Blue monk guitar chord melody book

Chorld melody arrangements independent guitar, drum and. 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. Jazz guitar chord melody solos 2012, paperback at the best online prices at. 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. Transpose, print or convert, download jazz pdf and learn to play piano score in minutes. Thelonious monk blue monk sheet music notes, chords. Few jazz composers have created a body of work as imaginative and offbeat as that of thelonious sphere monk 19171982. In addition to all this content, you also get some good chord shapes to get you started on comping over the blues. 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. Ask ne now chords only balue bolivar baluesare bolivar blues chords only. Music of thelonious monk stefan grossmans guitar workshop. You can do this on the guitar by using open strings in novel ways. Suggested listeningthelonious monk s thelonious monk trio album recorded in 1954.

I received this book the other day and started working through it. All chords are shown in diagram form for easy speed learning as well as standard notation and tab. This is a solo guitar arrangement of the jazz standard autumn leaves, popularized by johnny mercer. It was first recorded in 1954 for his thelonious monk trio album and is a musthave for any jazz repertoire. Print and download round midnight jazz guitar chord melody sheet music. To learn reading the chords of a guitar, one must have the basic knowledge on what a chord is and how is it produced. Thelonious monk for guitar by thelonious monk guitar. Chord melody songs for low g ukulele chord melody songs for low g ukulele. The great jazz standard blue monk for jazz guitar now with audio and pdf with chord melody, solo, and more.

Monks countermelody is worth learning and using as part of your. 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. Jan 28, 2018 if you would like to support my channel, please consider a patreon membership here. 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. Thelonious monk chord voicings the jazz piano site. It was originally written for the opera porgy and bess. Blue monk thelonious monk melody lesson for guitarists. Cross indexing makes this manual extremely easy to use and regardless of what style of music you play, we know you will find. Welcome to the youtube channel of chris whiteman, jazz guitarist based in richmond, va. In this blog post, i will walk you through a 3step process to. A literal copy of barry galbraiths handwritten chord melody arrangement. Monk s countermelody is worth learning and using as part of your arrangements. Portion of performance notes for reflections from thelonious monk for guitar.

I would recommend a combination of three booksvideos, robert contis assembly line, vignola truefire 123chord melody, and the old mel bay chord melody book. It includes melody, chords and bass to be played by a single intermediate fingerstyle guitar player. I also bought a course by frank vignola 123 jazz chord melody which was also good. This companion to the mastering the jazz guitar chord melody solo book gives added depth to the chord melody solos. Piano sheet music in pdf format, classical, jazz, blues, standards, rock, pop, movie music, etc.

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. Thelonious monk blue monk sheet music leadsheet in bb. If you know what that means, you can see that this book is for serious guitar players only. The concepts and fingerings presented in this book have been developed by. Jazz piano collection thelonious monk below are recordings and pdf transcriptions from a thelonious monk transcription book which is seemingly impossible to purchase. Jazzbluessoul ragtime standards sheet music sheet music. So, as you would expect, thelonious monk chord voicings have a bit of bite read dissonance. Chord melodies are often used in formats where guitar is the sole harmonic instrument. B e 7 b f7 b b 7 e e 7 b f7 b f7 f7 b f7 blues 1 blue monk thelonius monk. May 31, 2010 blue monk was written by thelonious monk.

This is one of the best solo guitar jazz arrangement books ive ever bought. This is often one of the first 12 bar blues tunes that a jazz musician will learn. Thelonious monks chord progressions listed on songtrellis. Introduction a chord is a set of tones producing a melody and is played on a guitar. Choose and determine which version of blue monk chords and tabs by monk thelonious you can play. Thelonious monk fake book online private guitar lessons via zoom. The vignola and conti courses involve a lot of memorizing specific block chords for specific notes, ie. Thelonious monk s chord progressions listed on songtrellis. There are alternate chord voicings available at the end of each chart. Feb 07, 2018 often mistaken as a classical guitar, an acoustic guitar is hollow and is composed of six strings made of steel. Blue monk by michael drexler on soundcloud spartiti. When you play in a combo without a piano or another guitar player, its a good idea to harmonize your melodies. Round midnight jazz guitar chord melody by thelonious monk. If youre a classical player looking into jazz, youve finally found it.

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. You will not find all the jazz standards fully analyzed anywhere else. Download your blue monk chord melody, solo, and more pdf here. Solo part,tablature sheet music by thelonious monk. For example, monk favored unconventional chord voicings, often including. Learn to play guitar by chord tabs using chord diagrams, transpose the key, watch video lessons and much more. Though not a guitarist, thelonious monk is one of the most commonly studied jazz musicians. Jazz piano collection thelonious monk thelonious monk.

Print and download lead sheets for blue monk by thelonious monk in bb major. Get thelonious monk blue monk sheet music notes, chords. On guitar, a chord melody is an arrangement of a song that includes both the melody and the harmony chords simultaneously. The 84 jazz guitar equations makes it easy to play over difficult changes. A guitar players guide to thelonious monk fretboard journal. Blue monk play along backing track c key score violin. 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. Listen to the way thelonious plays a countermelody is his left hand during the last 4 bars of the tune.

Blue monk by thelonious monk digital sheet music leadsheet. Gary wittner, meanwhile, has literally written the book on thelonious monk for guitar. I added the chord analysis and a possible fingering if you have any improvements, please let me know in the comments. 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 arranged the melody of blue bossa the way you would play it in a jazz trio by adding chords to the melody. Born to be blue guitar chord melody sheet music for guitar. With guitar tablature, standard notation, chord names, performance notes, guitar notation legend and introductory text. Announcing the quintet of chord melody ebooks from ukulele mike lynch. I have been playing and studying guitar for more than 30 years. Blue monk solo jazz guitar chord melody with tabs youtube. Ruby my satin shes funny that way somebody loves me. This arrangement of monks mood is a wonderful treatment in a classic solo guitar setting, a striking counterpoint to sharps approach.

Within the first few measures you get the following chord fingering. 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. I have purchased a lot of books on jazz guitar chord melody playing. Learn from jazz great thelonious monk acoustic guitar. The music of thelonious monk arranged for fingerstyle guitar is a unique dvd lesson that only duck baker could have put together. Thelonious monk for guitar paperback march 1, 1999. Solo jazz guitar chord melody arrangements 1 chris whiteman. As well, to help bring these licks to life, there is a sample blues solo at the end of the. Thelonious monk is a bebop pianist known for his dissonant, quirky and asymmetrical style, rhythm and harmony.