“IT’S A MOOT POINT”
Melanie Faye
THIS SUBLIMELY SOULFUL r&b song showcases finger-style electric guitar sensation Melanie Faye’s highly creative and inventive approaches to composition and technique, as well as her musical depth and tasteful note choices for voicing chords and playing melodies.
The guitarist crafted most of the song’s parts by spinning colorful variations on the four-chord progression introduced in bars 1 and 2. No doubt inspired in part by Jimi Hendrix’s elegantly melodic rhythm playing and Stevie Wonder’s sparse but harmonically rich keyboard chord voicing approach, she mostly eschews the redundant octave doubling of standard barre chords. Instead, Melanie favors economical and sometimes
