I was of course lucky, that there were two things I already had going for me: And this really made some things click for me.Īt the time, I had heard people play chord melodies, especially Scofield and Wes Montgomery, but I hadn’t thought about doing that myself, then I realized that it could be fun to try and do that with this song which I had already played the chords of many times though I didn’t know it by heart.
My favorite maj7 voicing at the time was the basic root position maj7 (Cut in – Incredibly Hip and Advanced, I know….) and when I played through the chords then I realized that the melody was the top-note of that chord in the first bar. I was bored with the arpeggios and scales, so I started flipping through the real book looking at the songs when I saw Misty in there, so I decided to play that. A few months earlier, I had bought a real book which at the time was an incredible source of information since this was before the internet and online resources, it was all books and cds, and I hardly had any when it came to Jazz, in fact, the only thing I had was the real book and 5 or 6 jazz cds, which were mostly Scofield and a little Charlie Parker.ĭuring my stay, when we played, a friend of mine always wanted to play Misty, because he had a Dexter Gordon version of that song that he really liked. It was in June and I was sitting outside in the sun practicing, something that I am sure that you can tell that I don’t do often. I wasn’t very far in learning, but having the time to practice and play with others for that long was of course incredibly useful, and it was a part of what I used to prepare for getting into a school to get a degree in Jazz performance, which I did in The Hague a few years later I had spent 8 months practicing and trying to learn Jazz after getting my bachelors degree in Mathematics at the university.
I was finishing a stay at a folk high school, which is really a Danish thing, a type of boarding school for adult education. I sort of stumbled my way into chord melody, and weirdly enough the first song I ever made a chord melody arrangement of was actually a song that I don’t really like, and when I made it I had never heard of Barney Kessel and Joe Pass who later became my main inspirations for this. You want to explore all the amazing colors and embellishments that you can add to the music. WebRings Copyright © 2004 - 2012 Mone圜hords.I think that the most beautiful way to work with Jazz harmony is to work on chord melody, the type of playing you hear from Barney Kessel and Joe Pass where the melody is used as a foundation that you can add amazing chords to, but you do need to work on it the right way to really get all the benefits, You don’t want to just play something from paper trying to make your way from chord diagram to chord diagram.
#Jazz guitar chord melody transcriptions pdf pdf
This free 65 page pdf book contains 42 chord-melody arrangements in standard notation. Video Chord-Melody Arrangements & LessonsĤ2 Chord Melody Arrangements for Solo Guitar The Birth Of A Chord Melody (Guitar Noise)Īrrangements and Transcriptions (David Oaks)Ĭhord Melody Solos by Barry Galbraith (Andy Polon)
Solo Guitar with Chord Melodies - Part I (Guitar Noise) Play a Jazz Chord Melody using a Guitar Pick (Guitar Noise) Mastering Chord/Melody: The Basics (WholeNote) Introduction to Chord-Melody (Guitar Principles) To get you started, below is an example of a possible chord-melody sketch for the A section to Hoagy Carmichael's 1930 standard Georgia On My Mind in the key of C.Į-0-3-|-|-5-|-|ī-0-|-5-3-|-5-5-5-|-3-1-3-| The best commercial site is Chord Melody Guitar Music.
There was also an earlier article in the July 1976 issue of Guitar Player entitled "Chord Melody" by Arnie Berle. There was a great article in the October 1994 issue of Guitar Player entitled "Chord Melody Concepts" by Joe Pass. Although mastering this form of guitar playing is very difficult, a well-rounded guitarist should have at least a basic understanding of this guitar style. Chord-melody is the approach to guitar playing where both the chord and melody are played at the same time.
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