The Thumb and Blues For Wes - Chord Melody: Tabs

Master Every Chord Type - Learn. Understand. Play. Jazz Chords.

✅ 8 Lesson Mini Course with the chords and the tools to play musically
✅ Built for motivated beginners & curious intermediates
✅ All 6 Chord Groups with tasty, pro-sounding tensions
✅ From theory to groove: Comping, Chord Fills, Chord Melody & Chord Soloing
✅ Step-by-step teaching that makes everything click
✅ Tabs, backing tracks, video tutorials included
✅ Sounds pro. Feels doable. Explained with care

🎸 PDF Chord Diagrams and Tabs (incl. notation)
🎸 Guitar Pro Tabs*
🎸 Backing Tracks
❗ Please check the lesson list below for details!

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Chord Library Starter Pack Lesson List:

1. Minor Chords:
   Minor chords until the b-string and high e-string, harmonizing the dorian scale.
   Examples for Comping, chord solos, chord melody.
   + PDF Tab with Chord Diagrams and Examples, 3 Backing Tracks, Guitar Pro Tabs*
   
   
2. Dominant Chords:
   Mixolydian (unaltered) dominant chords until the b-string and high e-string, harmonizing the mixolydian scale.
   Blues in C: We apply these chords to a Blues in C.
   + PDF Tab with Chord Diagrams and Blues in C example, 2 Backing Tracks, Guitar Pro Tabs*
   
   
3. Major Chords:
   Major chords until the b-string and high-e-strin, harmonizing the lydian scale
   + PDF Tab with Chord Diagrams and Examples, 2 Backing Tracks, Guitar Pro Tabs*
   
   
4. II V I - Good Voice Leading:
   The II V I is the most used chord progression in jazz (aka jazz cadence). For a musical flow it’s important to have smooth transitions between the chords, witholut bigger jumps. In this lesson you learn how to have good voice leading comping the melody (head) of a song and during the solo (which requires different comping techniques).
   + PDF Tab with examples, Guitar Pro Tabs*
   
   
5. Altered Chords:
   Learn what alterations are and when you have to alter dominant chords. Harmonising the altered scale, so you have a chord on each scale tone. Examples on how to integrate altered chords in a II V I progression. Examples for Comping, Rhythm Fills, Chord Melody, Chord Solos.
   + PDF Tab with Chord Diagrams and Examples, 5 Backing Tracks, Guitar Pro Tabs*
   
   
6. Half-Diminished Chords:
   The half-diminished chord is necessary for a ii V i in minor, but can also be used as a substitution over dominant chords. You’ll learn all the chords until the b-string and high e-strng, all over the fretboard. Then we’ll apply these chords over several ii V i examples in minor.
   + 1 PDF Tab with Chord Diagrams and Examples, 2 Backing Tracks, Guitar Pro Tabs*
   
   
7. Diminished Chords:
   Diminished chords are used as passing chords or substitutions for dominant chords. You’ll learn all the chords until the b-string and high e-string and apply them to both situations.
   + PDF Tab with Chord Diagrams and Examples, 2 Backing Tracks, Guitar Pro Tabs*
   
   
8. Bonus: Minor Chord Vamps:
   It’s fun to jam over just one chord (usually in minor). But what to play over it. In this lesson you learn how to connect all the cool minor chrods and even learn some new Quartal Voicings for a modern jazz sound.
   Accept the challenge and delve into the world of one-chord-vamps.
   + PDF Tab with Chord Diagrams and Examples, 6 Backing Tracks, Guitar Pro Tabs*
   
   
9. Bonus: Chord Types Interval Chart
   This chart lists all the chord types with intervals incl. all their diatonic tensions.
   + PDF Chart

Each Tab has Tab notation, standard music notation and chord diagrams.

+ Link list to all Youtube video tutorials

What the chord library is useful for:

• Having all the chords in one place
• Learn the theory behind the chords
• Examples for chord comping, chord fills, chord melody and chord solos

* You need the Guitar Pro software to open the GP files. Guitar Pro is a software by Arobas Music that plays back written music notation / TABS. I don't sell this software, I just write TABS for it. Those files are a free bonus! If you don't own the Guitar Pro software, just use the PDF Tab instead. It's the SAME notation / TAB.