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Hi everyone,
I'm very glad to have found this forum and am hoping someone can be of assistance.
I would like to start learning the basic melodies and chords to jazz standards. I'm familiar with The Real Book volumes but I was wondering if there is a more affordable source where I can find similar charts to jazz standards.
Thanks in advance!Last edited by twalker123; 12-27-2021 at 03:36 PM.
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12-27-2021 12:23 PM
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Thank so much. However, I was hoping for something with the melody as well, much like what is presented in the Real Books
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Originally Posted by rrbasic
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I certainly wouldn't mind paying for a source at all. Those Real Books can really add up in price.
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Sheet Music Direct is an excellent resource. Inexpensive yet extensive and it allows you to save PDFs and print as often as you wish (from memory, many other sheet music sites are limited in that regard):
All The Things You Are Sheet Music | Jerome Kern | Real Book – Melody, Lyrics & Chords
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C-jam - New Orleans jambook A-L
That's the first page, there are links to the rest of the alphabet.
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Originally Posted by PMB
Great!!! Just what I was looking for!!! Thanks.
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by twalker123
Standards are pop songs, albeit it very old ones. Would you learn a pop song from the music?
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Somewhere on the internet there is a big file which contains mp3s of a great many important jazz standards.
Listening to that a few dozen times will help.
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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The Real Book Searching
Might help
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Originally Posted by twalker123
Takes me blinking ages to learn the melody to anything haha but it’s time well spent
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Cool finding some resources I wasn’t aware of. The one thing I’ll say is having a copy of the Real Book Vol. 1 isn’t a bad thing. It’s (or maybe I’m old and it “was”) the lingua franca of jazz.
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Originally Posted by Walker
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Originally Posted by MikeJ
Real Books 1 2 and 3
New Real Book
Colorado
Jazz Fakebook
and some otthers
For me the way to approach learning standards is to first find a standard you like then seek out the chart.
There are many lists of top standards you should learn first. These lists are a good way of narrowing things down.
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Search the name of the song and then lead sheet in google images.
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For officially published fakebooks, there's a great tune index at The Fake Book Index
Sounds like you don't want to buy $150 worth of books right of the bat, but it may come in handy sometime.
I'm partial to the Chuck Sher publications, particularly The Standards Real Book, which focuses on pop tunes that are now jazz standards. Also, Sher's "New Real Book" vols. 1-3 have more tunes written by jazz composers (including post-1970 stuff), though they also have some Great American Songbook tunes.
But if you want something for jam sessions, the Real Book (original or Hal Leondard legit versions) are probably a better bet.
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Originally Posted by Clint 55
Last edited by AllanAllen; 12-29-2021 at 10:07 AM.
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There are several of these. Melody, comping, solo, chord melody, for lots of standards. Great resource!
https://www.amazon.com/Mel-Bay-Jazz-Guitar-Standards/dp/0786666455/ref=asc_df_0786666455/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312021428070&hvpos=&hvnetw= g&hvrand=17609096752871555955&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqm t=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9026807&hv targid=pla-454504799516&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=60223809017&h vpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312021428070&hvpos=&hvnetw=g &hvrand=17609096752871555955&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcm dl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9026807&hvtargid=pla-454504799516
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At least get real book volume 1. That plus stealing free lead sheets will get you there. The following volumes are good also. I use those occasionally. I have a bunch of other books that I never use like the beatles fake book, t monk fake book, omnibook etc.
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Originally Posted by 44lombard
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The New Real Book is generally pretty accurate to the recorded version (they tell you which in the back)
The only problem I found using it is that the repertoire of tunes is different to the old RB and a lot of players build their repertoire around those, although this is less of an issue nowadays I think (iReal changed things, also I think I play with better musicians who learn tunes differently.)
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