This video is on a chord melody arrangement of Autumn Leaves. It shows you how it is constructed and giving you different options in terms of Jazz chords and reharmonizations that you can use in your own jazz guitar chord melody arrangements

One of the things that I learned the most from when it comes to harmony and comping was harmonizing melodies, so making chord melody arrangements. When I was starting out I harmonized everything I could and that taught me so much about how to comp with more melody and play chords under a theme.

In this video, I am going to show you an arrangement of Autumn Leaves that uses drop2 voicings and you can use this as a solo arrangement but it also works great if you are playing in a band. I am also going to add some extra tricks to give you a way to add some color to your own songs.

Autumn Leaves - Shell-voicing Chord Melody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_prQirfAsKk&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcFgp6um_vcEOFDqi5RW1wHl&index=1

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Content:
00:00 Intro
00:47 Chord Melody Arrangement
01:58 When To Add Chords
03:18 Learn the Melody and be practical
05:15 Right Hand Technique
06:11 2nd A and some more chord movement and tritone subs
07:40 Reharmonizations on Autumn Leaves
08:07 B-part - Problem Solving And Taking the easiest solution
09:33 Chromatic passing chords - (it's' actually Free Jazz with voice-leading!)
10:03 A Few options for minor II V reharmonization
10:50 Chromatic II V's
11:40 Wes would do this
12:23 Strange maj7 solution
13:08 Different types of great chords to end on.
13:55 The IV7 option (bass players favorite)
14:34 Neapolitan subdominant
15:36 Jim Hall's Tritone sub
16:34 Shell-voicing Chord Melody of Autumn Leaves
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