Assuming a tenor guitar tuned in CGDA (or possibly BbFCG a-la John Lawlor) vs a standard 6 string guitar.
What are the basic rules to form chord melody?
I am asking this because I naively thought that chord melody was all about playing the melody on the highest string (A on the tenor and E on the 6 string) and then find a corresponding chord that fits.
However I have been watching a few videos of RIP Eddy Davis and he tended to play chord melody as close as possible to the nut. In one of his videos he said that playing melody on the highest string is more suitable to the plectrum guitar than the tenor banjo.
While this is opening a new understanding for me, it also makes things more complicated.
Any input?
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