How to Write Spanish Melodies on Guitar
BlitzGuitar Academy – Music Theory Lab
Another lesson from the BlitzGuitar Academy Module 4 – Music Theory Lab.
Today I will show you how you can write Spanish melodies using the A minor scale and the A harmonic minor scale.
This exercise is perfect for beginners and intermediate who wants to play around with few chords and create simple melodies on the guitar.
As we are focusing on Spanish music, we will be working on one of the most popular Spanish chord progression ever used: Am – G – F – E
This is a lesson from the BlitzGuitar Academy Module 4 – Music Theory Lab – January 2018
The Video Lesson
The Chord Progression
Spanish melodies are beautiful and always really inspiring.
They are also quite easy to learn (if you use simple concepts).
We will be creating these beautiful Spanish melodies over one of the most famous Spanish chord progression: Am – G – F – E
The first thing you should do is learn the chord progression and strum or pluck the chords for a while.
You must get used to the sound of each chord as well as how they sound together.
How to Create Spanish Melodies
One of the easiest ways to create beautiful sounding Spanish melodies is to start with a “Scale Fragment” over the chords.
The number one thing that really helped when I started creating my own Spanish melodies was to create a scale for each chord I would play.
We will be playing an A minor scale over the Am, G, and F chord and the A harmonic minor scale over the E major chord.
The secret is to play the A minor scale starting on the root note of each chord.
A minor scale starting on A
A minor Scale Starting on G
A minor Scale Starting on F
A Harmonic Minor Scale Starting on E
