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Chris Parks · Tunes on the guitar

My Ideal

Tune · 1:53 · On YouTube · In the lesson player

Chris plays the standard My Ideal as a chord melody on the guitar, about two minutes with no talking. It is a performance to listen to, not a lesson: an example of the kind of chord-melody playing his lessons on Barry’s scales of chords work toward.

Step by step

  1. 0:01Listen to the whole chord melody of My Ideal and follow how he harmonizes each melody note

Transcript

  1. 0:01[Music] do
  2. 0:59[Music] so [Music] so [Music] do
  3. 1:41[Music] you