Through stepbystep creative exercises and my personal coaching, youll learn to express yourself creatively in chord melody style on the guitar. Every e on the guitar has an f one fret above it, and every b has a c one fret above it. Dont get around much anymore ellington with images. As his proficiency grew, he spent many hours listening to the music of legendary guitarists django reinhardt, joe pass, and johnny smith. I played your transcription of bye bye blackbird but as i was trying to play chord melodies through other standards it was a bit difficult to find voicings which would be comfortable to play. This arrangement by michael sweeney is an authentic adaptation using the. With guitar tablature, standard notation, chord names, performance notes, guitar notation legend and introductory text. The alternate voicingfingering is not a whole lot easier. The term jazz guitar may refer to either a type of guitar or to the variety of guitar playing styles used in the various genres which are commonly termed jazz. The chords of a guitar can be if music is your middle name, then musical instruments are sure to adorn your room. I can show you my entire method for chord melody, but wed have to do it via online video chat lessons.
Jazz guitar tab books, instruction dvds, chord melody. Pat martino blue bossa solo page 1 jazz guitar lessons, acoustic guitar. To learn reading the chords of a guitar, one must have the basic knowledge on what a chord is and how is it produced. Thelonious monk blue monk sheet music leadsheet in bb. Solo part,tablature sheet music by thelonious monk. Uppercase is a major chord, while lowercase is a minor chord. This course with tabs, standard notation and chord diagrams runs in progressive steps. In a sentimental mood jazz guitar chord melody gibson l5 duration. Learn how to play misty, a great and funtoplay jazz ballad. With guitar tablature, standard notation, chord names, performance notes, guitar notation legend and introductory. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Once you have learned this, you have internalized the two most important elements of the tune. Generally, it is easier for beginning guitar students to learn voicings from chord diagrams rather than from standard notation.
Blue bossa for jazz guitar chord melody guitar strumming patterns, free guitar. Fingerstyle blues guitar lessons learn fingerstyle blues. Let me know what you think of this article by leaving a comment below. Jan 16, 20 heres my straightforward solo guitar arrangement of round midnight written by thelonious monk. It is simply a picture of a guitar fingerboard with the. Jazz guitar chords, bill evans, thelonious monk, me now, transcription, ask me, music. B e 7 b f7 b b 7 e e 7 b f7 b f7 f7 b f7 blues 1 blue monk thelonius monk. This is often one of the first 12 bar blues tunes that a jazz musician will learn. Jan 01, 2016 chord melody guitar playing is an excellent way to play jazz on guitar, either in a jazz guitar solo context or in a band, and can open up a whole world of possibilities for you as a guitarist.
The jazztype guitar was born as a result of using electric amplification to increase the volume of conventional acoustic guitars conceived in the early 1930s, the electric guitar became a necessity as jazz musicians sought to. Music of thelonious monk stefan grossmans guitar workshop. Comping refers to playing chords underneath a songs melody or another musicians solo improvisations. Born on december 30, 1965, in long island, new york, he began playing guitar at the age of five. Sale ends midnight march 1st need help choosing the right guitar book or video. Blue monk the jazz blues blue monk, written by thelonious monk, is a great vehicle for looking at different ways to use the thumb in fingerstyle blues. Thelonious monk sheet music to download and print world. Blue in green jazz guitar chord melody by miles davis. Round midnight jazz guitar chord melody by thelonious. There are alternate chord voicings available at the end of each chart. The thelonious monk classic arranged for jazz guitar. Monk s countermelody is worth learning and using as part of your arrangements.
On these parts, you use the aeolian aka natural minor scale. 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. With famous fingerpicking guitar solos from the golden era of american pop music sggw124 and his tracks on i got rhythm sggw3 ton expanded his interests to include swing tunes of the 20s and 30s. Baker iv in washington, dc in 1949 and grew up in richmond, virginia. Partition gratuite blue monk, free jazz scores partition. Chord melody songs for low g ukulele chord melody songs for low g ukulele. The great jazz standard blue monk for jazz guitar now with audio and pdf with chord melody, solo, and more. Employing the chordmelody format, ukulele mike lynch has released yet another collection of classic best loved songs and hymns.
Available for purchase only in the united states leadsheets typically only contain the lyrics, chord symbols and melody line of a song and are rarely more than one page in length. Robert conti big city blues guitar dvd course on sale now. Chord melody for guitar part 1 in this lesson i am trying to give you a few approaches to come up with your own chord melody arrangement for a song. If you know what that means, you can see that this book is for serious guitar players only. Jazz guitar playing styles include comping with jazz chord voicings and in some cases walking bass lines and blowing improvising over jazz chord progressions with jazzstyle phrasing and ornaments. Welcome to our archive of some of the most popular jazz standards for jazz guitar.
Jazz guitar tab books, instruction dvds, chord melody solos. Try singing or whistling the melody while playing the chord roots in the left hand. Chord melody standards for guitar and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Tons first record, famous ragtime guitar solos remains a classic in the field. Feel free to adjust the rhythms shown below to add more feel. On guitar, a chord melody is an arrangement of a song that includes both the melody and the harmony chords simultaneously. Learn to masterfully combine jazz chords with walking. So, as you would expect, thelonious monk chord voicings have a bit of bite read dissonance. Jazz guitar chord construction thelonious monk institute of. Here are the chords and the scales you can use to solo over the chord changes.
