Twinkle Twinkle

Twinkle Twinkle. Not the most rock and roll of melodies, I understand, but this is the first one where we're going to be sliding up to a higher location on the fretboard, basically a different position on the neck. Uh, and also this is another great example where we're essentially walking down a major scale again, in this case, it's the C major scale again. Because we're in the key of C, and this is another one where we'll also have the chords melody arrangement, um, so playing the chord at the same time as the melody in the follow-on course from this My Full Fingerty course. So the first note here is the C note, first finger, first fret of string two. And we play um this note twice. It's then 3rd finger, remember that this side, and we're 3rd fret. On string one, play that note twice as well. Remember being diligent with which fingers we use at this hand. So middle. So 3rd finger. We then slide. Now you can pick and slide at the same time to get this sound. Which is pretty cool, it's a little bit of a uh kind of Hendrix style. Um, or we can slide and then pick when we get here, which would sound like. Like that. Either way, I am sliding, I'm never lifting the pressure or lifting my finger from the string. But it's a very different sound going from. That to. Very different sound. If we can, I'd encourage. This one. Where we pick at 3rd fret and slide to 5th, if possible. We pick 5th again and then finish on 3rd fret. So we're sliding and coming back. In total, this would be 34. One more time. Then from here, which would be our G note. Um, we'd then walked down the major scale from the first fret of the thinnest string of string one. Playing each note twice. To the open. Third fret. And then the 1st, which comes down from the G. Just going backwards in the alphabet, G, F, F, E, the Open Estring. D And C. So we have C, D, E, F, G. This note is an A. And they're all part of that C major scale, which is taught on the website. And let's just have a recap through that top line one more time. This first line is exactly the same as the final one as line 3. We'll work through line two separately. From the top, 34. Then to the first finger, walking down the major scale, playing each note twice. Finishing on the first finger. And let that one ring out a little bit longer. The second line, it's pretty straightforward, to be honest. We're just walking down that major scale again, playing each note twice, but this time from the C note. Here we're paying a little bit more attention to what the letter names are, and this is the importance about the key of C. That there are no sharps and flats in it at all, so every note we play is never going to be a C# or anything. The key of C means it will be C D E F G A B C. All the naturals. And here we're coming down from the G note at third fret. So we have GG. To the F note. E And then D Playing each note twice apart from the last one. This would happen twice, so let's do it together, 34. Last time The final line, same as the 1st, 34. There's the slide. Walking down the major scale from F. Then we can either just play the one note, um the the C note, or strum the C chord for that last. Last thing we play in the song when we end on the chord, it just sounds a little bit more finished. Um, let's go from the top. Fairly straightforward, but we're paying attention to what the letter names of the notes actually are, uh, from the C major scale. From the top. 34. Slight Second line, walking down from the G note. Same again. Final line End on the C chord, strum with the thumb. From string 5 One final thing, at bar 6, we have uh the 3rd finger, um, playing the D note, and then going down to play the 3rd, the 3rd fret on string 2, and then at string 1. Now we can employ this little rolling technique. Which is really handy. It means It means that we can keep this one ringing out. We only have one string ringing out at a time, you'll see a lot of uh more advanced players doing this kind of thing. It's a really handy tip just to add that in at that single bar at that point. Um, but that's how to play Twinkle Twinkle. I hope you'll follow on to learn some more melodies in this course and the next one where we'll cover a full, uh, chords melody version of this song.