Jazz Chord Melody Playbook

Hello, I'm Frank Vignola. Welcome to the Jazz Chord Melody Playbook!

Learning how to play chord melody arrangements might appear to be a long and complicated process of memorizing hundreds of voicings and an encyclopedia worth of jazz theory, but it's actually much easier than it looks IF you break it down into a series of logical, simple steps.

That's exactly what we'll do here in this Jazz Chord Melody Playbook and you'll play your way through the course - no tedious theory or boring exercise to struggle through.

We'll work my system through 5 chord melody arrangements, each featuring 3 levels of each arrangement, from very basic to advanced just like I would play it on the bandstand. The first step of my system is learning the basic chord changes of the tune. Then we'll learn the melody.

In the Level 1 arrangement, you'll learn how to play the melody along with the prevailing root bass note, or simple prevailing triad. The Level 2 arrangement, we'll play the melody along with chords and extensions. Then in the Level 3 arrangement, we'll play the arrangement as if I were performing it on the bandstand adding fills, groove, tempo and more sophisticated chord voicings. This is exactly the approach I use myself getting a chord melody arrangement up to speed, and this same system has been used by hundreds, if not thousands of my students very successfully. I'm very confident it will work for you as well.

Everything is tabbed and notated and you'll be able to sync the tab and notation to the video using TrueFire's learning tools. You can also loop or slow down any of the videos so you can work with the lessons at your own pace.

Grab your guitar and let's dig in!