Autumn Leaves Chord Melody

In this video I'll show you how I create chord melodies by working on the jazz standard Autumn Leaves.
🎸 Get my FREE Solo Guitar Arrangement Pack (Sheet Music & Tab) → https://bit.ly/2HdU0mV

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

🔗 LINKS & LESSONS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
🎸 My website → https://www.soundguitarlessons.com/
🎸 See the diagrams from this video → https://www.soundguitarlessons.com/blog/autumn-leaves-chord-melody
🎸 Full playlist of this series → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLho65cYn4nF1uf0_Bohl-Jb7rrJy0SDvR
🎸 Intro to chord melodies in 3 steps → https://youtu.be/z-8fDDd9UJA
🎸 Fly Me to the Moon Chord Melody → https://youtu.be/K4XtjQwctQQ
🎸 Jazz comping mastery course trailer → https://youtu.be/G-INmRCELqs
🎸 Quartal chords → https://youtu.be/saC-0Y22_jY
🎸 Hybrid picking tutorial → https://youtu.be/Ma6yYttz7lE
🎸 How to practice to get anything down → https://youtu.be/ij9NWcoFVmk
🎸 Get my FREE Solo Guitar Arrangement Pack (Sheet Music & Tab) → https://bit.ly/2HdU0mV
🎸 WATCH THIS NEXT: Autumn Leaves solo guitar arrangement → https://youtu.be/aiGRRBPi5K8

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

💬 LESSON DESCRIPTION:
This is the first video in a new series that I'm starting called "Make it a Chord Melody."
We're going to turn a bunch of tunes into chord melodies, and we're going to talk about improvising with them too.
In this video, I turn the "Autumn Leaves" melody into a chord melody.
Defined simply, a chord melody is when every instance of a melody is supported by some sort of chord shape.
In the video, I go through a process that I’ve formulated over many years for playing melodies with chords at the same time.
It's an amazing sound.
Creating chord melodies is a fantastic fretboard knowledge study, whether we just want to play chord melodies, create fuller solo guitar arrangements, or if we want to hear the harmony of a melody in the same way that piano players get to do.
The process of creating a chord melody helps me deeply internalize a tune and its harmony so I really feel the music.
It’s an extremely valuable practice to dig into, no matter what kind of music we’re making.
I hope you enjoyed this lesson about chord melodies on guitar and found it beneficial. Let me know what you thought in the comments.
Thanks! :)
- Jared

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

🎸 Get my FREE Solo Guitar Arrangement Pack (Sheet Music & Tab) → https://bit.ly/2HdU0mV

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

🕛 VIDEO CONTENT OUTLINE (WITH TIMESTAMP LINKS):
0:00 - About chord melodies & this series
2:20 - Step #1: Melody
3:34 - Step #2: Chords
4:19 - Step #3: Melody on top strings
8:29 - Step #4: Harmonize melody with chord shapes
18:05 - Switching chords when the melody sustains
20:52 - Autumn Leaves chord melody full demonstration
21:50 - Chord melody arrangements to practice and study (FREE PDF)

#jazzguitar #chordmelody #chordmelodyguitar