If youre playing a song that is entirely in one key your chords are going to get awful boring, awful soon. The complete compositions of thelonious monk, solo guitar. Included for each jazz standard is a bio, chord charts for c, bb, and eb instruments, a playalong, and popular recordings to help you learn it. Cross indexing makes this manual extremely easy to use and regardless. Lets start with a song that we are all familiar with. Use the download button below or simple online reader. The third in a series of chord melody ebooks from ukulele mike lynch.
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. Comping refers to playing chords underneath a songs melody or another musicians solo improvisations. In addition to all this content, you also get some good chord shapes to get you started on comping over the blues. Thelonious monk tabs, chords, guitar, bass, ukulele chords, power tabs and guitar pro tabs including blue monk, round midnight, straight no chaser, bemsha swing, misterioso. Generally, it is easier for beginning guitar students to learn voicings from chord diagrams rather than from standard notation. My thought has always been that electric bass is first and foremost within the guitar family of instruments, and if guitarists can do complex, emotional and interesting things with solo chord guitar, why cant bass guitarists. An introduction to effective use of melody guitar world. Blue bossa is a 16bar tune and is in the key of c minor.
The chord melody book for ukulele by guido heistek chord melody is the art of playing chords and melody at the same time. Jazz guitar tab books, instruction dvds, chord melody. You often see the maj6 chord in songbooks when the melody note is the same letter name as the chord root, but the maj7 chord works just fine as well. Mel bays own stepbystep method for melody chord performance will show you precisely how its done. The jazz one of americas top jazz guitar educators and authors, and a respected jazz chord melody performer, jody fisher clarifies and simplifies the art of creating an arrangement and improvising as a solo guitarist. There will never be another you jazz guitar chord melody duration.
In the videos from the sound of jazz tv show from 1958, theres monk playing blue monk with count basie sitting, leaning against the piano, listening and happily grinning. Tenor banjo melody chord playing system book mel bay publications, inc. Solo part,tablature sheet music by thelonious monk. A guitarists guide to the art of chord melody playing guitar educational 0073999958683. The chord melody book for ukulele ukulele in the dark with. There is a d at the third fret within the open d major chord, and there is a g at the eighth fret within the fifthstring d major barre chord. Tenor banjo melody chord playing system book mel bay. Chord melody songs for low g ukulele chord melody songs for low g ukulele. Blues for solo playing comes alive more when you can separate the chord and melody voices more. In this blog post, i will walk you through a 3step process to build a chord melody. Buy jazz guitar chord melodies guitar solo papcom by towey, dan isbn. I have purchased a lot of books on jazz guitar chord melody playing. Picking up where the harmony lessons in intermediate jazz guitar leave off, topics include melody and harmony integration, bass line development, chord enhancement, quartal harmonies, and how to arrange a guitar solo. This arrangement of monks mood is a wonderful treatment in a classic solo guitar setting, a striking counterpoint to sharps approach.
Five chord melody tips and stuff for jazz guitarists of. Unchained melody finished the second time through my set with the new and still evolving practice routine, and now i have all of the pdf files created for all of the scores. This version is based from the version in real book 1 in the key of d. Really good value, however, and highly recommended. May 31, 2010 blue monk was written by thelonious monk. Let me know what you think of this article by leaving a comment below.
Monk s countermelody is worth learning and using as part of your arrangements. Round midnight jazz guitar chord melody by thelonious monk. Contains printable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file. Blue monk melody and chords on guitar, jazzblues youtube. All the songs include the lyrics as well as the chord melody arrangement these are straight chord melodies, unlike dans other book asin. 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. Mel bay how can i read sheet music and play tenor banjo melody chord solos. Heres a straightforward and easy to apply lesson to perk up your chord melody playing.
When sunny gets blue yesterday you brought a new kind of love to me all the songs include the lyrics as well as the chord melody arrangement these are straight chord melodies, unlike dans other book jazz guitar chord melodies for solo guitar with cd there are no extended improvisations and no cd. Thats the best way to learn new things without being frustrated. Mel bay the exercises and tunes in this book involve playing the chords and the melody of a song simultaneously. The music of thelonious monk arranged for fingerstyle guitar is a unique dvd lesson that only duck baker could have put together. You can also use the c minor pentatonic scale or the c minor blues scale here. The only hangup is that there are no preliminary chord forms that you can learn to play the chords beneath the melody notes.
