Repertoire - Melody & Chord Arrangements

 

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Repertoire - Melody & Chord Arrangements

 

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Survey of Your Music Knowledge

Taking a survey of your music knowledge is a great start to creating a well rounded plan for further development and increasing your music enjoyment.

I've been asked many times to put together a plan of attack for getting beyond the basics. These lesson pages are intended to provide material for developing your skills and expanding your music knowledge.

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Repertoire for Jazz Guitar

INDEX: [ Real Titles | Humorous Titles ]

What is Repertoire?

NOUN:

1. The stock of songs, plays, operas, readings, or other pieces that a player or company is prepared to perform. 2. The class of compositions in a genre: has excellent command of the chanteuse repertoire. 3. The range or number of skills, aptitudes, or special accomplishments of a particular person or group.

ETYMOLOGY:

French répertoire, from Old French, from Late Latin repertrium.

Here is a sampling of the songs a trypical jazz guitarist needs to learn.

Visit the repertoire lessons page for melody and chord arrangements of mine.

Here is a site where you can find out which fake books contain which song: The Fake Book Index - Seventh String Software

Song List

A

  • A Child Is Born
  • A Foggy Day
  • A Go Go
  • A Night In Tunisia
  • Afro Blue
  • Afternoon in Paris
  • All Blues
  • All My Lovin'
  • All My Tomorrows
  • All of Me
  • All of You
  • All The Things You Are
  • Alone Together
  • Anthropology
  • Au Privave
  • Autumn Leaves

B

  • Back Home In Indiania
  • Billie's Bounce
  • Birk's Works
  • Black Orpheus
  • Blue Bossa
  • Blue In Green
  • Blue Monk
  • Blue Train
  • Blues for Alice
  • Bluesette
  • Body and Soul

C

  • Call Me
  • Caravan
  • Cherokee
  • Chitlin's Con Carne - C Blues
  • C Jam Blues
  • Confirmation
  • Countdown
  • Corcovado
  • Crazy
  • Cute

D

E

F

  • Fly Me To The Moon
  • Four
  • Four on Six
  • Freedie Freeloader

G

H

  • Have You Met Miss Jones
  • Here's That Rainy Day
  • High High the Moon
  • How Do You Keep The Music Playing
  • How Insensative

I

  • I Can't Get Started
  • I Loves You Porgy
  • I Remember Clifford
  • I'll Remember April
  • Impressions
  • Invitation

J

K

  • Killer Joe

L

  • Lady Bird
  • Lady Is A Tramp (The)
  • Le Petite Mambo
  • Lover Man
  • Love Supreme
  • Lush Life

M

  • Maiden Voyage
  • Meditation
  • Michelle
  • Midnight Blue
  • Milestones
  • Misty
  • Moanin'
  • Moondance
  • Moonlight In Vermont
  • Moon River
  • Moonlight Senerade
  • More
  • My Favorite Things
  • My Foolish Heart
  • My Funny Valentine

N

  • Nardis
  • Niama
  • Night and Day

O

  • On A Clear Day
  • Green Dolphin Street (On)
  • Once I Loved
  • One Note Samba
  • Ornithology
  • O'Barquino (Little Boat)

P

Q

R

  • 'Round Midnight
  • Road Song (The)

S

  • Satin Doll
  • Scrapple The Apple
  • Shadow of Your Smile (The)
  • Shiny Stockings
  • Sidewinder
  • So Nice (Summer Samba)
  • Soft Winds
  • Solar
  • Some Day My Prince Will Come
  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  • Song For My Father
  • So What
  • Spanish Eyes
  • Spring Is Here
  • St. Thomas
  • Stardust
  • Stella By Starlight
  • Stompin' At The Savoy
  • Straight No Chaser
  • Suger
  • Summer Samba (So Nice)
  • Summertime
  • Sunny
  • Sweet Georgia Brown

T

  • Take Five
  • Take the 'A' Train
  • Tenderly
  • The Way You Look Tonight
  • There Will Never Be Another You
  • They Can't Take That Away From Me
  • This Masquerade
  • Tune Up

U

V

  • Valse Hot

W

  • Watch What Happens
  • Watermelon Man
  • Wave
  • West Coast Blues
  • What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
  • What Is This Thing Called Love
  • What's New
  • When I Fall In Love
  • When Sunny Gets Blue
  • Witchcraft

X

Y

  • Yesterday
  • You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
  • You Send Me

Z

Humorous Song Names

Here is a list of songs names from recent postings to the Jazz Guitar newsgroup: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz.

