Category: Chord Melody Guitar

Autumn Leaves Guitar Hacks – Easy Fingerstyle Lesson + TAB
Recently I’ve been on a mission - to make the easiest Autumn Leaves guitar arrangement ever created. Hey, presto:After weeks of experimentation and hours upon hours of blood, sweat, and tears, here is the easiest Autumn Leaves chord melody in the known universe....

Chord Melody Guitar: Best Starter Guide For 2021
Chord Melody Guitar Hub on FretDojo:Welcome to the Chord Melody Guitar lessons area on FretDojo! If you’re like most guitarists, you’re in wonder of players like Lenny Breau, Joe Pass, and Ted Greene in the way they can combine melody and chords on a single guitar. ...

4 Great Chord Melody Jazz Guitarists Part 4: Joe Pass
"Joe Pass looks like somebody's uncle and plays guitar like nobody's business. He's called 'the world's greatest' and often compared to Paganini for his virtuosity. There is a certain purity to his sound that makes him stand out easily from other first-rate jazz...

4 Great Chord Melody Jazz Guitarists Part 3: Lenny Breau
"Lenny Breau is the greatest guitar player in the world. If Chopin could have played the guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau." ~ Chet Atkins If I had to pick one player out of the pantheon of jazz guitarists who was the most creative, spontaneous and...

4 Great Chord Melody Jazz Guitarists Part 2: Ted Greene
Have you ever heard of the Chord Chemist? In part 2 of this special series entitled 4 Great Chord Melody Jazz Guitarists, you're going to learn about a jazz guitar chord melody player who made a lasting impact on the jazz guitar scene. Ted Greene is who I’m talking...

4 Great Chord Melody Jazz Guitarists Part 1: Ed Bickert
In the second half of the 20th century, four of the most exceptional chord melody guitarists emerged on the jazz guitar scene. In this four-part series of posts, you're going to learn about these important players lives, their style, and how they each of them made a...

My New Chord Melody eBook
The wait is over… My new eBook, The Easy Guide To Chord Melody Guitar, is now officially released! The Easy Guide To Chord Melody Guitar is a complete A-Z guide on creating your own great sounding chord melody arrangements for trio and solo guitar situations,...

Why I Love Playing Chord Melody
Let’s face it: It gets boring playing guitar with only single lines all of the time. Especially if the only other option is to comp in the rhythm section. But: What if you could combine single lines and chords together at the same time? If you learn how to play...

Video: I Fall in Love Too Easily
In this post I will give you a behind-the-scenes look at how I put together the jazz guitar solo arrangement you can see in the video above. I’ve been listening to a lot of Chet Baker recently, in particular his classic album, ‘Chet Baker Sings’. This well-known album...

Video: Jamming On Green Dolphin Street
A quick post today - this is a video of yours truly jamming on this classic jazz standard by Bronisław Kaper & Ned Washington, Green Dolphin Street. I thought that you might be interested to check this out. Following on from the recent post I released on chord...