This book outlines six basic steps for playing guitar effectively in the chord melody style. 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. Please get in touch with us personally if you have any questions. I could imagine an open chord tuning like openg dgdgbd. Thelonious monk for guitar paperback march 1, 1999. Chord melody guitar music guitar tabs, tablature sheet music, tab books, videos, dvd lessons. Learn to play guitar by chord tabs using chord diagrams, transpose the key, watch video lessons and much more. And when looking at lead sheets of many of his tunes, its almost like some kind of graphical art the way the notes moves visually along the staves. This book presents thorough insight into the melodychord technique. Howard shows guitar applications of open and close voicings, parallel, oblique and contrary motion, block chords, comping, and just a bunch of really cool chord ideas. Your guitar becomes the ultimate jazz solo instrument when you master the techniques and concepts in this book. Music of thelonious monk stefan grossmans guitar workshop. In 2012, after many years playing classical guitar, i started playing the ukulele.
Thelonious monk for guitar by thelonious monk guitar. This arrangement by michael sweeney is an authentic adaptation using the original key bb and preserving monks unique rhythmic phrases. It is simply a picture of a guitar fingerboard with the. Your chord melody books are to me, the most helpful instruction since i started playing guitar 25 years ago. You can find teds original page in the tunes section of this website. The monk chord voicings are particularly easy to remember and play, because there are only two chord voicings in an entire key. Insights, arranging techniques, and classic jazz standards. Blue monk solo jazz guitar chord melody with tabs youtube. Jack wilkins jazz guitar workshop dvd out of print virtuoso jazz guitarist jack wilkins teaches single note improvised soloing over 251 progressions through the circle of 5ths while introducing arpeggios that fit this important progression. Few jazz composers have created a body of work as imaginative and offbeat as that of thelonious sphere monk 19171982.
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. Usually, the root bass note is found at the bottom and therefore, its very easy to transpose. Available for purchase only in the united states leadsheets typically only contain the lyrics, chord symbols and melody line of a. This solo guitar arrangement of a great bb blues by thelonious monk is an example of how to use passing chords voicings, parallel, diatonic. Thelonious monk chord voicings the jazz piano site. Jan 28, 2018 in a sentimental mood jazz guitar chord melody gibson l5 duration. But this is also why this chord voicing can become monotonous and dull. The music on the next two pages is the transcription of the melody and solo as played on the dvd.
Blue in green bluesette cherokee indian love song 500 miles high. Chordbuddy guitar method volume 1 teacher book chord buddy songbook dvd. For information regarding any ukulele product please email. This adaptation of thelonious monk s blue monk sits beautifully on the guitar, and puts some licks you may already know together in ways you may not have thought of. You might find a solution for more intresting melody options by alternating the tuning of the guitar. I made my own recording of the examples, because the book came without a tape my copy is 1972 and i like to hear things rather than read them. Here are the chords and the scales you can use to solo over the chord changes. On these parts, you use the aeolian aka natural minor scale. Each jazz standard page has all of the tools you need to learn a particular tune. A guitar players guide to thelonious monk fretboard journal. The thelonious monk classic arranged for jazz guitar.
Long story short, there are plenty of options to make music with kids. Solo jazz guitar chord melody arrangements 1 chris whiteman. Monks countermelody is worth learning and using as part of your. Listen to the way thelonious plays a countermelody is his left hand during the last 4 bars of the tune. My passion is classical ukulele and instrumental arrangements of folk and fiddle tunes. Jazz guitar chord construction thelonious monk institute of. This adaptation of thelonious monks blue monk sits beautifully on the guitar, and puts some licks you may already know together in ways you. I have several books intended for cm and i think the best one is the one by fred sokolow. A good chord book is a book by arnie berle modern chords and progressions for guitar published by amsco. Getting back to the basic question of a chord melody book, hands down, the real book, which has mostly jazz chords and melodies is, i believe, a good compilation, with a variety of popular jazz tunes. Thelonious monk blue monk sheet music leadsheet in bb. A guitar chord melody is a way of arranging songs so that a single guitar does all the work of providing melody and harmony, and usually includes a bass part as well. We think that you will find everything you need to get you started right here. 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.
