Jazz standards
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Blue Bossa - Guitar Chord Study For Beginners - YouTube Short Video - Diagrams & Tabs
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-02-08
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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"Blue Bossa" is a jazz standard composed by trumpetist Kenny Dorham and one of the most popular Bossa Nova song.
The tune has since become a popular jazz standard, covered by numerous artists as Joe Henderson, Art Pepper, Dexter Gordon and many more.
This guitar lesson provides an easy chord study with tab / notation and YouTube short video to learn how to comp over it.
You'll find the related PDF transcription in the GUMROAD STORE.
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Solar - Miles Davis - Guitar Chord Melody Lesson and Analysis With Tabs
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-03-04
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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"Solar" is a jazz standard written by Miles Davis in the key of C minor with four tonal centers that are : C minor, F major, Eb major and Db major. Solar contains essential chord progressions as major and minor II V I. This lesson provides a short harmonic analysis and a chord melody arrangement for guitar with tabs, standard notation, chord shapes and audio file.
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How To Play Autumn Leaves - Jazz Guitar Chords - Advanced lesson
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2018-03-16
- In Chords / Voicings
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Autumn leaves is a 1945 song composed by French musician Joseph Kosma. The original lyrics are in French, written by Kosma but in 1947 Johnny Mercer wrote the English ones. Since that time it has become a very popular song and surely one of the most played jazz standards.This song is in a AABC form (32 bars), very much appreciated by beginners because the harmonic progression is pretty simple to play and easy to understand. It covers a very important chord sequence found in jazz, the ii-V-I both in minor and major.
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List Of Jazz Standards And Keys
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2017-08-31
- 3 comments
A“standard” or “jazz standard” is referring to a popular music piece and/or jazz music composition that is held in continuing esteem and is frequently used in musical repertoire.
Many of these “jazz standards” were not necessarily originally jazz compositions. Music publishers include the term “jazz standards” in a description or a title they nearly always are referring to compositions used as the basis for improvisation or jazz arrangements.
You will find in this post a non-exhaustive list of jazz standards and their original keys to practice at home or in jam sessions.
