Music Lesson: "Being Here with You"

Overview

• Standard tuning
• Key: E

Opening Phrase

• "Now, I could have put the melody just over one string, but my whole approach is to pick through a chord and pick out the melody."
• Gets a little tricky in measure five:
  • Move the fingers in the right place
  • Transition to the third finger
  • Play the fifth fret of the third string
  • Repeat this section

Next Section

• At measure 16, it's tricky:
  • "You just got to watch it."

Key Changes

• In measure 21:
  • "You see how I'm moving the bar on the fourth eighth note of the bar?"
  • Note: Moving the bar (B, A, R, R, E) on the fourth eighth note of the measure (different spelling/meaning but the same sound).
• All of this repeats pretty normally.

Changes in Tonality

• In measure 33, I'm changing key:
  • Ending here in E tonality
  • Making an A chord, the five of D minor (in measure 34) , but in fact, I mean A minor.
• Watch out in measure 37:
  • Sliding back with the third finger
  • Again, A augmented

Fingering Techniques

• "Here again, watch the fingering."
• Rather than spreading it out, do a little half bar.
• Modulating back to E and back to the top, everything is pretty straightforward.

Conclusion

• At the very end:
  • It just pauses on those bars.
  • "I put a little virtual whammy where I'm just modulating the top very slightly and breaking up the E chord."

Final Thoughts

• "I think that covers it for 'Being Here with You'."