Submissions by: Joe Finn, Doug Allen, Joey Goldstien, Jimmy Bruno. (If I forgot someone just let me know.)

A

  • A Christmas Schlong
  • A Day In The Life of a Mule
  • A Day in the Wife of a Ghoul
  • A Month in Tunisia
  • A White Sportcoat and a Pink Crustacean
  • Afternoon in Pear-ass
  • Ah, Sweet Mastery of Wife
  • Ah, Sweet Misery of Lice
  • All Booze
  • All the things You Mar
  • All Them Leaves
  • All You Think You Are
  • Always Some Thin Hair to Remind Me
  • Angel Thighs
  • Angle Eyes
  • Are You Loathsome Tonight?
  • Autumn Heaves

B

  • Baby Won't You Please Go Home
  • Barbrawho?
  • Beaver
  • Black Orifice
  • Blame it on Vermouth
  • Butt Beautiful

C

  • Can't Elope, Ivan
  • Can't Help Shoving That Fan of Mine
  • Cherries Stink and Chapel Possums Bite
  • Chew, Chew Your Lugi
  • Christmastime Means Beer

D

  • Die, Anne
  • Do Nothing Till You Hear Bums Pee
  • Do You Know The Way To Sam's Buffet
  • Do You Know What It Means To Mess Your Blue Jeans?
  • Don't Flame Me
  • Don't Get a Brown, Dutch, Penny Whore
  • Don't Get a Clown Much Anymore
  • Do You Know What It Means To Mess Your Blue Jeans?
  • Dressing Me Mucho
  • Dumb Pain in my Spine

E

  • Emily for gay guys = Emile
  • Everything I Had Is Yours

Ellington Medley:

  • Sat-on Doll
  • Prelude to a Quiche
  • Constipated Lady
  • He's Got a Badge and That Ain't Good

F

  • Foodprints
  • Fry me a Liver

G

  • Gee Baby Ain't I Glued to You
  • Giant Schlepps
  • Girl From West Covina
  • Girl with Emphysema
  • Give Me the Sinful Life
  • Glue Bossa

H

  • Harbor Lice
  • Have A Tequila
  • Have you Wet, Miss Jones?
  • Have Yourself a Hairy Little Swiss Miss
  • Hello Dowry
  • Hello Young Losers
  • Honey Suck My Hose

I

  • I Caught You Under My Twin
  • I Dismember You
  • I Got Kicked Out By You
  • I Guess I'll Have to Change My Pants
  • I Laid a Fart,in San Francisco
  • I Love Pear-ass
  • I Only Have Ice For You
  • I'd Love To Be Loved by Two
  • I'd Love You More if You'd Ever Go
  • I'll Dismember April
  • I'll Fake Romance
  • I'm Getting Cement All Over You
  • I'm Getting Sort of Mental Over You
  • I've Thrown a Custard in Her Face
  • If I Wore A Bell
  • In The Nude
  • Inflatable You
  • Isn't Tit Romantic?

J

  • Juan, Son of Farrah
  • Just Fiends

K

  • Killing Me Softly With Her Thong

L

  • Lady of Pain
  • Let's Brawl and Shove
  • Level Fake Hair
  • Like a Blind, Stoned Cowboy
  • Lullabye of Nerd Land
  • Lush Wife

M

  • Medication
  • Mel'll Drain Ya'
  • Midnight at the Boat Races
  • Moishe, Moishe Moishe
  • Moonlight in Vermouth
  • Mr. Licky
  • Music To Watch Girls Bi
  • Must Hang Sally
  • My Cart Belongs To Daddy
  • My Favorite Flings
  • My Old Phlegm
  • My One and Only Glove
  • My Phony Valentine

N

  • Neuralgia in Times Square

O

  • Oh, You Crazy Goon
  • Oil of Me
  • Old Gang Sign
  • On A Queer Day
  • One O'Clock Dump
  • Oy Ve Maria

P

  • Paint Jane's Infirmary
  • Peg Am I Hard
  • Plague of my Heart
  • Plastical Glass
  • Poisoner of Love

