Guitar arrangements: How to do them (3)

Now that we have the bass giving us some movement we'll look at some ways whereby we can get the harmony to move and fill in some of the blank spaces that are not taken up by bass or melody. The example I'm going to show you here is used alot by Martin Taylor. It reminds me of a more classical approach in which you arpegiate instead of playing block style.



This is a little more complex and requires some studying of fingerings to get it to sound fluid and uniform so take your time. Often when I come across a hard passage I'll learn it just two notes at a time and repeat it over and over, then take the next note and add it in. Go slow, Rome wasn't built in a day.