Autumn Leaves – Les Feuilles Mortes – Classical Guitar. The song is in AABC form. “Autumn Leaves” offers a popular way for beginning jazz with classical guitar and become acquainted with jazz harmony as the chord progression almost Consists Solely of ii-ii-V-I and V sequences Which are typical of jazz. Autumn Leaves - for Guitar Uploaded by torqueville Guitar arrangement of popular Joseph Kosma standard jazz tune Autumn Leaves, written by Jazz Guitarist Ted Greene, in standard music notation for guitar, adaptated by D.
. Autumn Leaves is one of the most popular jazz standards on record and is a must-know tune for any jazz guitarist. Because of this, having a strong hold on the melody and improvising is essential learning. While other instruments, such as sax, trumpet, and vocals, often play the melody on a gig, you never know when you’ll be called up to play the head in or out of a tune. In this lesson, you will learn to play the melody of Autumn Leaves, combined with chords to fill up the gaps.
Next, you will learn a guitar solo over the chords of Autumn Leaves, and the scales needed to play that solo. Learning the melody is an important part of studying any jazz standard. Even if you are excited to dive into the solo, take the time to learn the melody, it builds a strong foundation of the form and tune in your ears and fingers that will make soloing easier over these changes. Have fun learning this Autumn Leaves melody and solo. Study it over the backing track, incorporate licks and ideas from the solo into your own playing, and dig into one of the most famous jazz tunes in the repertoire. Autumn Leaves Scales Jazz guitar scales are an important tool for improvisation and essential learning for every jazz guitar player.
In this section, we will have a look at the needed to solo over Autumn Leaves. There are other scale options besides the ones on this page, but in this lesson, we’ll stick to the basics. G Major Scale You can get away with playing over the entire chord changes of Autumn Leaves with just one scale, the G major scale (aka G ), although there’s a great chance you’ll sound boring after a while. That’s why you will learn to combine the G major scale with other scales. Here are the notes of the G major scale: G Major Scale G A B C D E F# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Here are the notes of the G major scale mapped on the entire fretboard: If the major scale is new to you, start with this position: E Minor Blues Scale Another scale that you can use over the entire chord changes of Autumn Leaves is the E.
The minor blues scale is almost the same as the but has one more note, called a blue note (#4 or b5). E Minor Blues Scale E G A A# B D 1 b3 4 #4 5 b7 Here is a common fingering for the E minor blues scale (the blue note is colored blue!): To bring variety to your solos and sound interesting to your listeners, you’re going to need some other scales as well. The Harmonic Minor Scale The most common scale of choice to play over dominant 7 chords that go to a minor chord is the. There are two dominant chords like this in the chord changes of Autumn Leaves, B7 and E7:.
Play E harmonic minor over B7 (goes to Em7). Play A harmonic minor over E7 (goes to Am7) Here are the notes of the E harmonic minor scale: E Harmonic Minor Scale E F# G A B C D# Played over B7 11 5 13 b7 1 b9 3 And here is a common position of the E harmonic minor scale: Autumn Leaves Backing Track Here is the backing track for this lesson. Great Job Dirk, with this now legendary song. I regret abandoning to the rubbish bin, all the old original London U.K. 1940’s -1950’s band sheets I once had which included this and many of the old hits complete with guitar chords etc. They would have been something I could share with you as well as them likely to have been worth a packet of money today! The pages used were half A4 in size and I used to wonder at how those in the band could see them to read them when actually playing.
I was young and ignorant of music then and had no idea what I was denying myself for the future! To top it all, the beautiful Hofner Committee guitar inlaid with Mother of Pearl fretboard markers, which I bought in the 1960’s in London’s West End music shops enclave, suffered the indignity of a broken neck when I inadvertently left it on the double bed in our caravan while travelling! It was damaged beyond economical repair and today would have been worth a great deal as a collectors item if I still had it. I still have the one 1969 colour photo of myself and my duo singing partner Chris Bird showing me holding my Hofner Committee and Chris holding the Hofner Beatle guitar with closely matching colour and adornments which I bought in Sydney Australia, and taught her to strum along to some of our songs with. Cheers Poppa – Brisbane — Australia.
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Welcome to your Autumn Leaves beginner jazz guitar lesson. I will show you the easiest and most musical approach to learning this great jazz standard and also throw in a free PDF lead sheet. Let’s get started! Use this lesson to:. Learn the chords.
Play the melody. Grab a few tricks for sounding hip. Have fun while you learn! Your Autumn Leaves Lead Sheet Here is a simple chord chart of this great tune. I have included some suggested scales and chord substitutions to put in.
Disclaimer: This is a non-profit study strictly for educational purposes. I do not own the rights for Autumn Leaves. No melody is written, only chord changes. Autumn Leaves Leadhseet Autumn Leaves Video Tutorial In this video I outline an easy and systematic approach to playing the melody and chords to Autumn Leaves. Check it out then let’s examine the tune in detail. How Do I Memorize this Song? Your first step in learning any tune is to memorize the chord changes and the melody.
