I have more, but for now here's the chord melody. Next I just play around for a couple of choruses.
Get this down!
🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 3
Over the first two weeks of this series, we've focused on building a harmonic foundation:
• Learning the form
• Internalizing common voicings
• Hearing the movement of the harmony
• Developing familiarity with rhythm changes
The rhythm was intentionally simple so all of our attention could be placed on the chords.
This week, that changes.
👉 We're introducing comping rhythms.
Many of the voicings in this lesson will already be familiar from Weeks 1 and 2. That's by design.
🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 2
Last week, we focused on learning the form and internalizing a set of common rhythm changes voicings. The rhythm was intentionally simple so all of our attention could be placed on the harmony.
This week, we're continuing that approach.
👉 The focus is still harmony, not rhythm.
The written rhythm remains simple because we're trying to build a larger vocabulary of voicings before we start introducing rhythmic comping concepts.
I will do a chord melody and either post it here, or as a separate post.
🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 14
We’ve covered a lot over the course of this series:
• Guide tones
• Blues comping
• Chromaticism
• Whole tone and diminished language
• Chord melody textures
• Harmonic movement underneath simple melodies
For our final lesson, we bring many of those ideas together using:
👉 “The Intimacy of the Blues”
This arrangement continues the idea of using a relatively simple melody as a framework for richer harmonic movement underneath.
This week introduces:
Let's work on comping!
Do you know the chords!!! :-)
🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 13
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been combining blues melodies with chord voicings and moving toward a fuller chord melody approach.
This week, we use a very simple melody:
👉 “C Jam Blues”
Because the melody is so minimal, it gives us room to focus on something else:
👉 Dense harmonic movement underneath the melody
This lesson introduces several important concepts:
quick video here, but think about and practice this a little bit.
check this out. Practice this way. Not that you will use it all the time, but you might use it a lot!