Suggested listeningthelonious monk s thelonious monk trio album recorded in 1954. The great jazz standard blue monk for jazz guitar now with audio and pdf with chord melody, solo, and more. Round midnight jazz guitar chord melody by thelonious. Jazz blues lesson available via chord yoga guitar online learning platform. Onscreen numbers help correlate the numerous examples with monologue and performance. 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. Solo jazz guitar the complete chord melody method hal. See the red dot in the picture above thats the root.
Feel free to adjust the rhythms shown below to add more feel. Download your blue monk chord melody, solo, and more pdf here. 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. I received this book the other day and started working through it. 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. Therefore, the voicings in this chapter will be presented in chord diagrams. Creating chord melodies and playing solo arrangements is one of the most fun things about playing jazz guitar, so this this lesson will focus on how to play chord melody guitar by looking into 5 ways you can harmonize and embelish a melody with chords. Chris whiteman music offers a selection of jazz guitar arrangements in the chord melody stye of solo guitar and various jazz guitar education. This book will show you how to do it, step by step. Your chord melody sounds like just a bunch of chords one after another. Learn to play and improvise in chord melody style in this 12week online group course. Jan 16, 20 heres my straightforward solo guitar arrangement of round midnight written by thelonious monk.
Print and download round midnight jazz guitar chord melody sheet music. Not the coolest tune, i know, but making your own chord melody. The majority of the arrangements are however professionally competent to exceptional. Total ratings 2, hal leonard chordbuddy songbook volume 2. 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. I have arranged a number of ebooks for classical ukulele which are available as pdf digital downloads through payhip and gumroad please see below for details. Are there any chord melody method books which you would suggest. Stacy mckee this unique book includes 300 jazz guitar chord formations and matching single note arpeggio patterns in a quick reference format that no one has ever done before. Solo guitar here is teds version of when sunny gets blue arranged for solo guitar in outline format meaning that you have to add the missing melody notes and other fills, combined with standard notation and changes from the real book, plus the lyrics. Blue in green jazz guitar chord melody by miles davis. It might be a good idea to read howard morgans book through chordmelody and beyond. Chord reference diagrams in major, minor, and dominant ca. Welcome to our index of jazz standards where you can choose from a large selection of common jazz standards to learn.
Jack wilkins guitar tab books, instructional dvds, chord. B e 7 b f7 b b 7 e e 7 b f7 b f7 f7 b f7 blues 1 blue monk thelonius monk. The chord melody format is probably wrong for this tune. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Nov 14, 2018 considering the second string and the d major chord. With guitar tablature, standard notation, chord names, performance notes, guitar notation legend and introductory text. It is a solo ukulele technique that allows you to play beautiful and complete song arrangements on your own. Mistyrick stonearranger to repeat uses interesting,not run of the mill, chord voicings that change as the song progresses, quick change chords, counterpoint, ascending diads, some linear lines and.
Total ratings 2, chordbuddy guitar method pop hits songbook chord buddy book 000274974. Jazz chord melody secrets solo jazz guitar there is document jazz chord melody secrets solo jazz guitar available here for reading and downloading. Too many conflicts in blues between melody and chords to voice everything simultaneously otherwise. C6, also known as cmaj6, is a majortype chord very similar in sound and usage to the cmaj7. Gary wittner, meanwhile, has literally written the book on thelonious monk for guitar. Learn to masterfully combine jazz chords with walking. Chord melodies are often used in formats where guitar is the sole harmonic instrument.
Your kids might do the strumming and have fun while you might do the barre to change the chord. 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. Insensatez i could write a book in a sentimental mood like someone in love my favorite things my funny valentine my one and only love. Here are five tips for jazz guitarists of all levels regarding the fine art and science of playing harmony and melody simultaneously on the guitar the pain points. My chord melody playing is improving constantly every day. An arrangement and vibe would come about naturally as i figured out a possible solution to the. This is often one of the first 12 bar blues tunes that a jazz musician will learn. Many of these chord shapes will become your goto grips because they are all movable on the guitar, just like barre chords. As you will see, you can use these notes to play a solo within the chord progression, developing a melody. Through stepbystep creative exercises and my personal coaching, youll learn to express yourself creatively in chord melody style on the guitar. Welcome to our archive of some of the most popular jazz standards for jazz guitar.