Once you do away with the sheet music you can then start creating REAL music. 4 steps to quickly memorize this song:. Listen – listen to 5 different versions. I made this easy for you by selecting my favorite 5 into a Youtube playlist,. Use your Brain – Analyze the structure of the song.
How many sections are there? Do chords repeat? What key is it in? Hint: The form is A A B A and LOTS of chords repeat, and the key is G Major or E minor (same thing). Learn the Words – Learning lyrics not only helps you to memorize a song but enables you to really dig into the meaning of it.
Your national anthem isn’t just a nice melody it has meaning and significance. Autumn leaves is a love song, learn the words and it will show in your playing. Use a Play Along – or better yet make your own! I often use garageband or even just a BOSS looper to play along with myself. Throw yourself out there, start soloing along right away.
How to Solo: the Easy Way Before I throw a whole bucket of music theory at you here is some musical fast food: You can solo on E Aeolian or natural minor scale over this WHOLE tune. Here is an Aeolian fret diagram, just centre the white dot over any E (e.g. 7th fret on your A string) and BAM, you have your scale. Here is what E Natural Minor or Aeolian sounds like: Now, change the b7 (D note) to D# on the B7 chord. This scale is E Harmonic minor (sounds exotic right?). Can you hear the difference between the two? A Better Approach; examine each chord individually.
So you know how to easily solo on this tune, now let’s check out each chord for a better approach. Jazz is about outlining the chord changes so let’s get down to business. The following tips are all included in the free PDF above, so make sure you have that as we progress. Side note: Feel free to click on any scale or arpeggio – it will link to an in depth lesson. The Am7 Chord This chord is the II (two) chord in our key of G major. On II chords you play the dorian mode and you can add in the 9th, 11th and 13th as extensions to a plain minor 7 chord. Here is a little summary and a few links if you would like to learn more about minor chords.
Chord: Am7 (or Am9, Am11, Am13). Scale: Dorian Mode. Possible extensions: 9, 11, 13. Guide tones: b3, b7 (Your target notes). Arpeggio: 1, b3, 5, b7 The D7 Chord The V chord is a powerful thing.
In the key of G major our V chord is D7. It leads really nicely to G and you can add on many different notes to colour this chord up. Chord: D7 (or D9, D13 ).
Scale: Mixolydian Mode. Possible extensions: 9, 13. Guide tones: 3, b7 (Your target notes).
Possible Alterations: b9, #9, #11, b13. Arpeggio: R, 3, 5, b7 The Home Chord: Gmaj7 This chord is your tonic major resting chord. Chord: Gmaj7 (or G6, Gmaj9, Gmaj69, Gmaj13). Scale: Ionian Mode/ Major Scale. Possible extensions: 9, 13. Guide tones: 3, 7 (Your target notes).
Arpeggio: R, 3, 5, 7 Great job on making it this far! To dive even further into these chords, check out my lesson on the II V I progression. Cmaj7: The Lydian IV Chord This is your IV chord, check out my full lesson on this awesome colorful chord here. Chord: Cmaj7 (or C6, Gmaj9, Gmaj69, Gmaj13, Cmaj7#11).
Scale: Lydian Mode. Possible extensions: 9, 13. Guide tones: 3, 7 (Your target notes). Arpeggio: R, 3, 5, 7 F#m7b5: The Half Diminished Chord This chord is functioning as the ii chord in our minor key of E minor.
It prepares the B7 chord which leads nicely to Em and is really simple to learn because there aren’t too many options or alterations. Chord: F#m7b5.
Scale: F# Locrian. Possible extensions: 11, b13. Guide tones: b3, b5, b7.
Arpeggio: R, b3, b5, b7 The B7b9 Chord This dude is the V7 chord leading to our tonic minor key center – E minor. We treat dominant chords leading to minor chords differently to ones leading to major chords. I recommend you check out my V7 chords in a minor key lesson for a full explanation on this.
Chord: B7 (or B7b9, B7#9, B7Alt, B7b13). Scale: 5th mode of Harmonic Minor or Altered Scale. Possible extensions: b9, #9, #11, b13.
Guide tones: 3, b7. Arpeggio: 1, 3, 5, b7 The E minor chord Your home minor chord is E minor.
Minor chords are tricky because you have a few options of scales and chords to choose from. Below is a brief overview of your options, for a more in depth look check out my minor ii V lesson. Chord: Em7 (or Emin9, Em11, Em6). Scale: Aeolian. Possible extensions: 9, 11, 13. Guide Tones: b3, b7.
Arpeggio: R, b3, 5, b7 Those Hard Descending Chords So in the last section of the tunes there is this part: Em9 Eb9 Dm9 Db9 What scale do you play over these chords? Well, long story short – what is happening here is tritone substitution. But let me cut out all the musical theory hodge podge: Use the Lydian Dominant Scale over Eb9 and Db9 respectively and Dorian over the Dm9. Well that concludes this Autumn Leaves beginner jazz guitar lesson. Spend some time exploring each chord and its unique scale and alterations – you will set your self up great to learn other tunes faster that way because jazz standards all use the same chords, just in a different order.