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It's much more rewarding and improvement comes faster this way. Being a "do-it-yourselfer", I deeply believe in the power(s) of self-discovery. you must create your own chord melodies! Trust me on this. Reading complete arrangements of chord melodies from a book doesn't "cut it".

There's no right (or wrong) way to do it.

Be motivated to create your very own version of the tune you are working on.

A lead sheet of the tune is useful because of its visual nature (and because it contains just the basic info you need).

Having a "reference" recorded version of the song is the best way to go, always!

You must have heard the tune (recorded or live) many times already.

Have the melody, the lyrics, if any, and the chords in your ears.

You must know and love a song from which you'd like to create a arrangement for.

You can take a look and get general advice and guidelines from this page or go directly to the jazz standards page to get the website's own (prefabricated) standards arrangements. Personally, I like to see chord melodies (and such types of playing the guitar) as if I'm arranging for an orchestra that has six strings! We have to work on the melody and on the chords separately, and then combine them in one cool solo arrangement. So to define this way of playing jazz guitar further, we can think like piano players, where they "play the melody with the right hand, and chords with the left hand".įor guitar, there's a more work involved in playing this "guitar style" (in fact, the term chord melody itself is only used in the guitar jargon, and guitarists circles). We can't have our two hands on the keyboard at the same time, so to speak. :-) Thus, we cannot separate the chords and the melody that easily.

Jazz guitarists will say "I'm playing this-or-that song chord-melody style", as opposed to saying "I'm now soloing on this-or-that standard" or even as opposed to saying "I'm now comping on XYZ tune". It is in fact the harmonization of a melody (aka playing chords / harmony AND melody at the same time). Jazz guitarists use the term "chord melody" to describe the way they play a certain song. You should use the concepts from this lesson and work on applications (all by yourself) on any/all of the standards you wish to chord melodize. So, basically, don't just build arrangements, you should also learn the skill of creating chord melodies on the fly. And, by following the three steps on this page, you'll soon be able to play like this on virtually any standard. It goes without saying, playing guitar chord melodies and other arrangements like Ed Bickert, Lenny Breau, Ted Greene or Joe Pass requires some level of skills on the instrument. The result is a refreshing performance of the song at hand (when compared to playing just the melody on it's own, or just the chords "dry"). Basically, in this context, the player is responsible for both the melody and the harmony on a given tune, at all times. Chord melody style playing also means adding chords, fills, walking bass (and more) right under a melody line or theme. Typically, we perform this on jazz standards.Īnd this is the ultimate self-expression for jazz guitarists. Jazz guitarists perform this on any given song. Ĭhord melody means playing the melody and the chords simultaneously. Of course, this couldn’t be farther from reality! So I’m eager to hear your thoughts in the comments section down below.Harmonizing Tunes, Playing Solo Guitar, and More. If you check out the initial comments for it pinned at the top of the You Tube post, I was accused of creating an arrogant mockery and not having any respect for the original composition. Last week’s Beatles arrangement with Coltrane changes, to my surprise offended some viewers. This is the same problem the pioneering bebop musicians had with the early standards, many of which were originally popular ballads. This concept of taking songs from the classic rock repertoire and giving them a jazzier treatment isn’t always well received by everyone. It is a jazzy rendition of one of John Lennon’s most beautiful compositions recorded during his post Beatles career… Imagine! Hope you had a chance to check my previous video lesson in which I shared a chord melody arrangement of a Beatles tune…but re-harmonized using some Coltrane Changes! This week I am happy to bring you another Beatles related solo guitar arrangement.