Play chord progressions with smooth soprano lines! Strengthen your accompanying skills! Mark Mazzatenta performs 3 exercises that create smooth soprano lines (ascending, descending, and common tone) in your comping. See the link below for the sheet music examples.
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Hope it's helpful. Thanks for watching!
Damn, that is pretty good advice
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your comping has always been inspiring and supporting . Now we know why !
Thank you Wolfgang! I learned a thing or two from listening to Jim Hall!
Sweet tone of the guitar and great chord progressions. Thanks
Thank you for your nice comments!
Fantastic lesson, thank you!
Glad it was useful to you! (A follow-up video will post on Jan 2) Thanks for watching!
This is a fantastic lesson, thank you very much! I look forward to putting it into practice.
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Excelent lesson! Thanks!
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Great lesson. Thanks
Glad it was helpful! What other topic should I talk about?
very nice, well explained
Thanks for watching! (I've got a follow-up video scheduled for the 1st week of the new year!)
Great video Mark! KZhead continues to improve as an educational resource with knowledgeable teachers such as yourself. Thanks and have a nice day!
Thanks for the nice comment! I'll make sure to keep making instructional vids like this. Thanks for watching!
what a great way to describe comping....smooth soprano melody
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Thanks!. It sounded so good👍👍👍
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Thank you... That exercise makes the difference between comping and playing music
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good channel and I am subscribing, I really need to get better at the guitar. I am lost beyond fixing lol but I kno I can do it, I always wanted to do it and I just have to do it.
Thanks for watching! Even pro guitarists who have played their whole lives always have something they can get better at. I'm glad you have the motivation to learn!
Great. This is what I tried to do with String of Pearls
Cool. Thanks for watching!
Brilliant! This one lesson changed the way I look at all of my jazz band charts.
Thanks Fred! Guitarists in a large jazz band hardly have to do anything--since there's a bass player and piano. That could be another video....
@@markmazzatentaguitar that would be great. I love the sound of your ascending and descending lines in the chord progression
good lesson...will you also focus on interior voices in future lessons?
Thanks for watching, and for the suggestion! Yes, I can address that topic. Stay tuned!
So how is this different from chord melody? For instance using the chord melody approach to play jazz standards…trying to understand. How does chord melody work?
Chord melody is played by one person, covering both parts (melody and chords) together. Comping is when you are accompanying other people in the band.
If you're the only instrument accompanying or if you're also responsible for the low end, do you also think about the bass note? I find that, depending on the distance (in octaves) between the bass and the melody, it bothers me a bit, sounds hollow... But I keep wondering if I'm being picky, I don't know...
I'll be addressing this in a follow-up video next month: comping decisions that are based on how many people you're playing with (and other factors) Stay tuned! I appreciate your comments!
When you say it’s not creating a smooth soprano melody when you first play the chord progression…is the melody you are speaking of the same melody as the melody of the song you got he chord progression from (the Moonbeam song)? Or are you creating a separate melody from the song melody by playing the soprano note of each chord from the song you are accompanying (Moonbeam, etc)?
It's not the melody from the song. It's simply the highest pitch from the random chord shapes I chose, therefore it's not a planned-out smooth soprano line. Thanks for your comments!
@@markmazzatentaguitar So I would not accompany a song with this technique?
Yes, you would accompany with chord voicings that have a smooth, step-wise soprano line.
I accompany a singer on guitar. We found out that it makes the voice sound better when the top note of the accompaniment is *not* the melody note. We try to avoid this doubling of the melody.