Andy Timmons - How To Play 'That Day Came,' Part 2
Last month, Andy Timmons taught us the first eight bars of his song "That Day Came," released originally on his 2016 album, "Theme from a Perfect World." In this lesson, he picks up the composition from bar 9 and continues through the next eight bars, up to bar 16.
Transcript
00:00 (rock music)
00:02 - Hey everybody, Andy Timmons here.
00:19 Welcome back to Melodic Muse for Guitar World.
00:21 And we're gonna continue looking at my tune,
00:23 That Day Came.
00:24 Really kind of discovering ways of having a melody
00:27 and supporting it with dyads and chords
00:29 to fill out the harmony.
00:30 So let's get into it.
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01:04 Now we're modulating into essentially F major at this point.
01:08 There was a little common tone modulation
01:11 after we get from that A major.
01:15 I keep the E, it's still the melody on the top.
01:18 But I move the rest of the triad up a half step.
01:22 So that gives it a B flat lydian sound.
01:24 There's no major seventh in it,
01:25 so essentially it could just be like a B flat five.
01:28 B flat, flat five.
01:29 There's a regular B flat major triad,
01:33 just lowering that one voice.
01:36 It's a really nice tension chord.
01:38 Then I resolve it.
01:42 So the melody.
01:43 (guitar music)
01:46 But the harmony over that's gonna be B flat
01:52 with that flat five down to G minor.
01:55 To F major.
01:57 So by this point of the tune,
02:00 my bassist Mike Dane is providing the roots.
02:03 So I don't necessarily always have to cover that.
02:05 But what I do, I do play this full chord here
02:08 on that B flat lydian.
02:09 And then I voice lead up.
02:12 Now again, choosing very carefully
02:17 what finger I'm gonna use
02:18 and how I'm gonna end up supporting that harmony.
02:21 With the bass in there, I don't necessarily have to do it,
02:23 but if I'm playing solo for you, I will add that root by.
02:26 (guitar music)
02:30 But even without that, once you hear this.
02:31 (guitar music)
02:34 That's the melody.
02:40 And even without the supporting harmony,
02:44 of course I'm familiar with the tune more than you are,
02:45 but I hear that harmony implied
02:47 in just how I'm voice leading.
02:49 (guitar music)
02:51 But here for the purposes.
02:53 (guitar music)
02:55 Because it's more of a solo piece right now,
02:58 give it just the harmony.
02:59 All I needed was the root
03:01 because then the melody is the third.
03:03 So that's always gonna give you the tonality,
03:05 the sonority of that chord.
03:07 That's all you need, man.
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03:11 So I'm essentially running, these are like tenths.
03:16 It's, I always forget what that interval is.
03:19 I'm just having the root and then up a tenth from there,
03:22 which is the third, up an octave.
03:24 (guitar music)
03:28 I tend to work those out all over the neck
03:29 because that third is a beautiful.
03:31 (guitar music)
03:34 Many songs have been written, at least by me,
03:36 with just those, with that interval.
03:38 It's such a beautiful, beautiful sounding thing.
03:40 So I'm employing that.
03:42 (guitar music)
03:44 Just giving that harmony, just that root.
03:46 (guitar music)
03:49 I just play.
03:51 (guitar music)
03:53 Because I want that note to sustain,
03:56 but here I am just giving just the flavor
03:58 of that chord by including the root, right?
04:00 So.
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04:04 It's really just lightly kind of giving.
04:09 (guitar music)
04:12 So it's essentially gonna be the same melodic content
04:18 up an octave now.
04:19 I've stated the melody.
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04:23 Then there's a little connector.
04:26 (guitar music)
04:28 And there's that darn pinky playing most of the melody
04:33 there as I get to the top.
04:34 This is all just a run up of F major.
04:36 (guitar music)
04:38 Right out of, I'm always kind of visualizing the chord
04:42 that I might be playing with,
04:43 and it's just out of this F major pentatonic.
04:45 (guitar music)
04:48 Same chord as this.
04:54 And I'm just supporting the melody up here.
04:57 With only just the fifth and the root.
04:59 You've got the note F and B flat.
05:01 That's all we need, man.
05:03 You really hear that tonality.
05:04 (guitar music)
05:07 And as I play the melody and resolve it,
05:09 it's just that upper part of that common bar chord.
05:14 Try it.
05:14 (guitar music)
05:17 Same melodies.
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05:27 I might have fingered it differently in the play through,
05:30 but that's gonna be a better way to voice it.
05:32 (guitar music)
05:34 Now, the harmony at that point is F major,
05:41 but I'm resolving to that melody note of A.
05:45 (guitar music)
05:48 And the next melodic content is really just an arpeggio.
05:52 So I didn't really find it necessary
05:53 to give the listener that sense of that root in there.
05:57 Yeah.
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06:01 Then we're gonna modulate back to F sharp minor.
06:10 How are we gonna do that?
06:11 (guitar music)
06:13 So after that F major.
06:16 (guitar music)
06:22 That's all this F major arpeggio.
06:23 (guitar music)
06:25 Down to C sharp,
06:27 (guitar music)
06:28 which is gonna be the dominant chord taking us back to,
06:31 and I'm just arpeggiating that.
06:33 (guitar music)
06:35 But including the flat nine,
06:39 which on a dominant chord, especially leading to minor,
06:41 is one of my favorite sounds.
06:43 (guitar music)
06:45 That leads melodically down to that C sharp,
06:49 which is the fifth.
06:50 (guitar music)
06:51 F sharp minor.
06:52 (guitar music)
06:55 And then I go back into the melody
07:02 down the octave this time.
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