chord melody
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All Of Me - Guitar Chord Melody
- By Stef Ramin
- On 03/05/2020
- In Jazz Standards
- 1 comments
A new video is available on the YouTube channel. This is a chord melody arrangement with synced shapes for jazz guitar of the standard All of Me by Simons & Marks.
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Solar - Miles Davis - Guitar Chord Melody Lesson and Analysis With Tabs
- By Stef Ramin
- On 03/04/2019
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
- 0 comments
"Solar" is a jazz standard written by Miles Davis in the key of C minor with four tonal centers that are : C minor, F major, Eb major and Db major. Solar contains essential chord progressions as major and minor II V I. This lesson provides a short harmonic analysis and a chord melody arrangement for guitar with tabs, standard notation, chord shapes and audio file.
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5 Jazz Tunes Arranged For Chord-Melody You Need To Know
- By Stef Ramin
- On 04/18/2018
- In Jazz Standards
- 0 comments
Focusing on jazz standards is surely the best way to accelerate the learning process of jazz guitar, making sure to choose easy songs with a few numbers of chords and melodies that can be easy to hear, play and memorize. When learning jazz guitar, it's very important to spend time learning famous jazz songs, it is an essential part of being a jazz musician. Many guitar students are able to play a ton of chords, arpeggios and scales but they can't play a jazz tune mixing both the melody and the chords.Here are 5 easy chord-melody arrangements of popular jazz songs for beginning jazz guitarists. Each lesson is available for free as a YouTube video with guitar chord diagrams overlayed in real time.
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Beautiful love (Wayne King, Victor Young and Egbert Van Alstyne)
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Misty (Errol Garner)
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Moon river (Henry Mancini)
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Stella by startlight (Victor Young)
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Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma)
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Autumn Leaves - Easy Chord Melody Arrangement For Beginners - Tabs and chords
- By Stef Ramin
- On 03/31/2018
- In Jazz Standards
- 0 comments
How to Play Autumn Leaves With Guitar Chords?Autumn leaves is one of the most popular non-American jazz standards on pick-up gigs and records. It is a must-know tune for any jazz guitarist and a great choice when you want to play both chords and melody on guitar. Indeed, the chord progression is not difficult to learn and easy to play. This blog article provides an easy chord melody arrangement to play the famous jazz tune on guitar. This lesson runs in three steps :
- Listening to instrumental and vocal versions.
- Playing basic chords (drop 2 and drop 3 voicings).
- Learning to play the melody.
- Playing the chord-melody arrangement.
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Misty - Arrangement with chords & melody - Jazz guitar lesson
- By Stef Ramin
- On 12/03/2016
- In Jazz Standards
- 2 comments
Misty is a jazz standard written by Erroll Garner following a 32-bar progression in the key of Eb including some common chord sequences as II-V-I, I-VI-II-V. A very popular ballad that has crossed over genres of music for the past 50 years (1959). This post in analysis of this song reffering to the realbook including a youtube video lesson about a chord melody arrangement for jazz guitar.