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Livestream Replay – Accents, Timing and Rhythm

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A Lotus on Irish Streams

July 2, 2025 by Jim Ellis Leave a Comment

♩ A Lotus on Irish StreamsMelodyContemporary Jazz🎶 MelodySlice

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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Valse Hot Melody

June 28, 2025 by Jim Ellis Leave a Comment

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Podcast – Wave Improvisation and Comping

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Wave Comping

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Wave Etude

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Darn That Dream Chord Melody

June 19, 2025 by Jim Ellis Leave a Comment

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Wave Melody

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Wave Chord Scales Subscribers

June 13, 2025 by Jim Ellis Leave a Comment

♩ Wave📄 Scale ReferenceScales & Harmony

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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Watermelon Man Melody

June 7, 2025 by Jim Ellis Leave a Comment

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