by Richie Zellon | Chord Melody
It Could Happen To You This is not meant to be click bait, so my sincere apologies if this title sounds as a cautionary warning! 🙂 It’s simply the title of my solo guitar version of a lovely standard written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Jimmy Burke which has been recorded...
by Richie Zellon | Chord Melody, Holiday Season
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas I hope you had a chance to check out my previous chord melody arrangement of Frosty The Snow Man. And since we’re still in time to learn one more for this season, due to numerous requests, I am excited to share another holiday...
by Richie Zellon | Chord Melody
Frosty, The Snow Man Here’s a lesson of a classic Xmas standard arrangement featuring some jazzy chord melody…Frosty, The Snow Man. If you get a head start on it now, you might get it down in time to play for Santa…that is, if you haven’t been...
by Richie Zellon | Bossa Nova, Chord Melody
Corcovado It’s bossa nova time again, and I’m back with a fingerstyle chord melody arrangement of the Antonio Carlos Jobim classic… “Corcovado” (a.k.a “Quiet Stars of Quiet Nights”). Throughout this arrangement I’ve tried to combine that cool bossa groove, with a...
by Richie Zellon | Chord Melody
The Nearness of You What do Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Norah Jones, James Taylor, Michael Brecker and Pat Metheny have in common? They’re among the dozens who have all recorded Hoagy Carmichael’s beautiful ballad…The Nearness of You. You can listen and...
by Richie Zellon | Chord Melody
A Child Is Born If you’re like most jazz guitarists, you probably don’t know very many standards in 3/4 time, especially when it comes to ballads. And if there is one I love and recommend you learn…it’s the Thad Jones composition “A Child is Born”....
