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Autumn Leaves is a great song to get starting playing an easy chord melody arrangements on guitar. This famous jazz standard is both a great melody and a fairly easy option to play an easy chord melody. In this lesson I will go over a chord melody arrangement of Autumn Leaves that I made. The chords I am using are for the biggest part simple 3-note voicings called shell-voicings and I have also included some exercises to check those out.

You can scroll down and download the PDF of the Arrangement at the end of the page. Case 1845c skid steer serial numbers generator. Autumn Leaves – The Song and the Chord Melody Arrangement The key that I am using for Autumn Leaves in this arrangement is G minor. This is not the key from the real book, but it is the most common key for performing the song.

The form of Autumn Leaves is AAB where A is 8 bars and B is 16 bars, so it is a 32 bar form. The arrangement is using call-response to also allow the chords to add some groove to. This also allows for using the melody in the lower octave that often sounds a little fuller. Learning some useful Shell-voicings for the song To learn the chord melody we need some chords to play with the melody. The melody of Autumn Leaves is mostly a pick-up with followed by a single long note on the heavy bar.

You cna think of the first phrase as an example. This makes it easy to add chords while the long note is sounding. Most of the chords that I use here are shell voicings, so it is a good idea to check those out in G minor. In the exercises below I have the diatonic chords of G minor first with the root on the E string and then with the root on the A string. For each exercise I start with the lowest possible chord and then move up one octave. Chord Melody – It’s about the melody! The first place to start with chord melody is learning the melody!

In fact it would be a more appropriate name if we turned it around: Melody Chord. This is because we are playing the melody and adding the chords, not the other way around (hopefully). In example 3, here below.

I have written out the melody for the first 8 bars of the song. It is written out in the places where I want to play the melody so that I can easily fit chords under it. Really knowing the melody well and being comfortable moving it around the neck is essential when you start making your own chord melody arrangements (which should be 20 minutes after checking out this lesson). This is a blue print for your own chord melody arrangements I hope you can have fun playing through my arrangement and start to make it your own with variations and changes to the chords! For me, the most fun part of chord melody is making your own arrangements! I think you should start trying to figure out how to do so as fast as possible. You can play other peoples arrangements as well, but there is no reason why you should not be creative with your own harmonizations and voicings!

Learning to solo on Autumn Leaves is of course also a part of playing it as a Jazz Guitarist. One approach to this using the arpeggios of the song is covered in this lesson: How To Make Your Own Chord Melody Arrangements! If you want to see my structured approach to making a chord melody for a standard then you should consider checking out this lesson. Jazz Guitar Insiders Facebook Group Join 600+ Other Jazz Guitarists 🎸Join us in the Facebook Jazz Guitar Group Community: Download the Free PDF You can also download the PDF of my examples here by signing up for my mailing list: Email Address First Name Last Name Submit If you have any questions, comments or suggestions for topics then please let me know. Leave a comment on the video or send me an e-mail. That is the best way for me to improve my lessons and make them fit what you are searching for. Please subscribe to my and feel free to connect with me via, or to keep up to date with new lessons, concerts and releases.