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How High The Moon
A jazz classic with a common and necessary CHORD PROGRESSION. A need to know standard!
Song Lesson: How High the Moon
Learn How to Play "How High the Moon" on Guitar with Tab, Video Lessons, and More!
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About this course
Taught by our top educators, TrueFire’s Song Lesson System is a hands-on contextual music-making experience designed to accelerate the learning process and simulate a full-band setting. Whatever level of player you happen to be, from beginner to advanced, there’s a rhythm or lead guitar part you can learn to play that sounds great in a full band context.
This How High the Moon Song Lesson is presented by Frank Vignola, one of TrueFire’s top educators.
This Song Lesson Series Includes:
1 Rhythm Guitar Comping Part
1 Melody and Soloing Guitar Part
1 Easy Guitar Strum-Along Part
The Backing Track Includes:
Bass
Drums
Guitar
Click Track
This How High the Moon Song Lesson is presented by Frank Vignola, one of TrueFire’s top educators.
This Song Lesson Series Includes:
1 Rhythm Guitar Comping Part
1 Melody and Soloing Guitar Part
1 Easy Guitar Strum-Along Part
The Backing Track Includes:
Bass
Drums
Guitar
Click Track
About TrueFire’s Song Learning System
Taught by our top educators, TrueFire’s Song Lesson System is a hands-on contextual music-making experience designed to accelerate the song learning process and simulate a full-band setting.
Whatever level of player you happen to be, from beginner to advanced, there’s a rhythm or lead guitar part you can learn to play that sounds great in a full band context.
We designed the system with three distinct educational objectives in mind; 1) Teach accurate rhythm and lead guitar parts; 2) Prepare students for live performance settings; and 3) Emphasize key learnings from each song to advance students’ overall skills.
Meeting these three objectives called for a strict criteria when selecting the songs that we would teach. Whether they were classic or contemporary songs within a genre, they each had to offer key rhythmic, harmonic, and/or melodic techniques that students’ could apply anywhere.
We also had to take full advantage of our learning tools to craft a learning experience that not only met the criteria but also made the learning experience fun and gratifying.
Top Educators
All song lessons are taught by TrueFire’s top educators who not only perform the rhythm and lead guitar parts accurately, they are also experienced in the genre and can communicate the key learnings in a very accessible manner.
Backing Tracks with Vocals
Every song lesson features accurate, high-quality backing tracks including vocals so that you can learn and practice each of the guitar parts in a real-world musical context.
Lesson + Practice Session + Playalong
Every guitar part (some songs feature multiple rhythm and/or lead guitar parts) features a set of 3 videos including a guitar part lesson video, a practice session video, and a playalong video.
Easy Guitar Strum-Along
For players just starting out, every song lesson also includes an easy guitar set of lessons. After learning the easy guitar part, beginners can strum along with all of the backing tracks and vocals.
Advanced Learning Tools
All of the guitar parts are tabbed, notated and synced to the video. With TrueFire’s learning tools, you can also slow down or loop any section of the video to work with the lessons at your own pace.
Premium Only: Multi-Track
Mix, mute, or solo any of the video or audio tracks. Control the mix and immerse yourself!
What you'll learn
- Play and embellish the melody
- Apply comping and voice leading techniques
- Develop an approach to improvising over the changes
- Develop timing and rhythm skills through play-along practice
- Build confidence playing with accompaniment
Release date: 01/11/2022 • 0h 51m runtime
Sample lessons
Full Song Performance
Reference Video of All Guitar Parts
What's included
11 lessons • 7 charts • 4 Jam Tracks
How High the Moon
Hi! I’m Frank Vignola and I’m here to teach you the song How High the Moon. In this lesson we'll be looking at how to replicate the artists playing on this tune by tackling it in bite size pieces then bringing it all back together at the end. I'll also show you an easy guitar part so that you can strum along to the whole song if you're just getting started. Ready to learn How High the Moon? Well grab your guitar and let’s get started!
Full Song Performance
We’ll be starting things off with a full performance of How High the Moon where you will be able to see and hear the multiple different guitar styles you will be learning in the tune. Keep a close eye on the text on the screen as it will indicate the guitar track currently being played.
Easy Guitar | Lesson
In this video we'll be breaking How High the Moon down into simple guitar chords and patterns that you can play, even if you're a beginner. Everything I'm going to show you here will work well with the accurate guitar parts so that you can play along with the full band. The first will be the easiest version then we'll jump into a second rendition that will add a few more pieces and bring you one step closer to the authentic guitar part. Once you feel comfortable with this easier version, I encourage you to try to tackle some of the more sophisticated techniques in the accurate guitar parts as this is a great way to improve your skills.
Easy Guitar | Practice Session
In this video we will be practicing the easy guitar for How High the Moon. Remember to take advantage of tab-sync to ensure you're hitting the proper notes and, if you find the tune is a bit too fast for you, utilize the speed feature to slow things down, get your timing right, and then work your way up to the proper tempo.
Easy Guitar | Playalong
In this video we will perform the tune How High the Moon in its entirety. Join the band and show off your chops using the techniques you've learned along the way.
Melody & Improv | Lesson
Now it’s time to tackle the melody & improv portion of How High the Moon.
Melody & Improv | Practice Session
In this video we will be practicing the melody & improv portion for How High the Moon. Remember to take advantage of tab-sync to ensure you're hitting the proper notes and, if you find the tune is a bit too fast for you, utilize the speed feature to slow things down, get your timing right, and then work your way up to the proper tempo.
+ 4 more lessons
Reviews
11 results
jgordon681
Verified buyer
04/04/24
Very well presented.
Presented professionally anf easy to follow.
camer0n
Verified buyer
03/31/23
Great lesson
Excellent well presented lesson.
Osokin
Verified buyer
12/04/22
How High Is The Moon?
Frank Vignola is an excellent guitarist and teacher, and he and the team at TrueFire have done a great job producing a song lesson featuring the evergreen jazz standard 'How High The Moon'. The lesson provides an opportunity to develop the classic old school ''chug, chug'/four to the floor/Freddie Green approach to rhythmic comping.
jmsab99
Verified buyer
07/22/22
Beautiful song and teaching
An other beautiful song. The songs that Frank Vignola choose are excellents. This one is beautiful and is a great vehicule to improvise on. The way that Frank Vignola teaches (step by step) make easy the learning of the song. The Truefire's interface facilitate the learning (great lessons, teachers and Service).
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