Chorld melody arrangements independent guitar, drum and. Thelonious monk s chord progressions listed on songtrellis. To learn reading the chords of a guitar, one must have the basic knowledge on what a chord is and how is it produced. A guitar players guide to thelonious monk fretboard journal. Monks countermelody is worth learning and using as part of your. Solo part,tablature sheet music by thelonious monk. Blue monk little rootie tootie monks dream nutty played once reflections round midnight ruby, my dear ugly beauty we see about the author guitar notation legend.
On guitar, a chord melody is an arrangement of a song that includes both the melody and the harmony chords simultaneously. Jazz piano collection thelonious monk thelonious monk. In this first lesson i am not going to go in to a lot of detail with what extra harmony or voice leading you can check out. I arranged the melody of blue bossa the way you would play it in a jazz trio by adding chords to the melody. I received this book the other day and started working through it. Portion of performance notes for reflections from thelonious monk for guitar. The vignola and conti courses involve a lot of memorizing specific block chords for specific notes, ie. Blue monk play along backing track c key score violin.
I would recommend a combination of three booksvideos, robert contis assembly line, vignola truefire 123chord melody, and the old mel bay chord melody book. Listen to the way thelonious plays a countermelody is his left hand during the last 4 bars of the tune. This companion to the mastering the jazz guitar chord melody solo book gives added depth to the chord melody solos. Learn from jazz great thelonious monk acoustic guitar. Download your blue monk chord melody, solo, and more pdf here. Choose and determine which version of blue monk chords and tabs by monk thelonious you can play. So, as you would expect, thelonious monk chord voicings have a bit of bite read dissonance. For example, monk favored unconventional chord voicings, often including. This arrangement of monks mood is a wonderful treatment in a classic solo guitar setting, a striking counterpoint to sharps approach. Born to be blue guitar chord melody sheet music for guitar. When you play in a combo without a piano or another guitar player, its a good idea to harmonize your melodies. Blue monk by thelonious monk digital sheet music leadsheet.
Hi, i dont post on forums much, but i have been working on chord melody playing for about a year now and thought i would pipe in to offer my 2 cents. If youre a classical player looking into jazz, youve finally found it. Thelonious monk blue monk sheet music notes, chords. Blue monk is a popular blues composed by the great thelonious monk. This is a solo guitar arrangement of the jazz standard autumn leaves, popularized by johnny mercer. Jazz piano collection thelonious monk below are recordings and pdf transcriptions from a thelonious monk transcription book which is seemingly impossible to purchase. With guitar tablature, standard notation, chord names, performance notes, guitar notation legend and introductory text. Monk s countermelody is worth learning and using as part of your arrangements. The alternate voicingfingering is not a whole lot easier. Round midnight jazz guitar chord melody by thelonious monk.
This is one of the best solo guitar jazz arrangement books ive ever bought. Announcing the quintet of chord melody ebooks from ukulele mike lynch. It was first recorded in 1954 for his thelonious monk trio album and is a musthave for any jazz repertoire. Chord melody for guitar part 1 in this lesson i am trying to give you a few approaches to come up with your own chord melody arrangement for a song. For comparison, the thelonious monk fake book c edition which i also have, is basically a book of melodic heads, with the chord names, with some notations of horn, bass, and piano fills and intros, but of course there is no guidance whatsoever on useful fingering or voicings for guitar. Thelonious monk fake book online private guitar lessons via zoom.
The great jazz standard blue monk for jazz guitar now with audio and pdf with chord melody, solo, and more. Chord melodies are often used in formats where guitar is the sole harmonic instrument. The first part focuses on harmonized scales that can be used to create chord melody, but the real meat an potatoes of this book are the studies in the second half. You will not find all the jazz standards fully analyzed anywhere else. Jazz guitar chord melody solos 2012, paperback at the best online prices at. Piano sheet music in pdf format, classical, jazz, blues, standards, rock, pop, movie music, etc. In addition to all this content, you also get some good chord shapes to get you started on comping over the blues. The 84 jazz guitar equations makes it easy to play over difficult changes. All chords are shown in diagram form for easy speed learning as well as standard notation and tab. Thelonious monk for guitar paperback march 1, 1999. This solo guitar arrangement of a great bb blues by thelonious monk is an example of how to use passing chords voicings, parallel, diatonic. I have been playing and studying guitar for more than 30 years. Transpose, print or convert, download jazz pdf and learn to play piano score in minutes. If you know what that means, you can see that this book is for serious guitar players only.
Welcome to the youtube channel of chris whiteman, jazz guitarist based in richmond, va. Blue monk by michael drexler on soundcloud spartiti. The concepts and fingerings presented in this book have been developed by. Charlie christian the guitar chord shapes of charlie christian book and cd chord shapes form a visual frame of reference for the player, so it is easier to play the single note, improvised hornlike lines out of chord shapes that charlie christian was noted for. Some of the material here is part of the git rhythm level iii core class, which bruce also wrote and this book could also be used as a nice followon to rhythm guitar the complete guide. Suggested listeningthelonious monk s thelonious monk trio album recorded in 1954. Though not a guitarist, thelonious monk is one of the most commonly studied jazz musicians. You can do this on the guitar by using open strings in novel ways. It includes melody, chords and bass to be played by a single intermediate fingerstyle guitar player. Thelonious monk blue monk sheet music leadsheet in bb. The music of thelonious monk arranged for fingerstyle guitar is a unique dvd lesson that only duck baker could have put together. This amazing collection is unique in the jazz world. Learn to play guitar by chord tabs using chord diagrams, transpose the key, watch video lessons and much more. I also bought a course by frank vignola 123 jazz chord melody which was also good.
I added the chord analysis and a possible fingering if you have any improvements, please let me know in the comments. A literal copy of barry galbraiths handwritten chord melody arrangement. Solo jazz guitar chord melody arrangements 1 chris whiteman. Get thelonious monk blue monk sheet music notes, chords. Jan 28, 2018 if you would like to support my channel, please consider a patreon membership here.
Thelonious monks chord progressions listed on songtrellis. Cross indexing makes this manual extremely easy to use and regardless of what style of music you play, we know you will find. Print and download round midnight jazz guitar chord melody sheet music. Gary wittner, meanwhile, has literally written the book on thelonious monk for guitar. B e 7 b f7 b b 7 e e 7 b f7 b f7 f7 b f7 blues 1 blue monk thelonius monk. Thelonious monk chord voicings the jazz piano site. Thelonious monk for guitar by thelonious monk guitar. Note that no jazz standard complete chord melodies are included and emphasis is more on the chord part than the process of adapting a melody. May 31, 2010 blue monk was written by thelonious monk. This is often one of the first 12 bar blues tunes that a jazz musician will learn.
There are alternate chord voicings available at the end of each chart. Music of thelonious monk stefan grossmans guitar workshop. It was originally written for the opera porgy and bess. Ask ne now chords only balue bolivar baluesare bolivar blues chords only. Print and download lead sheets for blue monk by thelonious monk in bb major. Introduction a chord is a set of tones producing a melody and is played on a guitar. Chord melody songs for low g ukulele chord melody songs for low g ukulele. This 4th book in the jazz science series contains 9 newly developed single line improvised jazz guitar solos designed to supercharge your soloing. In this blog post, i will walk you through a 3step process to. Jazzbluessoul ragtime standards sheet music sheet music. Blue monk thelonious monk melody lesson for guitarists. Thelonious monk is a bebop pianist known for his dissonant, quirky and asymmetrical style, rhythm and harmony. As well, to help bring these licks to life, there is a sample blues solo at the end of the.