To embellish the melody:
- vary the melody with bends, trills, and turns
- add grace notes, passing notes, and approach notes
- repeat motivs
First approach we learned: vary the rhythm of original melody.
2nd approach we learn now: next step is vary the melody itself by means of melodic embellishment and ornamentation
Melodic embellishment — the act of changing some of the notes in a melody
- instead of playing melody as written, add some notes of your own, thus creating your own unique solo based on the original melody
There are different ways to embellish a melody.
–some will come natrually to you
–some will take a little work
–they all involve adding notes before or after the melody’s key tones
Remember — even though you are embellishing the melody, you still want to empahsize themain notes of the original tune
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