Feb 07, 2018 7feb2018 blue monk by michael drexler on soundcloud. 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. The music of thelonious monk arranged for fingerstyle guitar is a unique dvd lesson that only duck baker could have put together. I thought about getting one of joe pass books but the guitar tuning wouldnt work with my 6 string. In this jazz guitar lesson you will learn how to play the melody and the chords of the famous jazz standard autumn leaves. I have purchased a lot of books on jazz guitar chord melody playing. Composed by thelonious monk, arranged by gary wittner. Some of the material here is part of the git rhythm level iii core class, which bruce also wrote and this book could also be used as a nice followon to rhythm guitar the complete guide. Thelonious monk sheet music books hard copy thelonious monk sheet music digital printable. Jazz blues lesson available via chord yoga guitar online learning platform.
Few jazz composers have created a body of work as imaginative and offbeat as that of thelonious sphere monk 19171982. Start with the major scale, and you can always figure out what the notes are in any chord, scale, or melody when given the scale degrees. I added the chord analysis and a possible fingering if you have any improvements, please let me know in the comments. This is one of the best solo guitar jazz arrangement books ive ever bought. Monks countermelody is worth learning and using as part of your. The first part focuses on harmonized scales that can be used to create chord melody, but the real meat an potatoes of this book are the studies in the second half. Learn to play guitar by chord tabs using chord diagrams, transpose the key, watch video lessons and much more. These are my personal guitar covers with tab, sheet music my video tutorial and pdf. Thelonious monk for guitar paperback march 1, 1999.
Blue monk melody and chords on guitar, jazzblues youtube. You will learn a chord melody arrangement and how to solo over mistys chords backing track. Each song includes chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics. This arrangement of monks mood is a wonderful treatment in a classic solo guitar setting, a striking counterpoint to sharps approach. This great collection features all 194 songs written and sung by the beatles, specially transcribed here for strumming guitarists, from the actual recordings, in the original keys. Thelonious monk sheet music books scores buy online. Born to be blue guitar chord melody sheet music for guitar. Instead of playing alternating bass or a steady pulse, youll use your thumb to play a harmony line with the melody. Round midnight jazz guitar chord melody by thelonious monk. Blue monk solo jazz guitar chord melody with tabs youtube. Frank vignola frank vignola is considered to be among the top rank of guitarists on the music scene today. Thelonious monk chord voicings the jazz piano site. Contains printable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file.
Born to be blue guitar chord melody sheet music for. Introduction a chord is a set of tones producing a melody and is played on a guitar. Blue monk by michael drexler on soundcloud spartiti. Listen to the way thelonious plays a countermelody is his left hand during the last 4 bars of the tune. His teenage years were devoted to playing with rock and blues bands before becoming interested in fingerpicking guitar styles that he heard in local coffee houses. All the songs include the lyrics as well as the chord melody arrangement these are straight chord melodies, unlike dans other book asin. A guitar players guide to thelonious monk fretboard journal. For comparison, the thelonious monk fake book c edition which i also have, is basically a book of melodic heads, with the chord names, with some notations of horn, bass, and piano fills and intros, but of course there is no guidance whatsoever on useful fingering or voicings for guitar. Blue bossa is a 16bar tune and is in the key of c minor.
Jazz guitar chord construction thelonious monk institute of jazz online jazz handbook. With famous fingerpicking guitar solos from the golden era of american pop music sggw124 and his tracks on i got rhythm sggw3 ton expanded his. Through these tabs youll improve your technique learning many beautiful songs. The third in a series of chordmelody ebooks from ukulele mike lynch. The beatles for jazz piano songbook by the beatles. Note that no jazz standard complete chord melodies are included and emphasis is more on the chord part than the process of adapting a melody. You can alter chords the same way you alter scale degrees. Frank is a monster player in any genre jazz,rock, swing, blues,country even classical they are fairly basic but give a good grounding in how to do your own simple chord melodies, which he wants you to do.
Chord melody guitar playing is an excellent way to play jazz on guitar, either in a jazz guitar solo context or in a band, and can open up a whole world of possibilities for you as a guitarist. Chord melodies are often used in formats where guitar is the sole harmonic instrument. May 31, 2010 blue monk was written by thelonious monk. This solo guitar arrangement of a great bb blues by thelonious monk is an example of how to use passing chords voicings, parallel, diatonic.
Therefore, the voicings in this chapter will be presented in chord diagrams. 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 away. Theory guitarmusic guitarplaying guitaracoustic guitarguitar books. Solo jazz guitar standards 16 songs expertly arranged in chordmelody style. We think that you will find everything you need to get you started right here. In this first lesson i am not going to go in to a lot of detail with what extra harmony or voice leading you can check out. See below for the full table of contents ive also taken this opportunity to revisit some of my most popular fingerpicking pieces and rendered them as chordmelody arrangements. This page contains a collection of the finest acoustic fingerstyle guitar songs selected for their beauty and musicality. Solo jazz guitar chord melody arrangements 1 chris whiteman. The chords of a guitar can be if music is your middle name, then. Print and download round midnight jazz guitar chord melody sheet music. You can also use the c minor pentatonic scale or the c minor blues scale here.
Learn to play and improvise in chord melody style in this 12week online group course. Within the first few measures you get the following chord fingering. Duck baker guitar tab books, instruction dvds, solos. They have a semitone interval at the bottom of the chord and a 3rd on top. Jazz guitar chord construction thelonious monk institute. A literal copy of barry galbraiths handwritten chord melody arrangement. Gary wittner, meanwhile, has literally written the book on thelonious monk for guitar. Are there any chord melody method books which you would suggest. I received this book the other day and started working through it. In this blog post, i will walk you through a 3step process to. Thelonious monk is a bebop pianist known for his dissonant, quirky and asymmetrical style, rhythm and harmony.
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