Ruby my satin shes funny that way somebody loves me. The am7 at the top is just a plain am easy enough to stick a g in there of course but just in general, this is more acoustic fingerstyle and less jazz chord melody to me it doesnt need to go much in that direction but a little more would be nice. Learn to play pro level, elegant sounding chord melody arrangements and youll rival. Welcome to the easy guide to chord melody sample pdf. Whats the rational behind bill leavitts fingering types. It teaches the requisite skills needed to play and create original arrangements, basic chord forms and inversions, chord substitutions, walking bass lines, and other tricks of the trade. This is a collection of my best solo guitar chord melody arrangements featuring jazz standards.
Chord melody download on rapidshare search engine chord melody phrases for guitar 0634029657, barry galbraith 42 chord melody arrangements solo guitar, complete jazz guitar method vol 3 mastering chord melody. Lost night when we love me love walked my odd my romance, our love is round midnich. Side by side is a popular song with lyrics by gus kahn and music by harry m. The easy guide to chord melody sample pdf welcome to the easy guide to chord melody sample pdf. It is a solo ukulele technique that allows you to play beautiful and complete song arrangements on your own, without the need for singing. Stacy mckee jazz guitar chord melody solos, arrangements. Dolphin dance chordmelody jazz guitar lessons watch. It has been recorded by many artists, but is probably best known in a 1953 recording by kay starr.
All of me chord melody jazz guitar lessons richie zellon. The first arrangement is for solo fingerstyle guitar and the 2nd one is to be played with a trio or pianoless small group setting. In this lesson id like to teach you not one, but actually 2 chord melody arrangements of all of me a super popular standard. The accompanying cd features recorded demos of the exercises and chord melody arrangements in. Harry woods, who practised songwriting only as a sideline, wrote numerous 1920s standards, including when the. Kevan tolleys chordmelody arrangements above is a video performance of kevan tolleys arrangement of when suuny gets blue.
Jazz chordmelody guitar arrangements here are pdf files to my official guitar arrangements lessons. Chord voicings on the top 4 strings level 1 1977022 download pdf. I play the tune straight from the sheet music or fake book. This chapter builds on the concepts youve learned in earlier chapters. Speaking of ted greene, check out this tribute site featuring many chord melody arrangements you can download in pdf format. This video course covers everything you need to get started or gain a fresh perspective on the tune.
All the arrangements have pdf files you may download one free sample below. Enjoy these playable, performancequality chord melodies of vintage standards. Autumn leaves is a famous jazz standard composed by joseph kosma and is known by both jazz players and casual listeners alike. Each song is written in notation, tablature, and with chord diagrams.
I will also post some arrangements and transcriptions from some of my former teachers and other great jazzfingerstyle guitarist. First of all, lets look at the full table of contents. Dolphin dance chordmelody jazz guitar lessons watch and learn. Guitarists usually play either chord accompaniment or melody lead. Jazz chord melody guitar arrangements here are pdf files to my official guitar arrangements lessons. Fingerstyle guitar chord melody tutorials over select jazz standards featuring a pdf download with regular notation, an mp3 backing track, band in a box file and midi file. We are not advocating that these chord arrangements are the only way to play a song. Now, lets work through the 5 steps for an awesome chord melody guitar arrangement. Although chordmelodies are typically played fingerstyle, the twentythree christmas chordmelody arrangements of wellknown.
Ukulele duets, arrangements, and solos gords uke blog. In this blog post, well provide some examples of how to play chord melody, singlenote solos, and comping ideas for the tune. Second, chord melody can refer to a solo guitar situation. Builds a rocksolid chord melody foundation chord melody has layers and levels to explore over time. Nardis is a true classic in the standards repertoire. Tims first ukulele song arrangement book is completely chorddiagrammed for standard uke tuning, gcea, so that the student can immediately play each song instrumentally in chord melody style. Following in the tradition of the widely popular massive 52 song chordmelody ebook one, this collection continues to enlarge the players library of more easily accessible solo ukulele instrumental arrangements. Get the source files pdf, finale and music xml for import into other music editors. If you dont see any interesting for you, use our search form on bottom v. But, as you become familiar with the territory which is the whole idea, these will. Arrangements are immediately downloadable to your ipad, ipod, or mobile phone. Chords for chordmelody playing part 2 1974 download pdf.
Chord voicings on the middle 4 strings level 1 19770226 download pdf. Each tune also comes with supplementary audio demonstrating everything in the pdf as well. Here is the list of my own arrangements in chord melody style with. The file extension pdf and ranks to the school work category. Chord melody archives page 3 of 6 jazz guitar lessons. Jazz guitar tab books, instruction dvds, chord melody. Arrangements and transcriptions david oakes guitar.
