Tim Lerch - How to use the Melodic Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
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to purchase the Paperback or Kindle from Amazon or the searchable PDF from Guitarvivo
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I just wanted to share with all of my followers how I think the new book can be most useful. Maybe you'll find other ways as well, if you post about it in the comments. Hope you all find this video helpful. You also might like to hit the "Thanks" button to show your appreciation.
Beautiful approach and great teaching. Thank you maestro.
Ole Tim ? Who said Tim is old ?
He is just one of the gentlest guitar players on the planet.
Ole Tim's been at it awhile. He got the sweetest tone out of a Telecaster I'll ever hear.
Thank you to both of you for a great synopsis of the book. Tim is a master at solo jazz guitar!
As a singer/guitarist, I was thrilled at 15:25 and 27:03 when you started talking about vocal accompaniment. Solo guitar arrangements for jazz standards are too busy, but then I’m stuck with basic chord charts. I’ve had very little luck finding guidance on how to create interesting guitar arrangements for vocal accompaniment, and this book sounds perfect!
I can't really believe it
I think it's my teacher Tom Monda who initially gave me your name a long time ago and I didn't really bother to check, but your book fixes the single hardest thing I've yet to face when trying to learn Jazz and it's a method. thank you so much.
Thanks Tim. I've learned a lot from you. I think you're one of the great guitar teachers.
Just picked up my copy, very grateful for the wealth of information present especially in terms of chord voicings. I know maybe a handful of chord melody arrangements that I had learned by using my ear and some basic changes.. What a Wonderful World, Autumn Leaves, some 12 bar blues.. rock and pop tunes.. excited to see what new chord voicings can do for my playing on my journey through the world of jazz guitar! Thanks Tim!
Ps If you have the time and desire I would gladly like to see a method book from you as I think I could benefit from some practical examples.
My new book Melodic chord phrases is coming very soon
Just ordered this tonight based off this "demo".
The video really explained the process well and I look forward to expanding my own abilities and familiarity with melodies in general.
Not to mention how nice it is when such a likable personality also offers high quality material worth buying.
Thanks very much for this. I am a big fan of your teaching.
Great. Thank you
I have been playing chord melody style solo guitar with basically this same approach for decades. I know many Standards from memory, and when I see a lead sheet, I automatically see the relationship of the melody to each chord as you describe. Where I run into trouble is when I have to play the melody by itself. The chord progression helps me remember (or deduce) the melody.
I have embarrassed myself when playing with other people by not being able to play the melody independently of tunes that I have played for years. It is hard for me to practice single-note melodies without thowing in chords.
I hear you. I think it’s something that needs to be practiced. Ultimately, I think playing the Melody as an individual thing of beauty is very important to playing solo guitar.
Thanks so much, Tim. Your beautiful teaching style and superbly relaxed handle on guitar playing truly delights me. I’ve been attempting stuff like this for years. At 82, playing guitar since aged 14, I must be approaching the legendary 10,000 hours threshold and I’m hoping your book will carry me across the line. Let you know! 🤣 Ordered my copy this morning. I’ve been working from Ted Greene’s books and I sense a a seamless transition to your book coming up. 🌸
What a wonderful addendum to the new book👍!
21 seconds into the video I had to buy the book. Thank you Tim 🙌
Hi Tim,
I just wanted to say that this book seems absolutely genius. You've consolidated the solution to a constant effort that I've been trying to conquer myself over the past year & a half or so. I'm picking up the pdf copy at the moment, but hope to sometime in the near future get a paperback shipped out to Australia (hopefully that's viable). In my tiny opinion you deserve all of the praise you receive for this - I hope it becomes as legendary as 'chord chemistry' or the likes.
Thank you so much
Thanks for this additional info on your new book! 🎸🎶
Another gem of instructional video!
Great book which has made my stale standards sound fresh again. Thanks Tim ✌️🎸🎶☀️
Great lesson Tim. Had a cup of coffee with guitar in hand and followed you around the fret board this morning. I’ve had the book a couple of weeks now. It’s a great tool! 5 stars thanks for inspiring my practice
This is so good
Just bought the book
Tim I´m truly grateful for this wonderful book and video, thanks a lots!
Ordered a copy! Can’t wait to create! Thank you!
Just placed my order for the book right now through Amazon. I look forward to it. Thank you Mister Tim.
I bought about 2 weeks ago. I have get the time to dive in!
To infinity and beyond.
my copy is on the way as I speak, looking forward to digging in :)
I've always been bad at theory but I hope this book will be a nice start to wrapping my head around it a little more
bought the book its a great reference and tool for anyone creating music regardless of the genre. CV.
Thank you so much, my book has arrived and this video is so helpful in how to use it well! looking forward to any forthcoming books you publish ;-)
I especially liked the Quartal stuff…! Thank you…
There are plans for a book down the road a little bit that specializes in Quartal Harmony and its usefulness in comping and solo guitar
@@TimLerchGuitar That would be amazing, Id purchase a copy!
@@proverbs11vs30 count me in
My copy came in last week and I grabbed one of your Truefire masterclasses a few days ago. Looking forward to working my way through the book. Cheers!
