Video: After You’ve Gone
I thought it would be nice to play you a chord melody arrangement of After You've Gone, a beautiful jazz standard that works really well for solo guitar.Now the exciting bit: If you're keen to have a structured, step-by-step approach to learning jazz guitar, it...
Video: Stella By Starlight Chord Melody
Here's a little something I've been working on lately - check it out on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myONyhZMAws It's a solo jazz guitar arrangement of Stella By Starlight. Part of the challenge with this tune on solo guitar is the frequent,...
Video: Fast Blues Solo
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQy_eHcQHdI This is something I've been working on lately in the FretDojo Academy Club, my monthly online jazz standard learning group. I've been looking in detail at the soloing approaches of Grant Green, the...
FretDojo student shows how it’s done
I just wrapped up the latest challenge in the FretDojo Academy, and I thought I could share with you one of the member's efforts. Here's Steffen Böhm with a tasty rendition of Beautiful Love that he submitted for the challenge:...
Video: Beautiful Love
I thought it would be cool today to show you something I've been working on lately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp5J8z_V0bM Here's a rendition of Beautiful Love, one of my favorite tunes to play. I've tried to go out of my comfort zone on this video and...
Video: Stompin’ At The Savoy
I recorded a new Youtube video, check it out here: https://youtu.be/2_Fro_2eKJA This video is a chord melody rendition of Stompin' At The Savoy. It's the exact version you're going to learn for this month's featured tune in my new jazz standard learning group,...
Video: All The Things You Are Easy Chord Melody
Here's a little video I recorded recently of a chord melody version of All The Things You Are. Check it out (it only goes for a minute or two): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blgq2XeNblM Now that you've watched it, let me ask you a question. Does this...
It’s Christmas – Solo Jazz Guitar Style! (First Noel Chord Melody)
This video is an arrangement of The First Noel - my favourite Christmas carol. Playing this tune takes me back to my childhood and listening to the church congregation singing this beautiful melody. I've incorporated a few jazz guitar arranging techniques but...
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...