Repertoire - Melody & Chord Arrangements

Here is a sampling of the songs a trypical jazz guitarist needs to learn.

Visit the lessons:repertoire page for some sample melody and chord arrangemens of mine.

Here is a site where you can find out which fake books contain which song: The Fake Book Index - Seventh String Software

A

• A Child Is Born
• A Foggy Day
• A Go Go
• A Night In Tunisia
• Afro Blue
• Afternoon in Paris
• All Blues
• All My Lovin'
• All My Tomorrows
• All of Me
• All of You
• All The Things You Are
• Alone Together
• Anthropology
• Au Privave
• Autumn Leaves

  B

• Back Home In Indiania
• Billie's Bounce
• Birk's Works
• Black Orpheus
• Blue Bossa
• Blue In Green
• Blue Monk
• Blue Train
• Blues for Alice
• Bluesette
• Body and Soul

  C

• Call Me
• Caravan
• Cherokee
• Chitlin's Con Carne - C Blues
• C Jam Blues
• Confirmation
• Countdown
• Corcovado
• Crazy
• Cute

  D

• Darn That Dream
• Days Of Wine And Roses (The)
• Desafinado
• Donna Lee
• Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• Doxy

  E

• Eleanor Rigby
• Embraceable You

F

• Fly Me To The Moon
• Four
• Four on Six
• Freedie Freeloader

  G

• Georgia
• Giant Steps
• Girl from Ipanena (The)
• God Bless' The Child
• Good Bye Pork Pie Hat
• Groovin' High
• Groove Yard

  H

• Have You Met Miss Jones
• Here's That Rainy Day
• High High the Moon
• How Do You Keep The Music Playing
• How Insensative

  I

• I Can't Get Started
• I Loves You Porgy
• I Remember Clifford
• I'll Remember April
• Impressions
• Invitation

  J

• Jersey Bounce
• Jordu
• Joy Spring

  K

• Killer Joe

  L

• Lady Bird
• Lady Is A Tramp (The)
• Le Petite Mambo
• Lover Man
• Love Supreme
• Lush Life

M

• Maiden Voyage
• Meditation
• Michelle
• Midnight Blue
• Milestones
• Misty
• Moanin'
• Moondance
• Moonlight In Vermont
• Moon River
• Moonlight Senerade
• More
• My Favorite Things
• My Foolish Heart
• My Funny Valentine

  N

• Nardis
• Niama
• Night and Day

  O

• On A Clear Day
• Green Dolphin Street (On)
• Once I Loved
• One Note Samba
• Ornithology
• O'Barquino (Little Boat)

  P

  Q

  R

• 'Round Midnight
• Road Song (The)

  S

• Satin Doll
• Scrapple The Apple
• Shadow of Your Smile (The)
• Shiny Stockings
• Sidewinder
• So Nice (Summer Samba)
• Soft Winds
• Solar
• Some Day My Prince Will Come
• Song For My Father
• So What
• Spanish Eyes
• Spring Is Here
• St. Thomas
• Stardust
• Stella By Starlight
• Stompin' At The Savoy
• Straight No Chaser
• Suger
• Summer Samba (So Nice)
• Summertime
• Sunny
• Sweet Georgia Brown

T

• Take Five
• Take the 'A' Train
• Tenderly
• The Way You Look Tonight
• There Will Never Be Another You
• They Can't Take That Away From Me
• This Masquerade
• Tune Up

  U

  V

• Valse Hot

  W

• Watch What Happens
• Watermelon Man
• Wave
• West Coast Blues
• What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
• What Is This Thing Called Love
• What's New
• When I Fall In Love
• When Sunny Gets Blue
• Witchcraft

  X

  Y

• Yesterday
• You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
• You Send Me

  Z

A

• A Christmas Schlong
• A Day In The Life of a Mule
• A Day in the Wife of a Ghoul
• A Month in Tunisia
• A White Sportcoat and a Pink Crustacean
• Afternoon in Pear-ass
• Ah, Sweet Mastery of Wife
• Ah, Sweet Misery of Lice
• All Booze
• All the things You Mar
• All Them Leaves
• All You Think You Are
• Always Some Thin Hair to Remind Me
• Angel Thighs
• Angle Eyes
• Are You Loathsome Tonight?
• Autumn Heaves

  B

• Baby Won't You Please Go Home
• Barbrawho?
• Beaver
• Black Orifice
• Blame it on Vermouth
• Butt Beautiful

  C

• Can't Elope, Ivan
• Can't Help Shoving That Fan of Mine
• Cherries Stink and Chapel Possums Bite
• Chew, Chew Your Lugi
• Christmastime Means Beer

  D

• Die, Anne
• Do Nothing Till You Hear Bums Pee
• Do You Know The Way To Sam's Buffet
• Do You Know What It Means To Mess Your Blue Jeans?
• Don't Flame Me
• Don't Get a Brown, Dutch, Penny Whore
• Don't Get a Clown Much Anymore
• Do You Know What It Means To Mess Your Blue Jeans?
• Dressing Me Mucho
• Dumb Pain in my Spine

  E

• Emily for gay guys = Emile
• Everything I Had Is Yours

  Ellington Medley:

  • Sat-on Doll
  • Prelude to a Quiche
  • Constipated Lady
  • He's Got a Badge and That Ain't Good

F

• Foodprints
• Fry me a Liver

  G

• Gee Baby Ain't I Glued to You
• Giant Schlepps
• Girl From West Covina
• Girl with Emphysema
• Give Me the Sinful Life
• Glue Bossa

  H

• Harbor Lice
• Have A Tequila
• Have you Wet, Miss Jones?
• Have Yourself a Hairy Little Swiss Miss
• Hello Dowry
• Hello Young Losers
• Honey Suck My Hose

  I

• I Caught You Under My Twin
• I Dismember You
• I Got Kicked Out By You
• I Guess I'll Have to Change My Pants
• I Laid a Fart,in San Francisco
• I Love Pear-ass
• I Only Have Ice For You
• I'd Love To Be Loved by Two
• I'd Love You More if You'd Ever Go
• I'll Dismember April
• I'll Fake Romance
• I'm Getting Cement All Over You
• I'm Getting Sort of Mental Over You
• I've Thrown a Custard in Her Face
• If I Wore A Bell
• In The Nude
• Inflatable You
• Isn't Tit Romantic?

