“Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” Guitar Chords & FREE Lead Sheet PDF

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Goodbye Pork Pie Hat: Chords

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Today, a quick look at “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” Fake-book lead sheet.

2 LEAD SHEET EXAMPLES

From Book:

Melody/Guitar Chords:

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CHORDAL GUITAR VOICING’S

Here, are the chords for a quick chord melody version that I did in the video above.

These, are quite simple and easy to play guitar voicing’s.

Here, are the chords for the first part that come to rest on a B7b5:

Next, we have the following chord voicing’s:

Notice the “Barring” with the 9th on top and then the wide finger stretch for the 11th:

Goodbye Porkpie Hat: Guitar Chords:

From here, we carry on with more melodic chords outlining the compositions melody.

Goodbye Porkpie Hat: Guitar Chords:

To vary this a bit, and add some power I added octaves just here,

This, follows through with some more simple chord to melody note approach:

Finally, we finish on our Fm9 chord.

In Conclusion

To conclude, this was just a quick guitar harmonisation for this classic tune. There are a million ways to do this, but, it is always best to keep to a simple harmonisation, that way it is easier to remember as well as play.

On another note: For accompanying a singer, it can work well with big/rich fully barred chords in the chord melody [or melodic implication] style. But, for a band setting is is best to cut all of the chords down to a 2 or 3 note voiced setting.

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Alternate Picking Tips: Grip for Fast Playing

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Alternate Picking: Essential Grip for fast articulated picking

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Today, a “Re-Post” that some of you have been searching for:

It’s the look at alternate picking plectrum/pick grip page.

PLEASE NOTE: This page/blog is only for anyone who might be having problems with holding the pick for long periods when improvising, or moving from the improvised line back to chord melody.

PICK GRIP:

It’s not so important how you hold the pick or what finger you use. But, it is essential not to have a wobbly thumb and/or finger .

Three pictures demonstrating how to grip the guitar pick correctly for fast alternate picking guitar phrases in the syle of malmsteen, mclaughlin and al di meola and other guitar shredders.

A lot of guitar players when they start out with alternate picking often change the grip just as they are about the pluck the string! This makes it impossible to gauge distance.

When the thumb is rigid and the grip is solid, distance, articulation and timing fall into place automatically.

Pic 1: Good solid grip

Example of how to grip the guitar pick correctly for fast alternate picking in the syle of guitarists like malmsteen, mclaughlin and al di meola

Pic 2: Pick confidently plucks string

Image depicting how to grip the guitar pick correctly for fast alternate picking guitar technique

Below [Pic 3]: BAD!

At the last moment the pick is turned as it is about to pluck the string and the thumb and finger wobble/collapse:

2 BASIC EXERCISES:

Here are a couple of exercises for practicing whilst getting the feel of gripping the pick firmly.

The first is a simple A minor Pentatonic scale in sextuplets.

Counting basic 1 2 3 4 5 6:

This starts on a down stroke:

Next we have the same thing but in groups of four 16th notes.

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It’s a good idea to play around with these two exercises by mixing the groups of 4 and 6 together and create little phrases out of them.

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Harmonising Melodies with Diminished Chords: [Chord Melody]

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Following on from our previous lesson, we will now exploit the diminished 7th chord from our harmonised diminished scale examples.

To recap, here, is our basic shape:

PART 1 Harmonising a Simple Melody

To begin with, let’s take a very basic fragment of melody:

Now, we will simply harmonise this with our diminished 7th shape:

Guitar tab displaying example of how harmonising melodies with Diminished Chords is so easy on guitar. Brilliant lessonthta's easy to understand

Notice, that straight away we have a sophisticated harmonic Palate and accompanying chord melody.

Let’s now stretch this further and broaden out on our diminished 7th chord shape by adding a couple of extra melodic notes:

Lesson in harmonising melodies with Diminished Chords for easy on guitar and all musical instruments

From here, we will now harmonise the same piece of melody with slash chords from our previous lesson/video [on harmonising the diminished scale]:

Guitar tablature displaying how to harmonise melody with slash chords from the diminished scale.

Lastly, here are two examples with diminished 7th chords from the 5th and 6th strings. Both harmonising perfect cadences.

From 5th string

From 6th string

Examples from Standards:

Below, we have an example from “Stella” where we have both the minor7b5 and the diminished 7th [also Dominant7th].

Music notation and guitar tab displaying example how harmonising melodies with Diminished Chords on jazz standards is easy.

In the next example, we have lots of colourful diminished 7th movement from the Gershwin classic “Someone to watch over me”.

Guitar tab displaying jazz standard example how harmonising melodies with Diminished Chords is so easy on guitar and all musical instruments

Here, is the same but with the original Ab13 chord

Guitar tab displaying jazz standard example how harmonising melodies with Diminished Chords is so easy on guitar and all musical instruments

Ascending Melody Harmonisation

To conclude, we will harmonise a simple ascending melody and add passing diminished 7th chords and vary it:

Simple Melody:

BASIC MELODY/HARMONISATION:

Variation-Filled out:

Variation 2:

IN CONCLUSION

This was just a quick look at how to exploit melodies with the diminished 7th shape from our lesson on harmonising the diminished scale.

What you will notice, is how easily we can apply them as passing chords and colourful harmonic decorations to create really sophisticated accompaniments and chord melody functions.

For a really in depth take on this, it is a good idea to take a look at some Barry Harris material as this contains a huge wealth of possibilities. Also, for guitarists, Pat Martino’s approach to chords.

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