Guitar Lessons With Tune In, Tone Up!

In guitar lesson 28, Dan and I look at how to arrange and develop the song we began to look at last lesson. We thought it would be useful to develop the guitar parts of this song and look further at how to arrange it. With lots of suggestions to support songwriters, we particularly focus on lead-ins, harmonising vocals and guitar parts, palm muting and using intervals to create dynamics. 3:30 Guitar parts and arranging 7:05 The opening riff and building in dynamics by doubling parts 9:45 Remember to strip back for the verse to make the chorus big 10:25 Lead-in, harmonised vocals & palm muting – The Foo Fighters, Pretender 13:50 Breaking up the verse to allow the song to breathe 14:30 Some ideas for skinnying the riff out 15:30 Thicker notes on thicker strings or more strings 16:00 Using intervals to harmonise two guitar parts 20:00 Quick recap 25:10 Developing a spacious and pretty guitar part for the verse 30:20 Tremolo pedal effect to create shimmery tone 32:10 Developing the chorus part 33:30 Explanatio