A Lotus on Irish Streams
Learn the melody to A Lotus on Irish Streams, a beautiful contemporary jazz composition. This evocative, flowing melody offers a wonderful opportunity to develop your lyrical playing and explore modern jazz harmonic territory on the guitar.
🎧 What You’ll Learn
- The complete melody to this atmospheric contemporary jazz composition
- Lyrical phrasing techniques for modern jazz melody playing
- How the melody navigates through contemporary harmonic movement
- Dynamic and expressive approaches to bringing this melody to life
💡 Practice Tips
- Focus on letting the melody breathe—give each phrase space and expression
- Pay attention to dynamics—this melody benefits from subtle volume changes
- Practice in a position that allows sustained, singing notes
- Listen to recordings of this tune to absorb the intended mood and character
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Chord scales for Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim), showing the scale choices for each chord in this beautiful bossa nova standard.
Waves Chord Scales (pdf)What You’ll Learn:
The chord scales for each change in Wave, how to navigate the bossa nova harmony, and scale positions for improvising over the tune.
Practice Tips:
Learn each chord scale in position, then practice connecting them through the form. Pay attention to the common tones between adjacent chords — these create smooth melodic connections for improvisation.
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