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Andy Timmons taught us the first eight bars of his song "That Day Came," , "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.

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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.

00:32 (guitar music)

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00:37 (guitar music)

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.

04:01 (guitar music)

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.

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06:55 And then I go back into the melody

07:02 down the octave this time.

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Andy Timmons - How To Play 'That Day Came,' Part 2

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