Chord Melody Etude

[Tal Farlow]

Considering I've had about 20 consecutive posts of questions I figured it was about time I contributed something helpfu to this forum. And here it is:

This is a little exercise developed by Jody Fisher (Author of the four Complete Jazz Guitar Method books among others) designed to "help you develop a solid Chord-Melody-Style playing technique." It comes from a forgotten issue of Guitar World. Enjoy!



-10--13--11------8--11--10------
-10------11------8------10------
-10------12--12--8------10--10--
---------10------7------12------
-13-----------------------------
--------------------------------

-6--10--8--------------
-6------8-----8--6--6--
-7------8--8--8-----3--
-5------8-----7-----7--
--------------8-----5--
-----------------------

----------------5--6-----
----8-----6--------3--3--
-7-----5-----5-----3-----
-5-----5-----4-----3-----
-6-----6-----5-----------
-6-----5-----------3-----

-11---5-------------|
-8----7----6--------|
-8----7----5--------|
-8----7----5--------|
------6----5--------|
-8------------------|



Whew, that took forever to write out

[DINOEL GANDINI]

is it possible to have the music sheet??tks

[m78w]

I threw the exercise into Sibelius with the tab, notes and chord changes. He's using some subs but I wrote the basic chord changes on top for you to check out.

Dig,
MW

[derek]

If you are interested in chord melody, I would strongly suggest you pick up one of Jody's books on cm. He is one of the best solo guitar players out there today.

Jody Fisher - Guitarist-Composer-Author-Educator - HOME

[guelda]

Thanks for that guys, I'll try it very soon !
I appreciated very much the Jody Fischer methods I have, well organized,
good examples, etc.

[Aaron J. Halpern]

learning chords melody's is something that I deffently, want to learn ,as a soloist playing chords all the time is boreing,