Swing Comping Lesson

Gerardo Siere

Swing Comping

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Triads & Comping
LEVEL 3
Triads are very useful and ideal for comping - easy to finger, for chordal enrichment and great to create some melodic movement in your comping.
by Stephane Lucarelli15 years
Soul Comping
LEVEL 3
In this lesson I will share with you some ideas & techniques to create some nice Soul/R&B guitar parts. So we'll take a look at triads, chords inversions, double stops and much more to make it interesting!
by Stephane Lucarelli10 years
Blues Comping
LEVEL 6
Various famous blues comping ideas used by blues greats everywhere.
by Chris Harrington9 years
Jazz Blues Comping
LEVEL 5
Learn some tasty Jazz chords to spice up your blues comping
by Chris Harrington1 year
Swing Series: Estudio Con Swing
LEVEL 4
Brief etude piece focusing on swing reading writing and hammer-ons with fixed chords.
by Gerardo Siere16 years
Fingerpicking Swing
LEVEL 4
A swing chord progression perfect to improve your fingerpicking and groove!
by Diego Budicin9 years
Deep Swing
LEVEL 6
Up-tempo swing jazz, with lots of jazz phrasing and rhythm displacements.
by Vasilije Vukmirovic16 years
Swing Modulations
LEVEL 4
Using modulations in jazz soloing, blues scale application.
by Vasilije Vukmirovic15 years
Jazz Comping (Rhythm Changes)
LEVEL 3
In this part you'll see the first eight measures of the rhythm changes.
by Ramiro Delforte16 years

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- Aleksander Sukovic29th June 2010
  Great lesson topic as always
- Ivan Milenkovic27th June 2010
  I like these progressions a lot, great job Gerardo!
- Gerardo Siere24th June 2010
  Thank you guys, I´m glad you like it!
- Jonathan Burgos23rd June 2010
  this is a great lesson Gerardo!very interesting
- Adrian Figallo23rd June 2010
  very nice chords gerardo!
- Bogdan Radovic23rd June 2010
  Very interesting lesson!

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- Tags: Freddy Green, E minor, Chords, Chord changes, Rhythm, Shifting chords, Swing Jazz, Walking bass, 30s, Clean tone, Chord progression, Workout, Fingerstyle
Hello everyone, today I'm starting a two lessons song series covering swing comping in the style of Freddie Green.

Freddie Green was Count Basie's Big Band player, and we will be covering several techniques and tricks.

The chord progression I choose is Am-D7-Gmaj7-Cmaj7-F#m7b5-B7-Em-E7. You can find this progression in standards like "Autumn Leaves".

Each example has its particular didactic marking and at the en in example number 5 I have mixed several of the techniques covered in previous examples.

Don't forget to download the PDF for a full fingered score.

The bts are "jam1" that has drums, bass and horns. "Jam2" is the same track with no bass as "a challenge" to your ears.

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