Gouch dogs me, it's a lesson. Hey there, Likkenriffr, how are you doing? Welcome to another awesome lesson right here on Likkenriff, in which we'll discuss arranging songs and to finger style. How to arrange any song and to finger style. Now I want to be completely honest with you, this will also be a shameless plug for my arrangement course and my ur-training course, but I will give you all the answers, I'll give you a full road map, I'll give you an insight into my own process of arranging songs, and then you'll decide yourself if you want my help by purchasing the courses or not, or if you want to go edit a loan, which is completely fine. So arranging songs doesn't start by arranging songs, it starts in your ear, with ear training, you need a good ear, you don't need a strong ear, it's okay to search for the melody, it's okay to try and transcribe and try to find the melody on the neck and try to fit it into a chord shape and try to find the right expression, that's what creation is all about. But you need at least a good ear, a good musical ear that's trained on the guitar. By that I mean that if you hear a melody, you can immediately visualize in your mind's eye whether it's two frets apart, whether it's three frets apart, whether it's a minor scale or a major scale, you need at least that knowledge. Okay, in your ear, you need your ear to be a little bit trained at least, and then if your ear is not trained, you can start by either my ear training course or transcribing things on your own. Okay, and the arrangement process is a transcription process most of the time, even if you have the sheet music, even if you have the chords for the song, you still have to transcribe it, you still have to find your own way of playing it. And I have right here on Lycanreff already, four frets, a full course on chords around the neck, chord logic on the guitar, called finally understanding chords. Now that will help you visualize everything on the neck and for example, you have the same notes, okay exactly the same notes, not an octave apart, exactly the same notes in different places on the neck. For example, you have E, F sharp and G, you have it here too. It's the same notes, it's exactly the same notes. My guitar might not be perfectly tuned, but that's fine for the purposes of the demonstration. So it's exactly the same, and you also have it here. So if you have E minor, you already have three ways in which you can arrange it. You have this, you can do it like this, some, some like, which sounds different then, okay, it sounds different than open strings, you have it, and you can also do it like this, okay, or, okay, you can make a solo out of it. So you need some experience, that's the second step, you need at least some experience with finger style. You need to have at least a little bit of knowledge on how to operate the guitar in finger style. And a good way to gain experience in finger style is by learning finger style material, but learning it critically. Three finger style arrangement on this channel, you can take it, and during the lessons, the finger style arrangement lessons, I always explain my thought process behind the arrangement, why I chose a certain chord. I don't go too much in depth into it, because you know, you want to learn it quickly, but you can still have a critical eye for what my process is. For example, if I have, if you have a song with these notes, right, then the first thing you'll want to do is to transcribe this line, if this is what the singer is singing, you'll want to transcribe it. There you sound like this. If your chords, for example, are G, D, and E minor, and there are a lot of songs with that chord progression, then you need to have some experience with these chords in finger style and know the chords, you know, the notes inside the chord, the chord shapes, and the choices are different between different chord shapes. This sounds different then, but since you have this, then you can do, and add it to the chords. Now, I gave this example because it's an easy example, and I couldn't provide it on the spot, but this is practically what finger style arrangement is. The more experienced you are with the chords in finger style, and we go into that in the ear training course, of course, of course, recognizing the notes inside the chords and the connections between them and how to add notes to them, and how to recognize the scales that you can use. Once you have that experience, the arrangement process becomes easier. You can go the other way around about it, and actually try to arrange and learn that way. That's how I did it, but I should tell you right now, the more you try things yourself, the more audit I dectic you are, the longer things take. It's fun, but it can be a frustrating process. For example, if we have that, and we want to arrange it in a different sound, then we'll find the same notes inside those chords, and then we'd have a different expression. We can arrange it differently. We can harmonize it, and add different rhythmic patterns instead of... That's just three chords, G, D, and E minor. What happens if you have embellishments? What happens if you have... And at nine, what happens if you have a jazz minor ninth chord, with a seventh and the ninth? You need to learn how to hear those things. When you want to arrange something, I'd suggest that you start with songs you like. Again, that's a given, but you shouldn't try simple songs just because they're simple. You should try something you like because that will give you motivation to continue. Your first arrangements will probably take time, and they'll probably be simple anyway. Even if you have a lot of bass changes, a lot of chord changes, I mean, you'd probably want to start with bass and melody arrangements. Based on like this... That would be probably how you'd arrange the melody. You'd take the bass notes for the chords. Then after you're more proficient with it, you'll start adding the extra notes from the chords. So, that's the arrangement process, basically. You transcribe the melody, you add the chords to them, or transcribe the chords first, and then add the melody on top of them using your existing finger style experience. And your ear training. Everything starts and ends in the ear. It starts by listening, and then transcribing, and it ends with something that is pleasant to your ear. Then comes right back to music, to sound, to the air waves moving. That's the arrangement process. If you'd like my help, I'd be more than happy to help. The courses are at flakeinref.com slash courses, and I'd be more than happy to help. You can also have a skyplacin with me if you'd like after you learn the courses so I can show you the ropes. I'm here to help you. That's how I view the arrangement process. Other guitar players might see this differently, but I really don't see how that can be possible because it's still the same instrument, and music is always music. It's harmony and melody, and rhythm. Rhythm most of all. See you in the next lesson. Bye for now.