Among the important things that I found out the most from when it concerns harmony and comping was harmonizing tunes, so making chord melody arrangements. When I was beginning out I harmonized everything I could and that taught me so much about how to comp with more melody and play chords under a theme.
In this lesson, I am going to show you an arrangement of Autumn Leaves that uses drop2 voicings and you can utilize this as a solo plan but it likewise works fantastic if you are playing in a band. Did you see this? am likewise going to add some extra techniques to provide you a way to add some color to your own tunes.
You can mix these two also to alter things up, I will link to that video in the description. The arrangement is quite basic, however I will show you some other things you can add in along the method too in terms of terrific chords for ending a tune and reharmonizing a small II V.
That is what I am carrying out in the very first 8 bars here, the chord is on the Cm7, Bbmaj7 Notification that I play the melody on the leading 3 strings because that is where you will have a simpler time putting a chord under it. Having a great overview of the fretboard and being able to move the melody so that it is much easier to add chords under it is vital for making these plans, however making plans is likewise an excellent method to really get a solid summary of the neck.
Fall Leaves is a melody with an extremely strong motivic structure, in reality, it is the very same concept moved through the changes. This actually makes it simpler to balance since you can simply utilize the reasoning of the melody and let that help you choose when to add chords and also which notes to harmonize.