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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
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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" Files can be downloaded for $8.00 (buy me a cup of coffee and a snack?). Your...
“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....
Jim Hall’s “Bemsha Swing” Solo
In this video lesson I teach a great solo by one of my all time favorite guitarists...Jim Hall! It's off a 16 bar blues by Thelonious Monk entitled, Bemsha Swing. After playing the solo at tempo, I then teach it to you slowly, and explain what is going on measure by...
Minimalist Comping for Jazz Guitar
If you viewed "A Guide To Lead Sheet Chords When Comping", you'll recall my remark about keyboard players being the "Kings of the Jazz Jungle". I also mentioned the unwritten rule for guitarists when comping in an ensemble with a pianist...Stay out of their way! In...
A Guide to Lead Sheet Chords when Comping
Recently I noticed that most lessons on comping for guitar focus primarily on the "rhythmic" aspect. While this is important, I believe that the harmonic implications are just as important, yet often neglected when discussing this subject. So I decided to do a lesson...
Rhythm Changes: Why it’s required study for jazz
In the 1930’s George and Ira Gershwin penned the show tune, I Got Rhythm for their musical, «Girl Crazy». By the time bebop was born during the 1940’s, jazz musicians had already adopted this chord progression as their choice harmonic vehicle for the exploration of...
Jazz Guitar Articulation: from bebop to post-bop
Have you ever thought about what makes two jazz guitarists such as George Benson and John Scofield sound so radically different ? Most respond that it's due to their choice of notes. And yes that is true, but there are other defining factors that are just as...