In this video, I am showing you how to use Block Chords on the guitar by breaking down an arrangement of the melody to Solar.

Playing Block Chords is quite demanding on guitar but at the same time Chord Solos, and Block Chord Harmony is a big part of the Jazz Guitar Tradition. There are countless great Block chord solos by Wes Montgomery, George Benson, and Joe Pass. It is in some ways the highest level of putting chords to a melody.

The Chord Melody arrangement is made using some of the core principles in harmonizing melodies with block chords. This also links a bit to the Barry Harris 6th diminished scale system, though that system has a lot of other aspects as well. Most of the Chord voicings I am using in the arrangement are Drop 2 chords which also links it to the Barry Harris approach.

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Content:
0:00 Intro - 3 Levels of Playing a Melody
0:34 Miles wants Block Chords!
0:42 The benefits of studying this: Options and Chord Solos
1:17 Arrangement of Solar
1:35 Example #1 - The Arrangement
1:57 Harmonizing the Cm melody.
2:17 The Principle - Inspired by Barry Harris
3:02 Split the melody in Chord Tones and Leading Notes
3:14 Example of a Harmonized Cm Scale
3:58 The Problem with "Simple Systems"
4:23 Gm C7 Melody
5:52 Gm7 C7 Slow Example
5:58 Fmaj7 - adding an altered dominant
7:39 Fm7 Bb7
7:51 Fmaj7 - Fm7 - Bb7 Slow
8:01 How To Learn to harmonize in block chords
8:22 Blue Monk Arrangement on Patreon
8:50 Drop 2 Voicings and other options
9:42 Ebmaj7 - Static Chord technique from Bill Evans
11:05 Ebmaj7 - Ebm7 Ab7 - Dbmaj7 - Dø G7 Slow
11:18 This is great together with Chord Solos
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