"Blue In Green" Chord Melody & Analysis

Have you ever wished you could play on guitar some of those rich, colorful chord voicings, that you often hear in the music of jazz pianists like Bill Evans? I know I did for the longest time, however when I examined some piano transcriptions I found most of them physically impossible to reproduce on the guitar....that is, until I learned to combine open and fretted strings as a means to incorporate intervals of a minor second within chords.

In this video I you'll learn a fingerstyle chord melody arrangement of "Blue In Green"...a gorgeous ballad originally recorded by Miles Davis on his classic "Kind of Blue" album. Throughout the lesson I teach you how to play several of the chords as clusters. These are "one of a kind" voicings which feature one or more intervals of a maj/min second. They also incorporate several nested upper extensions. These, by the way, are different varieties of 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths, tightly sandwiched between the basic chord tones.

INDEX of Lesson Segments:
-Performance of "Blue In Green" 2:48
-Instruction of measures 1 and 2 6:23
(IMPORTANT: There is an error in the tab displayed for Meas. 2. The 2nd fret assigned to the 5th str. should be on the 7th fret/6th str. Same applies to the 2nd meas. of the ending.)
-Instruction of measures 3 and 4 10:43
-Instruction of measures 5 and 6 14:14
(IMPORTANT: There is an error in the tab displayed for meas.5 (Cmaj7#11). It should read from 6th to 1st str: 8, x,7,0,7,0,0. It has been corrected in the downloadable PDF.)
-Instruction of measures 7 and 8 18:00
-Instruction of measures 9 and 10 21:10
-Instruction of ending 23:51


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