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Originally Posted by Nem
I know ive been blabbering on a lot about Tommy Emmanuel lately, but when someone inspires me, I just keep talking about them for days on end 
anyway, I dunno if anyones seen TE play, but he tends to hold a lot of chord shapes and pick out the melody line with the shape held down. is this something that plane talk teaches?
because id love to be able to play guitar like him one day, and ive kinda seen how important it is to be able to hold a chord shape and play a melody at the same time, because then your walking basslines would give a nice foundation for the melody given theyre in the same chord
from what ive read of planetalk, that seems to be the basic premise of the book? or am i wrong?
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You're right when you say that chords encapsulate any moment of a piece of music, nem. Bass lines, melody lines and chord tones are all the same thing, so knowing chords is about as important as it gets.
PlaneTalk makes it very easy to see chords for what they really are: entities that stretch the length of the fretboard at all times. That makes it easy to also see them disassembled into bass lines, or melody or harmony ... with lots and lots of practice, of course. There are no short cuts to getting your fingers and hands to work properly.