Alternative Arranging
Melody in the Bass
The following arrangement of Greensleeves places the melody in the bass, leaving the top strings free for harmony notes. The harmony notes are selected from the given chord for each bar.
Arpeggio Style
An extension of the previous arrangement is to play it in an arpeggio style, as illustrated here.
This arpeggio style can also be applied to arrangements with the melody as the top voice. Try the following arrangement of Amazing Grace.
Alternating Bass Styles (* Time)
The following arrangements of a turnaround and a 12 Bar Blues illustrate the use of an alternating bass line to accompany a melody. A bass note is played on every beat and alternates between selected chord notes.
This arrangement is a further example of two part writing with the melody notes having stems pointing upwards.
The sixteenth notes, as introduced in Waltzing Matilda involved the count "1 e and a".
When a dotted eighth note and sixteenth note are played together the count is as such:
This count is illustrated in the Tablature on the following page.
Turnaround
This arpeggio style can also be applied to arrangements with the melody as the top voice. Try the following arrangement of Amazing Grace.
* See Appendix Four.
12 Bar Blues
This arpeggio style can also be applied to arrangements with the melody as the top voice. Try the following arrangement of Amazing Grace.
Melody With Clawhammer Accompaniment
The following arrangement uses the clawhammer fingerpicking style to accompany a melody.
