Here a fun one. A duet on Black Coffee with a great singer Lisa Leuschner
Easy Living – Jazz Standard Solo Jazz Guitar Arrangement
Hi all,
I just wanted to share this solo arrangement of the standard “Easy Living” I am working on this week. The melody had some good leaps in it and resulted in some pretty big leaps on the neck in the way I harmonized it. I’m gonna work on playi…Read More
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Very nice Joe. Regarding tempo, i think it might be a good arrangement strategy to play it thru once with at a loose ballad tempo and really let the melody sing then kick into this tempo and swing it with the bass line .
Excellent job this looks very challenging and you did a great job on it.
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Thank you for the feedback, it is very helpful! I will experiment with that approach, and maybe add a half or whole chorus of improv the second time through. I think my biggest thing right now is I am starting to have a good number of tunes racked up, but need to flesh out the arrangements so they amount to more than 2 min of music each! Haha
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That’s it! If you’re like me there’s no way to memorize 200 two minute arrangements. You gotta have a basic template and then improvise in all the various ways, rhythmic variations, different tempi, modulations medleys etc. it makes the gig a lot more fun.
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Thank you Tim, that’s alot of food for thought and a bit of direction for me! I was wondering if you have ever done or considered doing a block of instruction specifically for preparing for, maintaining repertoire for, and performing in the context of a Solo guitar gig. Even(most likely for the majority of us) if it is more in the context of a w…Read More
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Love it, following you on YouTube now.
The weekend’s Livestream is up on the Livestreams page! The Careless Love PDF is located there as well (at the bottom of the page).
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