Everybody can hum "Ironic." Ask a room full of people to request "Missing The Miracle," though, and you'll get the kind of silence normally reserved for the words "let's split the bill evenly." This is the Alanis Morissette deep cut that lives three albums deep in the playlist, quietly being one of the most gorgeous melodies she ever wrote while nobody was looking.
So I did the sensible thing and squeezed it onto one guitar. This is a MelodyChords arrangement — the melody and the chords happening at the same time, on the same six strings, so you can perform the whole song solo with nobody else in the room. No band, no backing track, no awkward "who's got the vocal" negotiation.
How this chord-melody arrangement works
The trick to any MelodyChords piece is brutally simple to say and mildly humbling to play: the melody always lives on top, and the chord tones stack up underneath it. Your highest sounding string carries the tune your ear is following, your thumb handles the bass note, and whatever chord tones you can grab in between go in the middle — but never so loud that they drown the melody. It's basically three musicians in a trench coat, and you're all three of them.
The concrete takeaway: pick out the pure melody first, find each of those notes on the top strings, and only THEN ask "which chord is under this note, and how much of it can I reach without dislocating a finger?" Half a chord that keeps the melody singing beats a full grip that buries it. Once that clicks, the same approach unlocks nearly everything — it's how I built Make You Feel My Love and a small pile of others.
Is it harder than just strumming and singing? Yes. Do you get to look mysterious and self-sufficient at parties instead of asking someone to grab the chords? Also yes. Grab the tab PDF, take it slow, and if you want the Guitar Pro file and the original videos, they live on my Patreon.