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# 3 Steps - Triads, Melody, Roadmap

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Melody: Learn the melody to every song you learn. The answer is in the melody. Learn to use essential pentatonic melodies to create lines over basic triad changes.

Roadmap: Creating an outline of chord tones.

Please check out The Jam Band Primer and Leaving CAGED before you move on!

Best of luck, Michael

 

 

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