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If you're a guitar or piano player, one important

thing to be able to do is chord melody, playing the chords and the melody of a jazz standard

at the same time. But this presents a particular challenge, especially for jazz guitar players.

So what are the basics of chord melody and how do you do it? Let's talk about it.

What's up, Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards. So what musicians just like like you, learn how to play jazz all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to another quick win episode of the podcast. By the way, there is a video version of this podcast episode available at learn jazz standards.com. Could be a little bit helpful to watch the video for this episode.

So do check it out if you think will be helpful.

If you're listening only audio, that's okay too.

You'll actually learn quite a few things as well.

So I'm going to walk you through some strategies that I use to play chord melody on my guitar.

But if you're a piano player or even a non-cordal instrument there's still

things that you can learn here from walking through my process so what I'm

gonna do is I'm gonna start creating a chord melody to the tune Pocodots and Moonbeams

it's a beautiful jazz ballad. So this is a great opportunity.

Now, the basics of chord melody are we need to find the melody notes and match them with the chords.

So it goes out saying that you need to know the melody just by itself really well.

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