Jazz Standards
Welcome, this blog section provides some studies with tabs, charts and chord shapes to learn how to play jazz standards on guitar.
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Solar By Miles Davis - 2 Chord Studies For Beginners
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2023-05-23
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Here are two easy guitar chord studies to apply over the jazz tune Solar by Miles Davis. The first one implies 3-Note chords while the second implies 4-note chords. Free PDF and YouTube Short video available.
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Jazz Guitar Chord Melody Arrangement - In A Sentimental Mood By Duke Ellington
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-12-20
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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This video with tab and diagrams is a chord melody arrangement for jazz guitar of the famous Duke Ellington's jazz tune "In A Sentimental Mood". The aim being to mix the melody and the chords together as a piano player would do.
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Days of Wine And Roses - Guitar Chord Melody Lesson With Tab
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-10-19
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This lesson provides a chord melody arrangement for guitar of the famous song "Days of Wine and Roses" written by Henry Mancini (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) for the movie film of the same name.
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Armando's Rumba - Guitar Chords
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-07-07
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This lesson provides a chord study with tab of the Latin jazz tune Armando's rumba by Chick Corea based on the Latin Real Book version in C minor. Here below you'll find guitar tabs corresponding to the four main parts of the tune (A-B-C-D).
The chords used in this arrangement are mostly seventh chords as min7, maj7, dim7 and dom7 (drop 2, drop 3 and rootless voicings) including basic triads (min, aug) and altered dominant chords (7#9, 7b13).
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Satin Doll - Chords and Scales For Guitar - Lesson For Beginners
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-03-22
- In Jazz Standards
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Satin Doll by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, witten in 1953, is one of the most famous jazz tune. It has been recorded by many jazz musicians as Wes Montgomery, Ella Fitzgerald, Mc Coy Tyner, Oscar Peterson and of course Duke Ellington himself. It has become a classic jazz standard, a must-hear, very popular at jam sessions.
This guitar lesson with chord shapes and scale charts explains how to play easy jazz chords and what basic scales to choose for improvising over Satin Doll.
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Satin Doll Arranged For Jazz Guitar - Video With Tabs
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-03-15
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Check out the latest video from the YouTube channel. This is a chord melody arrangement for guitar of Duke Ellington's jazz standard "Satin Doll".
This free lesson with tabs is intended for intermediate players who want to practice some drop 2, drop 3 voicings, walking bass lines, chords inversions and substitutions over one of the most popular jazz tune.
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Ryland By Julian Lage - Guitar Transcription (PDF)
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-11-15
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Here is a video transcription for guitar of Ryland by Julian Lage.
Music By Julian Lage From The Album Arclight, available via Mack Avenue Records:
AMAZON : Arclight Album
iTUNES: http://radi.al/JulianiTunes
Visit Julian's YouTube Channel
Buy Julian Lage Discography on Amazon
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Tangerine - Stan Getz - Transcription With Tabs For Jazz Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-08-26
- In Licks & Transcriptions
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Tangerine is a song written by Victor Schertzinger and Johnny Mercer, published in 1941. This is one of the most popular jazz standard. This lesson provides an arangement for jazz guitarists inspired by Stan Getz version.
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After You've Gone - Jazz Guitar Walking Bass And Chord Study
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-04-12
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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After You've Gone is a pop song composed in 1918 by Turner Layton. This blog post provides an easy walking bass lines and chords arrangement with tabs for guitar.
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All Of Me - Guitar Chord Melody
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-03-05
- In Jazz Standards
- 4 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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Wave (A.C Jobim) Guitar Chord Melody Transcription With Tabs
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-12-12
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This lesson provides an easy chord melody arrangement for guitar with tablature, standard notation and chord shapes of the bossa nova latin jazz tune "Wave" by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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10 Jazz Guitar Intros and Endings with Tabs and Audio Files
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-09-27
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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How to Play a Jazz Intros and Endings on Guitar?
There are mutliple ways of taking an intro or ending a jazz tune, the truth is that you can play whatever you want.
You can start from the V of the key, simply play the last 4 or 8 bars of the tune, try to incorporate a turnaroud and its several variations, the list is long....
You''ll find in this lesson 10 jazz guitar progressions with tabs, standard notation and audio files that work both as intros and endings for any jazz standards in C major.
Altough all these exercises are in the key of C major, it is possible and very important to transpose them in any key.
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Solar - Miles Davis - Guitar Chord Melody Lesson and Analysis With Tabs
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-03-04
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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"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 jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2018-04-18
- In Jazz Standards
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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 jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2018-03-31
- In Jazz Standards
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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. This guitar lesson provides an easy chord melody arrangement to play this famous jazz tune.
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How To Play Autumn Leaves - Jazz Guitar Chords - Advanced lesson
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2018-03-16
- In Chords / Voicings
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Autumn leaves is a 1945 song composed by French musician Joseph Kosma. The original lyrics are in French, written by Kosma but in 1947 Johnny Mercer wrote the English ones. Since that time it has become a very popular song and surely one of the most played jazz standards.
This song is in a AABC form (32 bars), very much appreciated by beginners because the harmonic progression is pretty simple to play and easy to understand. It covers a very important chord sequence found in jazz, the ii-V-I both in minor and major.
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10 Jazz Blues Tunes Every Beginning Guitarist Should Know
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2017-12-05
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
- 2 comments
Building Your Jazz Blues Repertoire
A big part of learning jazz guitar means building his own repertoire of pieces. Here is a list of 10 jazz blues songs every beginning guitarist should know.
This short list covers a range of jazz blues chord progressions and their different variations (form, tonality, Harmonic structure) with a brief analysis and also represents the most played jazz blues tunes at jam sessions.
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List of Jazz Standards and Keys
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2017-08-31
- 3 comments
A“standard” or “jazz standard” is referring to a popular music piece and/or jazz music composition that is held in continuing esteem and is frequently used in musical repertoire.
Many of these “jazz standards” were not necessarily originally jazz compositions. Music publishers include the term “jazz standards” in a description or a title they nearly always are referring to compositions used as the basis for improvisation or jazz arrangements.
You will find in this post a non-exhaustive list of jazz standards and their original keys to practice at home or in jam sessions.
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There Will Never Be Another You - Jazz Guitar Chord Lesson
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2017-01-20
- In Jazz Standards
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"There Will Never Be Another You" is a popular song by Harry Warren (music) and Mack Gordon (lyrics). It is one of the most known jazz standards and an indispensable study for any jazz guitarist. This jazz guitar comping lesson provides you different chord voicings (drop 2, inverted, rootless and extended chords) on the top four strings of the guitar to comp over this jazz tune. By the way, it will also give you some new ideas to support harmonically a soloist. Indeed, you may even try to apply these chord voicings to the tunes you are used to playing.
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Misty - Arrangement with chords & melody - Jazz guitar lesson
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2016-12-03
- In Jazz Standards
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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.