Resources

[mrman93]

Any recomended resources of learning chord-melody?

[hubert54]

perhaps ask John400, who has an interesting approach to "chord-melody"

[derek]

Listening is of course the best. I really like Jody Fisher's approach, and Howard Morgen's. Robert Conti's stuff is pretty good for giving you material to use right away. One of the things that can be done is to buy collections of arrangements. Robert Yelin has several, and the Barry Galbraith books are very popular for this also. Good luck

[mike_k]

+1 on Derek's comments. I have especially found Fisher's and Morgen's material helpful.

[M-ster]

Originally Posted by hubert54

perhaps ask John400, who has an interesting approach to "chord-melody"

Explain or link, please?

[matt.guitarteacher]

Jody Fisher's book is good but assumes that you already know a substantial number of chord voicings (which can be found in his other books in the series).

If you don't really know how to play given chords with specific melody notes "on top", Robert Conti's Assembly Line book limits the number of chord choices to one or two for each scale tone/chord combination. It's very basic and can get you up and running pretty quickly. It's then up to you to seek out additional voicings and/or find additional chord tones within the current form.

Conti's The Formula is his method for learning chord substitution/reharmonization and is not for beginners. He has some other chord melody books which have tune arrangements. These might be a more fun starting point for learning the voicings used in the Assembly Line if your'e a beginner.

[Drumbler]

Originally Posted by mrman93

Any recomended resources of learning chord-melody?

The best way is to make up your own chord melodies.

If you understand the concept then you can do it.

1) Know a bunch of jazz chord voicings and inversions.

2) Put the melody note on the top string of the chord voicing.

That's the gist.

By making your own you learn what's going on rather than learning by rote.

[jayv999]

for a great storehouse of chord-melody information as well as arrangements, go to the TedGreene.com website. Free!

[bracer]

Not all of it is useful,
but there's some nice stuff to learn from these:
Lick By Neck - Learn The Guitar Visually. Play The Guitar instantly! Teach The Guitar Globally!

[Dad3353]

Originally Posted by bracer

...there's some nice stuff to learn from these:
Lick By Neck - Learn The Guitar Visually. Play The Guitar instantly! Teach The Guitar Globally!

There certainly is..! In twenty minutes I found more than enough to keep me (very..!) busy for the next twenty years or so (but it's true; I'm rather slow..! ).
Many thanks, bracer (or would that be 'Många tack'..,); glad you called..!

[bracer]

Originally Posted by Dad3353

There certainly is..! In twenty minutes I found more than enough to keep me (very..!) busy for the next twenty years or so (but it's true; I'm rather slow..! ).
Many thanks, bracer (or would that be 'Många tack'..,); glad you called..!

I haven't learnt any of the songs "fully" and up to speed.
But just going through some of them slowly can give you some great ideas and inspiration!

There is some really easy ones, I like to learn them,
and then modify them (make them harder or add some spice) to my own liking instead.
I think that's a better approach instead of spending a year to learn one of the harder ones note by note...

Excellent swedish btw!