THanks for this Directory. As you say, it IS a new and much needed offering, and just using it for a few days has been amazing to building up my harmonic palette and has taught me theory from a new angle. I just set out to learn a new tune with this book at the centre of the practice. I chose It Could Happen To You, as it turns out, which is a good one because it is played is so many different keys. Started with the melody, learned that and then numbered all the notes underneath (and discovered a lovely melodic pattern too where the melody in bars 13-15 climb through a 3-4-5-6-7 in terms of their relative pitches within their chords, but are 3-4-1-2-3 against the tonal centre. Cool....! Then I made an arrangement with some fairly compact voice leading and when I got stuck, consulted the book and found some stunning voicings that just hadn't occurred to me although they were dead obvious. The book is amazing in breaking patterns and having one look at what is right in front of you with new eyes and ears. It offers some interesting ways to get both theory and voicings into the ear and helps create a lovely method for arranging chord melody versions of tunes on this ridiculous instrument!
Just got the book. Wanted to be able to free myself on the fretboard and expand my knowledge of chords. I’m
Stuck playing the same things
Found it in german amazon - my first chord melody book after having bought Ted Greene's 2 books some 40 years ago !
Tim! Just got my /your book (hard copy) today! So, this video is apropos today no doubt! Thanks again!!!
Btw: one of the very few chord books where your examples are actually legible!!! Don't even need a magnifying glass to discern the chords so wonderfully clear at 3 feet away!
Great stuff ! Thank you Tim .
Awesome as always Tim! I'm not sure if buying the PDF or Kindle, but count me in. An yes I'm one of those guitar players who plays the chords an reinvent the melody to fit my known chords voicings Ha ha ha!
Man, am I ready for this!!
Great book Tim!🎸🎵
Great stuff! Just got the book, can't wait to dig in :)
I am waiting to receive my copy :D 👍
excellent Tim
This is a genius approach to the chord voicings book. That was always my question when I'd attempt a chord melody arrangement; where is a voicing with this melody note? Sometimes I'd have an answer but sometimes not. I never dedicated a chunk of my time, several months lets say, to get better at this and part of the reason was occasional lack of knowing the voicings I needed to play above the melody note. Just ordered a book and will pick a tune to work out and hopefully I'll get my answer when I get stuck.
Really outstanding book; nice to have this on YT since as a consumer to obtain this YT is the easiest way. Although there is a link when purchased the book. Check out True Fire for a bunch of lessons of mr Lerch.
Looking forward to getting my copy of the book & getting between the pages Tim...thanks for the inspiration as always.
Just ordered the book :)
Tim is my absolute favorite guitarist right now, I would love to take an intensive guitar study with him if he even offers it, also Tim i see you do a lot of clinics out West obviously because you are from there but will you be doing any camps or studies on the East Coast?
Thank you. There is nothing scheduled at this time but I’m open to anything. I’m working on a workshop in the Detroit area in the spring.
@@TimLerchGuitar Thanks so much for replying to me made my day! I will keep my eye open on the Detroit workshop, Just bought your book waiting for its arrival.. Thanks for being a great teacher of the instrument, I watch all your vids on here, Thanks, good Sir!
Great breakdown! This is just what I’ve been looking for. Just ordered the hard copy. I was wondering if the purchase of the book gives access to the PDF files, as is sometimes the case?
Buying it
Could you possibly do an example of a pop tune like a Beatles tune or something that is mostly just triad chords? Would be great to see how this applies to something more basic like that. Thanks in advance
This guy can sing too!
Será posible, traducción en español. Me gusta mucho aprender por este medio. Muy importante. Gracias.
I wonder if some computer whiz can make a program using this
Será posible, la enseñanza en español. Gracias
Looks like it's selling out quick!
It’s print on demand so it shouldn’t sell out : )
❤️🙏👍🇨🇦🙋🏼♂️
Was wondering if this book deals with harmony in such an explicit way as the barry harris method? Thanks Tim, love your playing!
No, this book isn’t a method book, it’s a compendium of voicings organized by the top voice.
@@TimLerchGuitar do you recommend the barry harris system for someone who has a little bit of chord substitution experience? are there better methods? thanks again tim.
Interested in buying the book on Kindle. Wondering if it would also include the video lessons when buying the Kindle version?
The link for the video content is on page 6 in all of the formats, not sure how kindle works but you can access the extra content by using the link even if you have to type it in to your browser.
🍩 thanks a lot
Hi Tim, just received melodic jazz guitar. I’m 76 and have been wanting to learn and understand melodic chord playing. Been playing all my life but am trying to understand the chord structures written in A as in the book. My question is do I just transition the chord shapes in the book to get the “sound” that fits the melody ? So if I understand correctly if my melody is in F do I drop 5 tones as outlined in the chord chart ? Unfortunately at my age I’m a little thick….lol. Thanks for your patience.
Hi Tom, to keep the page count down and avoid redundancy we decided to use A as the root to all the chords in the book. So you have to transpose the chord in the book to meet your requirements, as you mentioned to make an F type chord you'll transpose the chord in the book down or up to F. at the begining of the book there is an explanation of using interval numbers to get the desired melody note and with a bit of messing around and familiarization, the same interval numbers can be used to transpose as well. Keep at it you'll start to get light bulbs soon!.
@@TimLerchGuitar thanks Tim for the speedy reply, I’ll stay at it.
How does it look inside ? there is no example of a typical page available.....
Amazon has a “look inside “ feature that allows you to see almost 1/3 of the book.
Would you recommend this book for someone starting jazz guitar?🎸
It’s a reference book but not a method. It would be a very good thing to have in your library and I’m sure you’ll be able to use it for a very long time as you progress.
@Timothy Lerch thank you Mr Lerch! I'm excited to learn jazz guitar! Thank you for being an inspiration!🎸