Let\u2019s stay on Stella . As a reminder, Martin Taylor wrote a great book on playing jazz guitar. Part of this book has you working through arranging some great songs using CAGED to build the chords. I like this because building by systems works well for me, rote memorization does, too, but I really like systems and guidelines.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I started reading the chart from The Real Book and remembered how much I hate the symbol notation, so I made up a table for you on how to interpret the symbols.<\/p>\n
Now, with that in mind, let\u2019s jump into it.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the lead sheet. And because life is difficult, here\u2019s the lead sheet in PDF.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, this is quite a lot of chords indicated in that cypher and goofy font designed to look like handwriting. What in the ever living hell is this? Let\u2019s look at what\u2019s actually in the song.<\/p>\n
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Now, here\u2019s the next step. Mark up your lead sheet with the notes of each chord as they appear. We\u2019re going to think like Martin Taylor does, with a virtual four voices on the guitar. The virtual soprano will be the melody line, the virtual bass will be, of course, the bass line. Depending on what where we decide to play these notes, inner voices will become easy and logical, and we will generate CAGED positions.<\/p>\n
Go ahead, mark it up. I\u2019ll see you next time.<\/p>\n
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