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Essentials: Advanced Chord Melody
Advanced Techniques and Melodic Approaches for Jazz Chord Melody
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About this course
Chord melody is a requisite skill for jazz guitarists. Learning how to take full advantage of the polyphonic qualities of the instrument by playing rhythm, bass and melody simultaneously is certainly challenging but it's also one of the most gratifying skills once you’ve developed the skill.
Frank Vignola’s first two jazz chord melody courses, 1-2-3 Chord Melody and Chord Melody Etudes, taught you the basic skills and jump started your repertoire of chord melody tunes. In this Advanced Chord Melody edition, Franks takes your skills and repertoire to whole new level.
”In this edition, we’ll work through ten advanced chord melody performance studies together, each of which has been written to help develop your chord melody skillset.
We’ll take your chord melody to the next level with more inner-voice movement and chromatics, while tackling more real-world performance tempos. We’ll work with the chord changes for jazz standards like All By Myself, Autumn Leaves, Always, Blue Bossa, I’m Confessin’, But Beautiful Chord, It Had To Be You, Satin Doll, Sentimental Journey, and Somebody Loves Me.
I’ll perform each over a track, break it down for you in detail so you can get it under your fingers, and you’ll have all of TrueFire’s learning tools to work with along the way.”
Frank will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson.
You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar, and let’s dig in with Frank Vignola!
Frank Vignola’s first two jazz chord melody courses, 1-2-3 Chord Melody and Chord Melody Etudes, taught you the basic skills and jump started your repertoire of chord melody tunes. In this Advanced Chord Melody edition, Franks takes your skills and repertoire to whole new level.
”In this edition, we’ll work through ten advanced chord melody performance studies together, each of which has been written to help develop your chord melody skillset.
We’ll take your chord melody to the next level with more inner-voice movement and chromatics, while tackling more real-world performance tempos. We’ll work with the chord changes for jazz standards like All By Myself, Autumn Leaves, Always, Blue Bossa, I’m Confessin’, But Beautiful Chord, It Had To Be You, Satin Doll, Sentimental Journey, and Somebody Loves Me.
I’ll perform each over a track, break it down for you in detail so you can get it under your fingers, and you’ll have all of TrueFire’s learning tools to work with along the way.”
Frank will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson.
You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar, and let’s dig in with Frank Vignola!
What you'll learn
- Execute a complete chord melody arrangement of 'But Beautiful' by Jimmy Van Heusen
- Apply seventh-in-the-bass voicings for richer harmonic movement
- Incorporate off-beat jazz phrasing into chord melody playing
- Balance single-note melody with chord voicings in arrangements
- Develop advanced chord melody skills with more complex voice leading
Release date: 07/01/2021 • 1h 24m runtime
Sample lessons
Always
Overview
Always
Performance
Always
Breakdown
Sentimental Journey Chord Changes
Overview
What's included
32 lessons • 10 charts • 10 Jam Tracks
Essentials: Advanced Chord Melody
Hi, I'm Frank Vignola. Welcome to this Advanced Chord Melody edition of Essentials.
Chord melody is not only a must-know skill for jazz guitarists, it's also some of the most gratifying and enjoyable music that you can make all by yourself on your guitar.
In my first chord melody essentials course, I got you up and running quickly, with a series of simple etudes to impart the essential skill set. In this Advanced Chord Melody Etudes edition, we'll take your chord melody to the next level with more inner-voice movement and chromatics, while tackling more real-world performance tempos.
We'll work through ten advanced chord melody performance studies together, each of which has been written to help develop your chord melody skillset. I'll perform each over a track, break it down for you in detail so you can get it under your fingers, AND you'll have all of TrueFire's learning tools to work with along the way.
Throughout the course, we'll learn advanced chord melody arrangements for popular jazz standard progressions and tunes like Autumn Leaves, Satin Doll, Sentimental Journey, Always, and more.
Playing your way through these ten more advanced studies will absolutely help take your Chord Melody game to the next level. Grab your guitar, and let's go!
Chord melody is not only a must-know skill for jazz guitarists, it's also some of the most gratifying and enjoyable music that you can make all by yourself on your guitar.
In my first chord melody essentials course, I got you up and running quickly, with a series of simple etudes to impart the essential skill set. In this Advanced Chord Melody Etudes edition, we'll take your chord melody to the next level with more inner-voice movement and chromatics, while tackling more real-world performance tempos.
We'll work through ten advanced chord melody performance studies together, each of which has been written to help develop your chord melody skillset. I'll perform each over a track, break it down for you in detail so you can get it under your fingers, AND you'll have all of TrueFire's learning tools to work with along the way.
Throughout the course, we'll learn advanced chord melody arrangements for popular jazz standard progressions and tunes like Autumn Leaves, Satin Doll, Sentimental Journey, Always, and more.
Playing your way through these ten more advanced studies will absolutely help take your Chord Melody game to the next level. Grab your guitar, and let's go!
All By Myself
This is the great standard, "All By Myself" written in 1923 by Irving Berlin. A gorgeous tune. I use chromatic chord movement in this one.
All By Myself
Here I will perform the arrangement of "All By Myself".
All By Myself
Here we'll take a few minutes to breakdown the arrangement in detail.
Autumn Leaves Chord Changes
This is a chord melody solo over the chord changes of "Autumn Leaves". It's a classic progression of 2-5-1 major and 2-5-1 minor.
Autumn Leaves Chord Changes
Here is the performance of the arrangement of "Autumn Leaves".
Autumn Leaves Chord Changes
Now let's breakdown of the arrangement of "Autumn Leaves".
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Reviews
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Ohio5665
Verified buyer
03/04/26
All of Frank Vignola's courses are great and this one is no exception. Lots of useful concepts and knowledge!
Sindibad
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05/18/25
Frank Vignola's Essentials: Advanced Chord Melody
This is the lesson that helps when you don't want to sing.
Silvermike45
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03/28/25
Always close at hand on my computer or phone.
This Frank Vignola program is well designed to add A lot of new chord melody vocabulary to your knowledge base. I particularly like the fact that I can print the pages that I want and I never have to search the house for a misplaced book because it's all on line in my library. Truefire always meets or exceeds expectations.
Hendrix11970
Verified buyer
12/11/24
Road map to musical language.
Definitely a challenge I have to fit it within my schedule but I know it will help me on my journey to becoming a musician with a voice
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