Harmony in music refers to two or more notes which are heard at the same time. And the way you indicate harmony on the stage is to write notes as a vertical stack like this. I'm sure you will have already worked out that to play this harmony on your guitar, you would simply strum your G, B and high E open strings. Now here's an example of a melody and harmony together. The melody starts with a low E, which can be heard by playing your low open E string. That's followed by the notes G, B, G, and E, which can be heard by playing your open G string, open B string, open G string, and open high E string.

That's followed with a chord or harmony made up of the notes G, B, and E, which we've already seen can be heard by simply strumming your GP And open high E strings. The next melodic phrase is almost the same as the first, but this time we have middle C replacing the low E. As you know middle C can be played on the third fret of your a string. The second harmony is the same as the first, just the notes G, B and E. Lastly, we have our low E note, followed by one last harmony which is identical to the first two harmonies. Here's how you play this melody harmony combination on your guitar. Let's have a look at how a few other basic chords will look on the stave. C major would look like this The Mona would look like this and he mana would look like this found out how these chords would fit on the stage by checking what notes were in each chord shape, and then mapping them out on the stage accordingly.

For example, with the E minor chord, the first note is the lower open E string. The second note is on the second fret of the A string. I found what that note is called by applying the chromatic scale from the open A string. Notice B, and it's the B on the stave found just above where the open A string would be located. The next note is on the second fret of the D string. So I applied the chromatic scale.

Notice E, and it's the E on the stave found just above where the D string is notated. There are two easy we have the open G string, the open B string, and the open E string. Next, we're gonna practice writing the melody harmony combination from before, as well as the C major, D minor and E minor chords. Plus, I'm going to give you a little challenge.