Chords for Avalon Chord Melody Lesson

_ _ _ _ This is the chord melody to Avalon.
Here's a little breakdown of it.
It starts on the 5 chord, a [G] C7th, we're in the key of F, and I chose for a substitution a [E] Gm7,
which is a common substitution for a [G] C7th, as most of you know.
There's a pickup note [C] that we put on the 5th fret, or the 1st fret of the 2nd string, either one is fine.
And then [Bb] bar the 3rd fret, _
[Dm] _ [Bb] so we're going to hold down these 3 for all 4 beats,
and the melody [Am] _
moves while the chord is holding down.
[Dm] _ You see the way I [Gm] do that?
I hold [Dm] it down, and then I just pick the melody note [Bb] while this chord is holding down.
As if you're on a piano and you hit a chord, and then you play the melody.
Okay, so, [Dm] _ [Gm] same thing with this minor 7th.
_ [Am] Minor 7th, single [E] note, C9 chord.
Okay, so in tempo that sounds like this.
1, 2, 3.
[Bb] _
[Dm] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [E] Right?
Chord, note, chord.
Because you don't always have to play a chord [Ab] on every note.
[C] Then, 5th fret [F] again, little F triad with the F in the melody,
and [Gm] then a Gm as a passing [F] chord up to the Fmaj7.
So the melody is_
[Am] _ [F] So triad, 2, 3, 4, [Gm] 1, 2, triad, [F] major 7th chord, [Gm] and that Gm acts as a passing chord.
[Gm] _
_ _ _ [F] _ [C] Okay, so, first 8 measures.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] 2, 3, [F] 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2.
2, 3, 4, 1, 2.
[C] Again with the single note on the 5th fret.
And [Gm] now, got a little cluster there, a closely voiced chord.
[Bb] Just [Gm] move your first finger up.
I'd finger it [E] like that actually.
1, 2, 3.
You can do 4, 3, 1 as well.
But then you can [Gm] go_
[Bb] _ Right, just keep these fingers [Ab] down and move the melody note.
[C] _ _
Okay? _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] Okay, single note [C] moving down to this little C7 without the bass note.
Then an [E] augmented [F] Cmaj7.
_ And again augmented_ _
Okay, see how nice that [A] sounds?
It's a great substitution [C] for a C7.
C7 is the [Ab] C augmented because it leads [F] into the 3rd of the I chord.
So, the first half.
[Gm] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ 4, 1, 2.
[E] _
3, [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
4, [E] 1, 2.
_ [F] 4, 1.
Now, here's a good_
Whenever you're going from a I chord [G] down to the 6th dominant, [D] like F to the 6th dominant, D7, you could_
[F] Right, go down chromatically.
[A] So, I take the [Ab] F9, [G] E9, Eb9, [Gb] and now we're right into the melody for the D9, the 2nd half of the [F] tune.
And the way I phrased it was 1, 2, 3, 4, 1.
_ [E] Right, a little swing in there with some anticipation.
[Ab] _ _ [Gb] Okay, same concept in the 2nd half.
We hold down the middle and just move the melody.
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
[Gb] Okay, [G] chromatic on the [Gb] Eb9 to the D9.
Okay, we can use chromaticism, especially when the melody is chromatic.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [Gm] Single note chord.
4, 1, 2.
Single note.
Get ready [G] for the Bb minor 6th.
Okay.
Then I use [Am]
just two notes at a time.
[C] The melody [Am] is_ _ _
[F] So_
_ You see the way I did that?
I just went [Cm] with the melody with the lower chord [Ab] tone.
So, the lower chord [F] tone is C.
Melody is F.
Lower chord tone is F, A.
So, _ _ [Am] now D7, the 9th.
_ And again, I'm going chord, note, chord.
And I anticipate that.
_ _ _ [Gm] Then note, chord.
Alright, G minor 7th.
You can do it up here or here.
It doesn't matter.
Either one is fine.
And [A] then a C13.
Either this [Am] one or this [Gm] one.
[Am] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ Either [Cm] one.
They both work and they both sound [F] good.
And then an F triad.
[Gb] Move up to [Bbm] a Gb.
[F] Major 7th because we're keeping the F in the melody.
_ A little ending.
_ [Gb] _
[F] _ Okay?
So, in time. _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [E] 1, 2.
[F] 2, 3, 4.
1, 2.
1, 2, 3, 4.
[C] 1, 2. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
2, 3, 4.
1, [E] 2.
[F] 2, [Gb] 3, _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
4.
1, 2.
Single [G] note.
1, 2, 3, 4.
1, 2, [F] 3, 4.
Two notes at a time.
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Em] Okay,