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Hi everyone,

Today's Target and Pay Per Lesson release is now live, Father Figure by George Michael.

Father Figure is a song taken from George Michael’s Grammy Award winning debut album ‘Faith’, released in 1988.

This lesson is based on an acoustic arrangement that Michael performed at a concert in 1996 at Three Mills Studios
in London, for MTV Unplugged.

Besides going through the progression, the colorful chords and the strumming, also done in double time, we mainly
take a look at how to play the beautiful signature melody line which appears in the intro, interlude and outro.

The latter is by far the hardest part to play, since it requires quite a bit from both hands, but the rest of the song is
relatively easy.

The song in in the key of A, mainly using major chords with an occasional twist to minor. The guitar is capoed on the
first fret, and puts it in the absolute key of Bb.

It uses the very exotic sounding Jewish scale, ‘Ahava Rabbah’, for the signature melodyline, also known as the
Phrygian dominant scale, or the 5th mode of the harmonic minor scale. For example, the popular Jewish tune ‘Hava
Nagila’ is based on that particular scale. A segment which elaborates a little more on that is included.

Enjoy this level 5 song!

http://www.totallyguitars.com/target-so ... .html#song

Love this!

TGNess,

Just watched the segment on the Jewish scale. Gosh that soundsgreat and really interesting stuff. You had me giggling by the way.

LOVED your playthrough. LOVE the melodic intro (etc).

I'll be checking out more later.

Beautiful song, gorgeous sounds.

Thanks teach. I love the way you bring us new things.

X

Shel

Great!!! Thank you!! :cheer:

neverfoundthetime wrote:

Love this!

I find it a górgeous scale for sure, exotic, mysterious and in this case sensual as well. Oh btw, why were you giggling????!!!

It's an interesting song to play, very easy on one hand and definitely not so easy on the other. Really pleased to hear you liked the melodic intro on the guitar. I thought it had worked out nice as well. But hey, chances could be that it's just me. :laugh: :laugh: As always, loved to read your comments on both the lesson and the play through. I've done my best again. You're my sweetest fan! :cheer:

Big hug! xoxo

Ness

michelew wrote:

TGNess,

Just watched the segment on the Jewish scale. Gosh that soundsgreat and really interesting stuff. You had me giggling by the way.

LOVED your playthrough. LOVE the melodic intro (etc).

I'll be checking out more later.

Beautiful song, gorgeous sounds.

Thanks teach. I love the way you bring us new things.

X

Shel

Vanessa Wrote:

Michele ....You're my sweetest fan!

Vanessa watch out for the bass player Sour !!!

:laugh: :laugh:

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OMG!!!! My oh my Dermot!! :ohmy: :ohmy:

:laugh: :laugh: You better be careful, I'd say. B)

thereshopeyet wrote:

Vanessa Wrote:

Michele ....You're my sweetest fan!

Vanessa watch out for the bass player Sour !!!

:laugh: :laugh:

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Vanessa :ohmy:

It wasn't me :dry:

I think TG's been hacked again !!!!
:woohoo:

I don't post stuff like that .... the penance is too steep !!!

Mind you it put a new meaning to "Down Under" !



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Vanessa Wrote:

You better be careful, I'd say.

Oh Dermot! You really are one of a kind. :woohoo:

Well if I turn sour and become ripped, I could definitely live with that. Watch out Dermot, who knows what this scary, wicked and ripped bass player will be capable of then.

Crazy man...

Michele Wrote:

Well if I turn sour ....

Never !!......... You are the sweetest .... ask the mirror

I hope you have a great time at the IGC, that's about 19 hours flying time
and 300,000 hours of fun :dry:

I'm just jealous

Dermot