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How Insensitive Chord Melody
In this lesson I teach you a fingerstyle chord melody arrangement of "How Insensitive" by one of bossa nova's most prolific composers...Tom Jobim! In several interviews, Jobim mentioned his admiration for classical composer Frederic Chopin, so it isn't a coincidence...
This Chord Will Revitalize Your Standards!
Did you know that there's a seldom used chord, that when used in the right places will breathe new life to those overplayed Standards? It's one the old beboppers didn't know about . I heard it for the first time in the playing of Allan Holdsworth, John Abercrombie,...
The Look of Love Chord Melody
In this lesson you will learn a finger-style chord melody arrangement of a popular composition by a prolific songwriter who initially made his mark in pop music during the 1960s. Although you don't hear his name that much in the world of jazz standards, I personally...
Phrygian Cadences
What do tunes like Miles Davis' "Nardis", Wayne Shorter's "Speak No Evil", and Chick Corea's "Spain" & "La Fiesta" have in common? That they all employ phrygian modal cadences, also the subject of this video! In this lesson, not only do I give you examples of both...
Dorian Cadences: Comping and Soloing Made Easy
This is the first in a 2 part series on Modal Cadences. In this lesson you will learn all about Dorian Cadences...what are they; how to identify them in many standards that you most likely already play; when and how to create them to add more harmonic motion to your...
All of Me Chord Melody
In this lesson I'd like to teach you not one, but actually 2 chord melody arrangements of "All of Me"...a super popular standard! The first arrangement is for solo fingerstyle guitar and the 2nd one is to be played with a trio or pianoless small group setting. So...
Take The A Train Chord melody
PDF & AUDIO DOWNLOAD: The Take The A Train download includes: a 7 page PDF of the transcription with both regular notation and TAB, 2 MP3s of the arrangement at regular and slow tempos, a Band In A Box file featuring a rhythm section, and a MIDI file of the solo...
Summertime Chord Melody
In this lesson you will learn a chord melody with walking bass arrangement of a timeless standard by George Gershwin: "Summertime". This one works great at any tempo and is shorter in duration than most standards. So if you've been shying away from learning some...
Green Dolphin Street Chord Melody
This chord melody lesson of Green Dolphin Street, features some impressionistic harmony, an Afro-Cuban montuno and some cool walking bass lines.If you've ever wanted to replicate on guitar some of those cool grooves that latin jazz pianists play, this arrangement will...
SLONIMSKY SYSTEM: 24 Permutations of a 4 Part Chord (Preview)
What do John Coltrane, Allan Holdsworth, Freddie Hubbard and Frank Zappa among several other great music innovators have in common? That they all claim to have studied and practiced using Nicholas Slonimsky's "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns". In this...
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise Chord Melody
This Lesson features a fingerstyle chord melody arrangement of "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise" with a walking bass. Enjoy!PDF & AUDIO DOWNLOAD: The "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise"download includes: a PDF of the arrangement with both regular notation and TAB, an...
“Have You Met Miss Jones” Chord Melody
In this video lesson I teach a modern chord melody arrangement of a great standard written back in the 1930's by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart..."Have You Met Miss Jones". Curiously enough, some even claim the bridge has a taste of Giant Steps, although Coltrane...
Blue In Green Chord Melody
Have you ever wished you could play on guitar some of those rich, colorful chord voicings, that you often hear in the music of jazz pianists like Bill Evans? I know I did for the longest time, however when I examined some piano transcriptions I found most of them...
Beautiful Love Chord Melody
In this video I teach you 2 chord melody versions of "Beautiful Love"! The first one is a finger style arrangement that you can play solo. If you've watched some of my previous chord melody lessons on "Wave" or "Satin Doll" , you've noticed that on the solo...
Satin Doll Chord Melody
For this lesson I've prepared not one...but actually two chord melody arrangements of Duke Ellington's "Satin Doll". I believe that this is one of those tunes that every jazz guitarist should have in his/her repertoire, as it is the perfect vehicle to practice and...
WAVE: Chord Melody Lesson
In my previous lesson I analyzed AC. Jobim's ,"Wave" and demonstrated how it is actually a 12 bar blues with an added bridge featuring the same changes as "Tune Up" by Miles Davis and the bridge to "Cherokee" by Ray Noble! In this video I use various concepts from...
WAVE: A blues disguised as a bossa
Last week I posted a video teaching "5 Bossa Nova Comping Patterns" I picked up in Rio de Janeiro. As a follow up I just posted what I believe is the ideal vehicle to practice those comping patterns over. I'm of course referring to Antonio Carlos Jobim's, classic...
5 Bossa Comping Patterns
If you've ever felt like your comping over those bossa standards doesn't groove, or you are bored of always playing the same rhythmic pattern for the entire piece, this lesson is for you! In this video I teach you 5 genuine bossa nova patterns I learned in Brazil....