  J

• Juan, Son of Farrah
• Just Fiends

  K

• Killing Me Softly With Her Thong

  L

• Lady of Pain
• Let's Brawl and Shove
• Level Fake Hair
• Like a Blind, Stoned Cowboy
• Lullabye of Nerd Land
• Lush Wife

M

• Medication
• Mel'll Drain Ya'
• Midnight at the Boat Races
• Moishe, Moishe Moishe
• Moonlight in Vermouth
• Mr. Licky
• Music To Watch Girls Bi
• Must Hang Sally
• My Cart Belongs To Daddy
• My Favorite Flings
• My Old Phlegm
• My One and Only Glove
• My Phony Valentine

  N

• Neuralgia in Times Square

  O

• Oh, You Crazy Goon
• Oil of Me
• Old Gang Sign
• On A Queer Day
• One O'Clock Dump
• Oy Ve Maria

  P

• Paint Jane's Infirmary
• Peg Am I Hard
• Plague of my Heart
• Plastical Glass
• Poisoner of Love

  Q

  R

• Ricki Don't Bruise that Lumber
• Rin Tin Tin Deo

  S

• Satan Doll
• Sealed With a Knish
• Send Him the Gowns
• She's Phony That Way
• Shit Could Happen to You
• Simple Mental Journey
• Sit On A Happy Face
• Sleazy Living
• Slightly Out of Spoons
• Slime Every Fountain
• Some Hair on My Corned Beef
• Someday My Pants Will Come
• Someone to Squat Over Me
• Stella by Headlights
• Stolen Comments
• Summer Nose (The)
• Summertime and Her Living Room's Sleazy

T

• That Old Squealing
• The Chateau Of Your Smile
• The Craze of Dining Noses
• The Days of Whining Hosers
• The Gentile Rain
• The Girl With Emphezema
• The Last Time I Saw Pear-ass
• The Object of my Infection
• The Sheep of Araby
• The Summer Nose
• The Touch of Your Whips
• The Workin' Girl Talk Son
• There Will Be Another You (Hindu version)
• There Will Never Be Another Yew
• This Nearly Was Mime
• This Time the Cream's On Me
• Three Groins in a Fountain
• Too Old Folks
• Turdland

  U

• Unchain Melanie
• Unchanged Malady

  V

• Violence or Your Furs

  W

• Wash What Happens
• We Bitched, Bothered and Belittled
• Whacked Tragic Woman
• What Are You Doing with the Breast of My Wife?
• When I Look Into Your Thighs
• When You Swish a Spawning Jar
• When Your Liver has Gone
• While My Qatar Gently Weeps
• Who Can I Turn On?
• Who Can I Turn On?
• Who's Soggy Now?
• Will You Still Be Slime?
• Without a Schlong

  X

  Y

• You and the Night and the Mucus
• You Bite Up My Wife
• You Can Descend on Me
• You Don't Blow Me
• You Go For My Head
• You Go For My Head
• You Schlepped Out Of a Dream
• You'd Be So Sleazy To Love
• You're Somebody 'Till Nobody Loves You

  Z

Remembering those pesky songs - Lesson

Triggers are a way to remember a song or harmonic progression, independent of a particular key. It is a pathway or road map through a song. I've always had trouble remembering songs and was amazed at how musicians such as Chuck Anderson and Jimmy Bruno can remember so many songs. I'm sure the great remember musicians remember songs this way or in a very similiar manner.

Common Progressions - Lesson

Songs with similiar progressions.

The Ten Jammandments

by Robert Rosenberg, Jamming Juris Doctor and Moral Arbiter edited by Charlie Hall, user of the English language

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1. Thou Shalt Tune Thy Instrument - There are too many good, cheap tuners around not to do this.
2. Thou Shalt Listen - if you can't hear the lead instrument or vocalist, then consider yourself too loud.
3. Thou Shalt Pass - when handing off an instrumental solo, try to follow a pattern either clockwise or counter-clockwise. If you want to skip the next solo or pass it off to the next picker, be sure that the next person is aware of the handoff. No one wants to start their solo in the middle of the song.
4. Thou Shalt Welcome Others - open up the circle if others want to join. The jam can not be too big if people are polite.
5. Thou Shalt Share in the Selection - Open the choice of songs to the pickers around the circle. Take turns. Don't monopolize the jam.
6. Thou Shalt Try New Stuff - once in a while a participant may suggest original material or one that is out of character with the jam. This is OK (refer to Jammandments 2 and 4.)
7. Thou Shalt Let Others Know When You Are Not Jamming - bands may sometimes be rehearsing and may need to exclude non-band members from jamming. If so, an explanation would be nice.
8. Thou Shalt Not Raid - don't interrupt an active jam by calling musicians away to begin another jam.
9. Thou Shalt Keepith Thy Rhythm Steadyith - Errors in rhythm are most difficult to overcome. Avoid adding or dropping beats. Play quietly if you can't keep up and pay attention. (refer to Jammandment 2)
10. Thou Shalt Not Speed - do not start a song too fast for the others to play. Once everyone has had a turn at the lead, the one may announce that the tempo is about to increase.