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What was the first jazz standard you learned to play on the guitar?
I started with Autumn Leaves (like a lot of people I guess ).
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08-12-2021 04:23 PM
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Autumn leaves too
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Night and Day I believe.
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Green Dolphin Street
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Summertime.
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Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
(In about 1980, after many years playing blues and ragtime)
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Misty and Girl from Ipanema
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Don't Blame Me.
Sid Margolis showed me a chord melody for it. That was his way of teaching chords. He'd write them out on a grid and circle the root. My job was to learn them at every fret, by name. This was possible because I'd already learned to read all over the neck, so I knew the notes.Last edited by rpjazzguitar; 08-12-2021 at 11:11 PM.
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one off the beaten track
When Sunny Gets Blue
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Girl From Ipanema, or maybe Bye Bye Blackbird when I was about twelve.
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On the Sunny Side of the Street.
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I'll get my coat.
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Rockin Chair. I had my lil arrangement memorized for a while before I even became fluent on guitar.
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Misty.
Still one of my favourit. My friends father, who was a jazz organ player, many times mentioned, how amazing that Stan Getz leads the melody "through the tonic" (means the starting phrase not only 3 notes, the major seven note preceded by the tonic). It was 40 years ago, but I still recall his voice when playing the head.... and some point I also use that phrase.
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A one note samba.
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Worked out my own arrangement Mancini's Charade. I still don't know how I did it. I was a teenager and fairly new to guitar and came up with an arrangement totally by ear.
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All the things you are
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Originally Posted by ksaric
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Cherokee...only kidding! Autumn Leaves.
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Have you met miss Jones ?
Probably not the optimum first tune
I still find playing smoothly through the B section a challenge
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Shoeshine Boy.
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Originally Posted by Gabor
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Blue Bossa.
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Satin Doll, IIRC.
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind
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