- Hi everybody, my name is Jens Larsen.
In this video, I'm going to take
the famous jazz standard, Autumn Leaves
and then I'm going to go over a fairly simple
and easy to play, but also very effective
chord melody arrangement of that song.
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In this arrangement, I'm playing the melody
in the lower octave, so that means that it is down here
and the chord voicings that I'm using
are pretty much all then shell voicings,
so just so you have some exercises
to get those into your fingers,
if you're not already used to them,
here are some shell voicings
in the key of G minor or B flat major
and the next string set.
It's likely that you already know shell voicings,
so you don't need to work too much on these exercises,
but if you wanna check out shell voicings in more detail,
I do have some really old videos on them on my channel,
that you can take a look at.
The way the arrangement is working
is that the melody of Autumn Leaves
works pretty well as a sort of call response
with the harmony,
so every time we get a melodic statement
like the first one, so
and then we have the sustained note
and here's where I'm gonna add the chords
and that's pretty much how I'm working
with the entire arrangement, except for a few places,
let's just check out the arrangement.
The first thing you wanna do,
if you're playing a chord melody arrangement
or if you're making your own chord melody arrangement
is probably to make sure that you really know the melody,
so in this case, of course,
the sheet music has the melody and the chords,
so the way you wanna do this is probably
just play through it and then leave out the chords
and that's kind of easy, because most of the time,
the chords are sort of isolated
and out by themself in the arrangement,
because it's so the call responds all the time,
so you can just play through the melody like,
and then you start adding the chords.
One thing you should notice is that once I've played,
I've laid out the melody in a way
that I can easily get to the chords along the way,
so I'm playing the first part,
the last middle note I'm playing with my fourth finger,
because then I can easily add
the C minor and go to F7 under it,
then the next melodic phrase,
same idea, fourth finger on the D
and then that makes it easy to play
both the B flat major seven and the E flat major seven,
minor two five here, same thing.
So in my fingering, when I'm playing the melody,
I'm already thinking ahead, because I know
that even though I'm playing this melody note alone,
I need to add the chord under it
and then the second time,
all the same and I get a different melody
and here, because the melody knows a G
and there's none the voicing,
you can't really just prepare for the voicing,
you just have to skip down and play the G minor six.
Then we go to the B part,
so in this phrase, I can add the chords in the same place
as I did in all the A parts,
so what I'm doing here is I'm just playing the melody
and then on the fourth beat, I'm adding the A,
minor seven, flat five shell voicing, going to D7
and then I can go back to the same type of call response
as I did in the beginning
and here on the G minor six,
I have the B flat on the melody,
so I can also be prepared for that
and then I'm gonna get this here again,
this C is in the melody on the C minor,
so I can't really keep that in the voicing,
so I'll just give up and play
and then the F7 melody
and here again, back to just keeping the D
clearly already preparing for the voicing.
Now we get to this part of the melody,
which is a little bit more tricky to play,
because there's more happening with the chords,
here I'm playing the melody
and the chords at the same time, so,
first a complete A half diminished, drop three voicing
and then the shell voicing,
on the D7, I'm not putting a D7,
you could put a D7 under this without a root,
you don't really have room for having
both a D and a C between this note and this note,
so I'm just leaving that out, that sustain has a meli note,
then I'll play a D7 shell voicing
and then skip up to the,
to the flat nine on the D and then
a complete G minor seven drop three voicing,
C7 shell, then I'm moving up to this F minor seven,
shell voicing, B flat seven shell voicing,
so this is all stuff, that's not melody,
it's just harmony moving, so
and then we get the melody again
and the melody goes from G up to a C on the E flat
and I'm playing that with this E flat six shell voicing
and in the final cadence,
again the melody on the D7 is solo,
then I'm just not using a chord
and I think that's also something that's important
to think about with chord melody arrangements,
chord melody arrangements are there
to add chords to the melody,
but the most important thing is the melody,
so I'm not gonna change the melody to add a chord
and I'm also not gonna leave out part of the melody
to add a chord, the melody is the most important thing,
that's what you're harmonizing,
so in this case, I don't really have room,
I could have added like a booglis, a D7 under it,
but in this case, I just left
just a melody and then add the final G minor six voicing.
When you're playing this chord melody arrangement
as I'm playing it here,
I would say that it would be a good idea
for you also to look at how you can change it
and make it your own thing, try to make variations on it
and find a way to make it your personal arrangement
and also in that way, you can also start thinking
about how you can take the voicings that I'm using here
and the solutions that I have
for playing the voice into the melody
and move them to other songs,
so that you can start making
your own chord melody arrangements,
because it's of course fun
to play a chord melody arrangement
and it's nice to have something you can play
as a solo arrangement on the guitar,
but at the same time I think it's more fun
to actually explore how to make your own harmonizations
and your own chord melody arrangements.
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