The Happiest Melody on Guitar

Simple Melody that Makes you Smile

What’s the happiest melody on the guitar? Today I will show you how to play a simple melody that sounds happy, fun to play, and perfect for beginners.

I was inspired by traditional African music, one of the most beautiful and inspiring music to listen to and play.

It sounds so positive and happy.

Today I want to share with you this simple melody that I came up with this morning while practicing over a chord progression in A major. Honestly, the simple melody could be a little bit better, but I didn’t have a lot of time to work on it.

I hope you are going to like it.

Grab your guitar and play along.

Enjoy.

The Video

The Chord Progression

This is one of the easiest chord progression you will find on the guitar.

A – D – A – E

The thing that makes this chord progression so happy and the simple melody so enjoyable is how we will play these chords using triads.

You see, guys, chords, and just a bunch of notes that sound good together, but they are not musical unless we make them.

We will be using an exciting right-hand approach that I call “palm muting fingerstyle,” We will mute the strings with the palm and pluck the strings with the thumb and index finger.

First of all, let’s start by analyzing the chord progression and learn how to play it using triads.

The Easy Triads

The first part of the melody will be played using three triads.

A major, D major, and E major

You can really decide to play the triads starting from any note, but we will follow a simple pattern where the chords are mainly played starting on the bass note.

Check the guitar diagram to learn the simple triads.

Palm Muting

One of the things I love the most about playing this music style is the “muffled” tone achievable with fingerstyle palm muting technique.

It is of paramount importance that you learn how to perform this technique correctly.

It is the same approach as the palm muting on electric guitar, with the only difference that we bill be plucking the strings with index and middle finger rather than use the pick.

Check the picture to learn more about the “Palm muting fingerstyle technique.”