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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | This fantastic jazz guitar collection includes Robert Yelin's lush chord melody arrangements in standard notation and tab for 35 favorites: Angel Eyes * Autumn in New York * Body and Soul * Call Me Irresponsible * Fly Me to the Moon * Honeysuckle Rose * How Deep Is the Ocean * I Could Write a Book * I'll Remember April * The Lady Is a Tramp * Lush Life * Midnight Sun * Mood Indigo * My One and Only Love * My Shining Hour * Nature Boy * Polka Dots and Moonbeams * Skylark * Solitude * Speak Low * Take the "A" Train * There Is No Greater Love * Where or When * Witchcraft * and more. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Paperback: | 144 pages | | Publisher: | Hal Leonard Corporation | | Publication Date: | March 01, 2002 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0634028790 | | Product Length: | 11.92 inches | | Product Width: | 9.02 inches | | Product Height: | 0.26 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.77 pounds | | Package Length: | 11.8 inches | | Package Width: | 8.9 inches | | Package Height: | 0.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 10 reviews |
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| | Features | Tablature: Yes144 pagesSize: 12" x 9"Composer: "Robert B. Yelin"ISBN: 0634028790
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24 of 24 found the following review helpful:
Lush arrangements from the "chordiologist" Jul 05, 2008
By Echolucent
Robert Yelin is perhaps the most prolific arranger of guitar music in the classic chord-melody style, popularized by players such as Johnny Smith and Joe Pass. This collection of 35 jazz standards from the 1930's, 40's and 50's is for the serious jazz guitar student, as it puts a four or five note chord under almost every melody note. The first pass through each song can be heavy going, but as the chord changes start to fall under your hand, the richness and warmth of the arrangements begins to shine through. The voicing is especially rich in the ballads (Hoagy Carmichael's Skylark is a good example) where he uses maj13 and min7add4 chords to create feeling of melancholy. Yelin draws from a palate of mainstream jazz chords that are, with a few exceptions, reasonable on the hands, and you will see the same chords used again and again throughout the book. There are occasional four fret stretches but thankfully no five fret handkillers. In addition, the tablature is a welcome sight to those of us (me included) who are slow music readers. Working up these tunes will really put the polish on your chord changes, and give you a cool repertoire of oldies to play unaccompanied, but be ready for some work (and some tired hands) getting these beauties up to tempo.
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Tastefully done jazz arrangements Jun 01, 2010
By K.K.Slider Fan Club
"jc9"
I agree with the other reviewer who mentioned that these chord melody arrangements are somewhat overworked. These chords are very full and your fingers will get quite the workout. Advanced players can insert their own chord substitutions here or there. The good thing about this book overall is that the songs are tastefully done and you will sound like one sophisticated cat. Gives me a good launching point for my own soloing. Songs are in standard notation and guitar tablature.
The 35 Songs included in this book:
-Angel Eyes
-Autumn in New York
-Body and Soul
-Call Me Irresponsible
-Dancing on the Ceiling
-Don't Get Around Much Anymore
-Easy to Love (You'd Be So Easy to Love
-Fly Me to the Moon
-The Gift (Recado Bossa Nova)
-Honeysuckle Rose
-How Deep Is the Ocean (How High is the Sky)
-I Could Write a Book
-I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance
-I'll Remember April
-In a Mellow Tone
-In the Wee Small Hours of the morning
-Just the Way You Are
-The Lady Is a Tramp
-Midnight Sun
-Mood Indigo
-My One and Only Love
-My Shining Hour
-Nature Boy
-On a Clear Day (You can see Forever)
-Polka Dots and Moonbeams
-Skylark
-Solitude
-Speak Low
-Take the "A" Train
-There is no Greater Love
-We'll be Together Again
-Where or When
-Witchcraft
-You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to
16 of 18 found the following review helpful:
good jazz books Nov 18, 2007
By Zsolt Vegh
Greatly overworked arraingments with full chords.If you just play parts of the chords you still sound good. It shows you where the bass notes and melody notes are, this way you can start working out your own fingerstyle arraingements. You can sound like you, not the artist. It is in tab also so any non pro can use it . You might need some good streching for some of the chords but remember you dont need to play the whole chord.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Professional Jazz arrangemtns for the soloist Feb 24, 2011
By Nigel
In this book,in standard notation and in TAB, are very accurate and rich arrangements of the great jazz classics from the 20's through the 50's. The original keys are preserved. The player moves from one 4 or 5 note chord to the next with each melody note and it is not unusual to go from the 3rd position to the 10th in one single measure. However, the chords, once mastered are very guitar player friendly and flow logically in terms of finger position. The arrangements make sense in terms of the music and the guitar and they are not watered down for the novice nor overly difficult for the sake of diffculty. You can always add a few bass notes or drop a chord for a single note run if you wish. The arrangements leave some space for you to do that. Actually, Yelin in the forward says he intends the player to learn from these arrangements and perhaps become inventive. These books are for players whith a lot of playing experience who need some clean no-nonsense arrangements of great golden age jazz tunes to be played by the soloist. Well here they are in a 5 volume series. If you are a guitarist who is comfortable all over the fingerboard and has no issues knotting and unknotting fingers for jazz chords, these books are for you. (ie. Professional Level).
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
comprehensive Dec 16, 2009
By Martin Hatlelid
This is my second Yelin book. I learned very much from another of his books - same name, different tunes. It took me a while to figure out that he harmonizes every note and it's up to you to decide which ones to use. This is a great learning resource.
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