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Jazz Guitar Standards And Your Contributions Jazz Standards PDF for You to Play: Chord Melody Guitar Tabs This page hosts the most popular jazz guitar standards and jazz guitar songs, in chord melody version. Each tune is provided with a PDF: lead sheet, chord melody arrangement and a basic chord chart (for comping). Some tunes (but not all) also have a video or audio demonstration of the arrangement, the chords and sample improvisation, to help you learn jazz standards. If you’re looking for just the jazz guitar chords PDF, refer to the last page of each tune below. Some background information (composer, year, etc.) and recommended listening are also provided for each individual jazz standard. Make sure you read the before you play section below. It will help you build your jazz repertoire. The way tunes are presented here might be slightly different from what you are used to.

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Finally, visitor can now contribute their own chord melody arrangements! As jazz musicians, you can share your chord melodies and rate or comment on other visitors’ contributions. Please share your jazz standards PDF at the bottom of this page. Chord melody guitar tabs by guests are an invaluable addition to this website! Before You Play: Performance notes regarding the free chord melody PDFs below. Notation for jazz guitar standards PDF: The first staff is melody + chord symbols: same as you would find in a fakebook. The chord melody arrangement is in the second staff guitar melody TABS and is demonstrated using chord diagrams only.

This simple approach gives you maximum freedom. The “chord shapes” are merely guidelines. Sometimes the melody doesn’t exactly fit; diagrams are used for reference only. Do create your own approach to the tune: add interesting rhythms and arpeggiate the chords.

The chord melody arrangements are designed to be played with a bassist, at least. If you’re playing solo guitar, add you own bass notes!

🙂. Most importantly, study your favorite standards deeply and make them your own. Get some inspiration and ideas from recordings by and live concerts.

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Not Sure Where to Start? Download This Download our selection of the, with chord melody, chord symbols, chord diagrams and leadsheet! List of (FREE) Jazz Guitar Standards Tunes: Chord Melody Guitar PDFs. Michael Olson, San Francisco, USA) A great 1924 Gershwin tune, excised from many a musical. The chord names are straight from the real book lead sheet, without my alterations. The tablature are the general shapes you play the melody over, a simplified harmonic guide. For an excellent reference, listen to Helen Forrest backed by the Benny Goodman Orchestra. Solo performances of it on piano are very exuberant and much more “Gershwin-ny” in contrast.

Billie and Ella also sang great renditions, but Helen’s voice (supported by Goodman’s arrangement) shows that it is as dark and somber a tune at heart as “Summertime”. Michael Olson, San Francisco, USA) This is a rather “chordy” arrangement of Duke Ellington’s 1932 classic. I wrote it as a condensed exercise on inversions, by and large in response to the excellent Barry Galbraith comping etudes recommended by our gracious host and friend Marc-Andre. I suggest listening to Ellington’s duet with contrabassist Jimmy Blanton, one of the sweetest pieces of music I’ve ever heard and available on youtube to give you stylistic and improvisatory inspiration. Note that the first verse and second half of the chorus are played an octave higher than notated.

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The chord references are from the Real Book and do not include my alterations.