I quickly made a pdf harmonizing some scales. Spend some time on this, as this will help a lot I think.
You should make melodies out of scale tones and then try to harmonize them. There a lot to do here that will really move you forward with chord melodies.
This is a difficult one.
Again I left the chords out. Get the real book out and write in the changes so you in some small way begin to think about the harmony. Look at the notes and enter the chords.
Can you see the different keys this goes through? Thanks to Bach and the Well Tempered system of tuning, or I think this tune would sound terrible in Midieval tuning! :-).
Play it slowly and work it up.
Here's a simple chord melody on All The Things You Are. I tried to incorporate many of the things we talked about in the Beginner's Course. Sorry about the pedal sound, didn't have time to mess with it today :)
Here’s the Days of Wine and Roses chord melody.
I’ll give my new solo cd to the first 2 people who do the following.
1. Play my chord melody
2. Take a solo
3. Play my chord melody or your melody for the head out
The deadline is February first 2019
You have to have good time, keep the time. I don’t care how simple the solo is! Just play it well