Re: fingering melody notes vs chord position
Originally Posted by
RickPick
This is not so much a "what do you do?" question as a "How do you think of it?" question.
Doublestops have a certain ambiguity in them, because the same doublestop can be part of more than one chord. This is a good thing, it gives you the benefit of reasonable doubt.
Example: melody steps to a C (A course, 3rd fret). Now you doublestop that with an E (D course, 2nd fret) and play x23x. This can be either C major, your melody note being the root, or A minor, your melody would then be the 3rd. You can extend this doublestop into two different triple stops (223x or x233) which resolves the ambiguity into either full chord.
There are many other doublestops, e.g. the 05 (octave), the 22 (or any two equal frets, 5th), the 52 (3rd) etc.
Doublestops are planned and tried at first, then incorporated into the practise routine. They become a fixed part of a tune, but after a while this "development" of doublestops becomes second nature (by now, I hardly can learn a new tune without adding doublestops immediately).
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