Samba Guitar "Three Sharp Samba"

This tune is based on the famous "rhythm changes". Because it is for guitar I have used a guitar-friendly key (A major).

The style is a bass note, chord voicing with melody on top. I prefer to use all finger instead of pick and fingers. The tempo is around 100 bpm.

For comping the melody can be omitted and/or the bass notes depending on the instrumentation.

1970 Rene Thomas Concert Excerpt

Here is a fun trio setting with Rene Thomas and his trio playing in Belgium in 1970. There is a lot of interesting group improvisation going on here. One of the lesser known jazz guitar greats. The band is obviously very interested in dynamics and interaction. Check out 8' 30".

Circle of Fifths

 Some new circle of fifths images. These include the inner spiral for enharmonic pitches.

Ice Cube Blues

Here is a video of a slowed version of "Ice Cube Blues" and a faster tempo version. After the 2 repeats of the head I have added some choruses of comping for you to improvise over.



Here is the lead sheet.

Bass Chord Blocks

Blank bass chord diagram charts. 4-string bass guitar format. 25 blocks per page.

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"Fractals" Jazz Head

Here is the head of "Fractals" at tempo.


Here is "Fractals" played slow.