Reply To: How do you make your melody lines shine?

[Jan Sevareid]

Thanks Brenden. I feel that keeping the LH as a shadow works if I really put attention to it. Developing the same skill within the RH is much more of a technical issue. I try to improve through exaggeration – just hammering down the melody with the pinky while trying to calmly support with chord tones and extensions by the other fingers. It doesn’t sound nice, but I hope that it eventually will when I start to loosen up the exaggeration.