Create Arrangements from Lead Sheets and Fakebooks.

Name: Create Arrangements from Lead Sheets and Fakebooks.
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Learn a step-by-step approach to creating full arrangements by learning chord shells and how to add notes under a melody

Created byWillie Myette

Last updated 6/2018

English

What you'll learn

How to create an arrangement from a lead sheet
How to create and play shells with a melody
How to interpret a melody
How to add tensions to your chords for a fuller sound
Learn to play My Romance with a full arrangment

Course content

1 section • 12 lectures • 1h 19m total length

Introduction2:35
Interpreting a Melody7:36
Step 1 Preparation5:35
Step 1 Roots & Melody6:03
Step 2 Preparation7:45
Step 2 R7 shells6:14
Step 3 Preparation (Game changer)7:09
Step 3 R7 3rd and Melody7:44
Step 4 Preparation5:07
Step 4 Adding Tensions4:43
Step four adds tensions by introducing ninths and the eleventh over dominant seventh chords, guiding melody against diminished chords for richer color.
Step 5 Reharms & Tensions10:19
Additional Ideas to Try8:15

Requirements

You will need a piano or keyboard in order to take this course

Description

In this course the Rogers and Hart standard My Romance will be broken down into 5 easy steps. We are using the chords right out of the Real Book with limited re-harmonizations. Many students have asked “How do I play from a fakebook?” Well, this is the lesson for you! The information in this lesson can easily be applied to thousands of other standards.

This lesson shows you how to create a full arrangement by using my Step-By-Step Standards approach. If you have never created your own arrangement before from a lead sheet, you'll find this lesson critical for your understanding of how the 'pros' create those full arrangements.

Already creating your own arrangements? Well this lesson will help you make them fuller and sound more interesting by adding re-harmonizations and fuller to-hand chord structures.

This lesson is a key foundation to learning all of the basics of lead sheet and cocktail piano playing.

Who this course is for:

Piano players that would like to learn to play My Romance and have been playing piano for at least a year.