Jazz Guitar Chord Melody Arrangement - In A Sentimental Mood By Duke Ellington

In this lesson, we explore Drop 2 and Drop 3 voicings for major 7 chords—two essential tools for creating richer, more professional-sounding harmony on the guitar.

In this lesson, we’ll explore 4 Levels of 2–5–1–6 Jazz Guitar Chords.

Whether you're a developing player building your jazz foundation or an intermediate guitarist looking to expand your chord vocabulary, these four levels will give you a structured path to stronger, more musical comping.

This lesson comes with a PDF (Give What You Want).

Here is a structured guitar lesson focused on harmonized major scale arpeggios and chords in the key of C.

It is designed for intermediate students but can be adapted up or down depending on technique and theory background.

Rhythm changes are a cornerstone of the jazz repertoire, offering a compact yet harmonically rich framework for study and improvisation.

In this study, we focus on the A section, examining practical chord approaches that incorporate inversions and common substitutions.

The aim is to clarify the underlying harmony while expanding your comping vocabulary in a musical, idiomatic way.

This lesson is about one of the most useful and colorful substitution concepts in jazz harmony, which is to replace an altered dominant 7 chord (7b9) with a diminished 7 chord.

You'll find here 4 easy exercises and a YouTube short for playing it on guitar.

In this lesson, you will learn how to harmonize the major scale in sixth chords and 6add9 arpeggios to add a smooth, jazzy flavor to your playing.

Free PDF available here.

Welcome to this guitar lesson on exploring the arpeggios and chords of the harmonic minor scale—a rich and expressive sound widely used in classical, metal, jazz, and fusion genres

In this lesson, we'll dive into how this scale builds unique chords and arpeggios, including the diminished and augmented types you won’t find in major or natural minor harmony.

You'll learn how to visualize these shapes across the fretboard.

Welcome to this guitar lesson, where we’ll explore a chord melody arrangement of the classic jazz standard Take The "A" Train by Billy Strayhorn.

This tune, famously associated with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, offers a perfect blend of swing rhythm and rich harmony—ideal for showcasing the beauty of chord melody on guitar.

We’ll break down the melody, harmonize it using jazz voicings, and focus on smooth voice leading to bring the tune to life as a solo guitar piece.