About guidetone writing
- Berklee page 19-26 (Harmony part 2)
- About rewriting a melody
- Embellishment of guidetone lines
- Riff Backgrounds
Examples of great guidetone writing
- All the things you are
- Nica's Dream
- Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan
- Art Blakey and the Jazzmessengers, pdf and audio
- Norah Jones - 'I don't know why', pdf and audio
- Nancy Wilson - 'All night long', pdf and audio
- Cht Baker - 'Have you met miss Jones', pdf and audio
- Jazzcomposition and practice - audio and pdf
- Bill Dobbins - Two part writing example, pdf, score explanation and audio
Reharmonizing your tune and the effect on the guidetones (arrangements by students)
- 'I could write a Book'
- Yeonju Yoo's reharmonisation of 'I could write a book' audio and score
- Mara Sejane's arrangements of Blue Bossa (pdf and audio) and I could write a book (video)
Style knowledge for arranging
- Jazz Basslines by Paul Berner
- Information about making a good bassline
- Scores of Bassplayers
- The Brazilian Rhythm section (Zipfile)
- Brazilian guitarstyles (Zip file)
- Latin bassexamples
- Latin Piano grooves
- Drums
Guidetone assignments
'Blue Bossa'
- Real Book version
- Work file students (pdf and Sibelius)
- Blue Bossa in six steps (video)
- Blue bossa in six steps (pdf)
- Blue Bossa guidetone line by Rick Margitza during class, pdf, video
'I could write a book'
- I could write a book workfile (pdf and Sibelius)
- Harrie Connick's version
- 'I could write a Book' reharmonisations
- 'I could write a book', reharmonisation with Modal interchange
Guidetones and improvisation
- Chico Pinheiro about lines (guidetones) in 'Contemporary comping'.
More examples of guidetonelines on standards
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Bluesette score, two voices, alto, tenor, guitar, piano, clave, bass, video, playalong
- Empenada
- Naranjo en flor