![]() In that way the chord pairs become: Cm7-F7, Bbmaj7-Ebmaj7, Aø-D7 and a final Gm6 chord. This means that the chords can be paired together and played in between the phrases. The A part of this song has the same structure for all phrases: a pickup and a long note. Really knowing the melody well and being comfortable moving it around the neck is essential when you start making your own chord melody arrangements (which should be 20 minutes after checking out this lesson…).Īutumn Leaves Chord Melody arrangement – The A part It is written out in the places where I want to play the melody so that I can easily fit chords under it. I have written out the melody for the first 8 bars of the song. This is because we are playing the melody and adding the chords, not the other way around (hopefully). The first place to start with chord melody is learning the melody! In fact it would be a more appropriate name if we turned it around: Melody Chord. For each exercise I start with the lowest possible chord and then move up one octave. In the exercises below I have the diatonic chords of G minor first with the root on the E string and then with the root on the A string. Most of the chords that I use here are shell voicings, so it is a good idea to check those out in G minor. This makes it easy to add chords while the long note is sounding. You cna think of the first phrase as an example. The melody of Autumn Leaves is mostly a pick-up with followed by a single long note on the heavy bar. To learn the chord melody we need some chords to play with the melody. ![]() ![]() Learning some useful Shell-voicings for the song This also allows for using the melody in the lower octave that often sounds a little fuller. The arrangement is using call-response to also allow the chords to add some groove to. The form of Autumn Leaves is AAB where A is 8 bars and B is 16 bars, so it is a 32 bar form. This is not the key from the real book, but it is the most common key for performing the song. The key that I am using for Autumn Leaves in this arrangement is G minor. Autumn Leaves – The Song and the Chord Melody Arrangement ![]()
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