Q

R

  • Ricki Don't Bruise that Lumber
  • Rin Tin Tin Deo

S

  • Satan Doll
  • Sealed With a Knish
  • Send Him the Gowns
  • She's Phony That Way
  • Shit Could Happen to You
  • Simple Mental Journey
  • Sit On A Happy Face
  • Sleazy Living
  • Slightly Out of Spoons
  • Slime Every Fountain
  • Some Hair on My Corned Beef
  • Someday My Pants Will Come
  • Someone to Squat Over Me
  • Stella by Headlights
  • Stolen Comments
  • Summer Nose (The)
  • Summertime and Her Living Room's Sleazy

T

  • That Old Squealing
  • The Chateau Of Your Smile
  • The Craze of Dining Noses
  • The Days of Whining Hosers
  • The Gentile Rain
  • The Girl With Emphezema
  • The Last Time I Saw Pear-ass
  • The Object of my Infection
  • The Sheep of Araby
  • The Summer Nose
  • The Touch of Your Whips
  • The Workin' Girl Talk Son
  • There Will Be Another You (Hindu version)
  • There Will Never Be Another Yew
  • This Nearly Was Mime
  • This Time the Cream's On Me
  • Three Groins in a Fountain
  • Too Old Folks
  • Turdland

U

  • Unchain Melanie
  • Unchanged Malady

V

  • Violence or Your Furs

W

  • Wash What Happens
  • We Bitched, Bothered and Belittled
  • Whacked Tragic Woman
  • What Are You Doing with the Breast of My Wife?
  • When I Look Into Your Thighs
  • When You Swish a Spawning Jar
  • When Your Liver has Gone
  • While My Qatar Gently Weeps
  • Who Can I Turn On?
  • Who's Soggy Now?
  • Will You Still Be Slime?
  • Without a Schlong

X

Y

  • You and the Night and the Mucus
  • You Bite Up My Wife
  • You Can Descend on Me
  • You Don't Blow Me
  • You Go For My Head
  • You Go For My Head
  • You Schlepped Out Of a Dream
  • You'd Be So Sleazy To Love
  • You're Somebody 'Till Nobody Loves You

Z

Ukulele - Melody & Chord Arrangements, with TAB

All ukulele repertoire is available with a downloadable PDF version of the arrangement.

Some songs can be played using the Scorch plug-in from Sibelius

These solo arrangements are presented For educational purposes only

Working on Melody & Chord Ukulele Arrangements for:

  • Classical Gas
  • Aloha Oe
  • Amazing Grace
  • I'll Remember April
  • My Favorite Things
  • Spanish Flea
  • Tijuana Taxi
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps Std Notation & TAB

    With the popularity of Jake Shimabukuro this George Harrison song. I thought I'd tackle it in the original key of A minor/A major. I perform this song in a medley with Here Comes the Sun in concert.

  • Eleanor Rigby Std Notation, Chord Grids & TAB
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • Here Comes the Sun
  • Image
  • Norwegian Wood
  • Penny Lane
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
  • Yesterday NEW Std Notation & TAB

    Here is my solo ukulele arrangement of this classic Paul McCartney, Beatles song.

Guitar - Melody & Chord Arrangements

These solo arrangements are presented For educational purposes only

Tips, Tricks and Tools for Remembering Your Repertoire

Remembering those pesky songs - Lesson

Triggers are a way to remember a song or harmonic progression, independent of a particular key. It is a pathway or road map through a song. I've always had trouble remembering songs and was amazed at how musicians such as Chuck Anderson and Jimmy Bruno can remember so many songs. I'm sure the great remember musicians remember songs this way or in a very similiar manner.

Common Progressions - Lesson

Songs with similiar progressions.

Play-Along MP3 Tracks

All Play-Along lessons are available with MP3 backing track, PDF lead sheet and tips and tricks for learning the song.

Over the course of time I'll be releasing (for FREE) a collection of songs that I had recorded as backing tracks. There are great track for learning tunes, how arrangements are created and a source of material to improv over.

These are the same tracks that I've used in the past for live gigs. (songs in italics coming soon)

Here is a partial list of the songs that will be posted. I have close to 60 of these tracks that I created many moons ago ($$$$)

Here are a few of the tracks that I recorded guitar over awhile back.

Recorded on a Gibson Wes Montgomery L5

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