Tribute to william bill g leavitt alisdair macrae birch. On this page you can read or download ukulele chord melody arrangements in pdf format. Ive learned many of yours via your signature chord melody arrangements series and cannot thank you enough for removing the mystique and often highbrow pompousness associated with the genre. Chordmelody chordmelody is the approach to guitar playing where both the chord and melody are played at the same time. Christmas collection sheet music stacys beautiful jazz guitar chord melody solo arrangements of christmas and holiday classics are easy to read and learn since they are written in block chord diagram form with the. Use this knowledge to harmonize the melodies you pick out by ear. Kevan explains that these arrangements are meant to be played rubato and with individuality.
This pdf is an arrangement that i worked on during my lessons with ted in early 1991. New guitar tab books, instruction dvds, chord melody solos. Chords for chordmelody playing part 1 1974 download pdf. All of me jazz guitar chord melody arrangement on youtube. Here, we will provide you with lead sheets, basic chord melodies, chords and single note solos that you can begin applying over some of the most popular standards right. This second part will talk about transposing the melody into standard ukulele range and using inversions of chords that are up the neck. Chord melody is the art of playing chords and melody at the same time. Here are 5 easy chordmelody arrangements of popular jazz songs for.
Two versions are provided of each arrangement in the book. Demystifies chord melody when you hear a pro guitarist play a chord melody it sounds like magic, like something impossible to play. Also, if youre interested in sharing your arrangements of hymns and christcentered spiritual songs, this is a great place to do it. Welcome to our archive of some of the most popular jazz standards for jazz guitar. This will be a free site, all i ask is that you send me feedback on any of the information that will be posted here. Al korinek jazz guitar chord melody solos sheet music this unique collection of al korinek chord melody arrangements of jazz and pop standards includes 145 of als guitar solos written in standard notation with chord diagram helpers for the pickstyle guitarist. We began creating and collecting these charts in early 2002 so that we could play more tunes as an ensemble in a shorter period of time. Besides playing it then try to figure out how you see the chords and how the voicings are connected to the chord. Thirty seven songs total and they meet the needs of all levels of experience. Jazz standards for jazz guitar pdf sheet music, tabs, chords and soloing with audio examples.
Chord melody for guitar there is document chord melody for guitar available here for reading and downloading. Frank vignola filmed at the peter max studio in nyc for bob miles. Chords for chordmelody playing part 3 1974 download pdf. As it is a bit easier on the left hand, lets start with a band chord melody.
In the first part of this series i talked about some principles of chord melody arranging using the melody in the original vocal range with mostly open position chords the easy ones. Learn full chord melody and chord soloing arrangements in the style of joe pass, ted greene, and more. Written out chord melody arrangements will be regular additions. Chord soloing phrases in the style of wes montgomery, george benson, barney kessel and more. When i was teaching at berklee, and bill leavitt was my boss, i asked him that question. As always you can download the examples as a pdf here. Concepts i teach on chord melody 1 first thing i do when considering any tune for a cm. Use the download button below or simple online reader. At first, this will take a while 30 minutes 1 hour. Latin chordmelody guitar arrangements here are pdf files to my official lessons in the.
Daily excercise regimen all 6 steps should be practiced every day. This package contains 120 jazz guitar lines based on diatonic modes as mixolydian, dorian and ionian. Chord melody arranging concepts and full chord melody arrangements. Free tutorials and chord melody arrangements for jazz guitar. Although mastering this form of guitar playing is very difficult, a wellrounded guitarist should have at least a basic understanding of this guitar style. Misty chordmelody guitar arrangement jazz guitar thomas. Leavitt chord melody arrangements the yahoo jazz guitar group archive contains some adobe pdf files of chord melodies done by bill leavitt.
I love jimmy van heusens songs and youve exposed his fondness for chromatic movement and tomorrow, i shall be learning your great arrangement. You will be notified when new files have been added to this site. Solo guitar the term chord melody is confusing for another reason it can refer to two different playing situations. Chord melody arrangement basic chord chart single note solo. To give you some stuff to figure out and to make the arrangement complete ive given you an arrangement of the b part as well. If you simply want a collection of the most indemand standards, all arranged with contis signature chord diagram display just play the chord grids youre performing chord melody of the highest quality, then the signature chord melody arrangements are. With this course, you pull back the curtains and discover the secret to quickly and easily playing chord melody. These timeless tunes from the great american songbook and. Credit allows you to download with unlimited speed. Any title listed below is delivered instantly in a pdf download format. Chord chemistry a fantastic goto resource on chord melody guitar playing by the late great guitarist ted greene.
Christmas chordmelody arrangements mage music guitars. Click on a pdf file name to open it in a new tab window. Click below for free kevan tolley chordmelody arrangements in pdf format. Autumn leaves tutorial intro, chord melody, singlenote. This is the chapter youve been waiting for a stepbystep approach to creating chord melody arrangements. Chordmelody, however, is an approach to guitar playing where the chord, bass, and melody are played at the same time creating a complete orchestration.
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