Jazz Repertoire

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Repertoire - Melody & Chord Arrangements

 

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Survey of Your Music Knowledge

Taking a survey of your music knowledge is a great start to creating a well rounded plan for further development and increasing your music enjoyment.

I've been asked many times to put together a plan of attack for getting beyond the basics. These lesson pages are intended to provide material for developing your skills and expanding your music knowledge.

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Repertoire for Jazz Guitar

INDEX: [ Real Titles | Humorous Titles ]

What is Repertoire?

NOUN:

1. The stock of songs, plays, operas, readings, or other pieces that a player or company is prepared to perform. 2. The class of compositions in a genre: has excellent command of the chanteuse repertoire. 3. The range or number of skills, aptitudes, or special accomplishments of a particular person or group.

ETYMOLOGY:

French répertoire, from Old French, from Late Latin repertrium.

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

Visit the repertoire lessons page for melody and chord arrangements of mine.

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

Song List

Humorous Song Names

Here is a list of songs names from recent postings to the Jazz Guitar newsgroup: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz.

Submissions by: Joe Finn, Doug Allen, Joey Goldstien, Jimmy Bruno. (If I forgot someone just let me know.)

Ukulele - Melody & Chord Arrangements, with TAB

All ukulele repertoire is available with a downloadable PDF version of the arrangement.

Some songs can be played using the Scorch plug-in from Sibelius

These solo arrangements are presented For educational purposes only

Working on Melody & Chord Ukulele Arrangements for:

  • Classical Gas
  • Aloha Oe
  • Amazing Grace
  • I'll Remember April
  • My Favorite Things
  • Spanish Flea
  • Tijuana Taxi
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps Std Notation & TAB

    With the popularity of Jake Shimabukuro this George Harrison song. I thought I'd tackle it in the original key of A minor/A major. I perform this song in a medley with Here Comes the Sun in concert.

  • Eleanor Rigby Std Notation, Chord Grids & TAB
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • Here Comes the Sun
  • Image
  • Norwegian Wood
  • Penny Lane
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
  • Yesterday NEW Std Notation & TAB

    Here is my solo ukulele arrangement of this classic Paul McCartney, Beatles song.

Guitar - Melody & Chord Arrangements

These solo arrangements are presented For educational purposes only

Tips, Tricks and Tools for Remembering Your Repertoire

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.

Play-Along MP3 Tracks

All Play-Along lessons are available with MP3 backing track, PDF lead sheet and tips and tricks for learning the song.

Over the course of time I'll be releasing (for FREE) a collection of songs that I had recorded as backing tracks. There are great track for learning tunes, how arrangements are created and a source of material to improv over.

These are the same tracks that I've used in the past for live gigs. (songs in italics coming soon)

Here is a partial list of the songs that will be posted. I have close to 60 of these tracks that I created many moons ago ($$$$)

Here are a few of the tracks that I recorded guitar over awhile back.

Recorded on a Gibson Wes Montgomery L5


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