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The Guitar Chord Solo – Playing A Chord Melody

A chord melody or guitar chord solo is a method guitarists use to bring out the musical possibilities of a tune by interpreting it as a series of chords rather than single notes. Or, putting it another way, you play the chords AND the melody simultaneously. You will find the guitar chord solo – a group setting or unaccompanied – used quite a lot in jazz Guitar Music.

In rock-oriented music we are used to hearing a guitar solo played by one guitar, the bass notes by another, and the rhythm by a third guitar. Using the chord melody approach, the guitar player makes use of all three elements of a piece of music to produce a different way of interpreting the melody by making use of musical effects of the guitar chord. Solos played this way often have the ability to draw the listener’s attention into the music.

What do we need to enable us to play a guitar chord solo? We can make our chord melody by taking a piece of Sheet Music, tab or a fake book that gives us the basic melody and the chords. Of course, you will need to be beyond the raw beginner stage to make any progress on a guitar chord solo, because your facility for changing chords needs to be established in your body.

Once you have chosen your piece of music to transform into a guitar chord solo, try playing the melody as chords with the melody note on the highest string. This way you can simply strum the chord from bass notes to treble and see how the melody sounds and feels on the guitar. If playing the piece as a chord solo feels too awkward, you will need to think about changing keys.

An alternative approach to arranging your own chord solo is to make use of some of the collections of chord melody arrangements on the market. Some of these anthologies are for either fingerpicking or flatpicking only, but some include both.

There is quite a good book by Mel Bay called Mel Bay Jazz Guitar Standards And Chord Melody Solos. This book has a CD with all the guitar chord solos recorded and they are written in music notation as well as tab.

If you decide to learn to Play Guitar chord solos you might need a friend or teacher to help you with left hand fingering or the use of your right hand fingers for fingerpicking arrangements. Whichever course you take you will find that learning to play chord melody arrangements quite rewarding.

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Let’s Play Free Role Playing Games

If you are like many game enthusiasts you anticipate as new MMORPG games are released onto the market. Over the last some years the types of games that are being released has expanded over several different genres to choose from. There are some role playing games available online and over the last few years there have been some that were a biggest success and still are played today as much as they were when they were first released.

The casual MMORPG player want to waste months developing an online persona so there are some MMORPG games that will suit your needs just fine. There is no reason why you can’t enjoy both either. If you have never played MMORPG or you did so the video game online you need to play a free one until you figure out what the really type of video games you want.

They allow quick access to awesome game play elements and small rewards for the short period of time invested in them. However, a lot another games require extensive game play in order to make your character powerful and to full beat the game.

There are Many Free Online MMORPG Games you can Find!

Free MMORPG Games can be a video game that can be played by these individuals who are trying to find some quick action or these who devote long hours into their game play in order to have the full experience of the game. Guild Wars, Archlord, Lord of the Rings, and Lineage are another games that have become popular overtime but require a bit more extensive play in order to understand the storyline and to really get into it.

However, if you are just looking to spend a couple hours of playing any of these video games you will still enjoy it. Other popular MMORPG games which definitely require more of a time investment includes Final Fantasy XI, Eve Online, Everquest II, and Dungeons & Dragons Online. Depending on your personal preferences and your age range you may opt to play free MMORPG games to begin with until you get the hang of how those types of video games work and find one that you really enjoy. You can choose to play a solo video game or a multiplayer if you are looking to interact with individuals from around the world. There is no reason why you can not have fun both either. If you have days that you feel like working alone so choose a game that only requires a single player and on days that you feel like being a team player you can choose MMORPG games that work as a team.

Whether you make choice a free or paid game should depend on how much time and effort you are able to put into it. You don’t want to pay fees for a game that you might play once a month or just have no time to play it like you wish you could. If you have never played MMORPG games online you need choose a free one until you figure out what type of games you like. Some of these games have a high membership fee which you do not want to go to waste if you are unable to figure out how to play it

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12 Angry Men [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray] $39.95 A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonished that the defendant is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Eleven of the jurors vote for conviction, each for reasons of his own. The sole holdout is Juror #8, played by Henry Fonda. As Fonda persuades the weary jurors to re-examine the evidence, we learn the backstory of each man. Juror #3 (Lee J. Cobb), a bullying self-made man, has estranged himself from his own son. Juror #7 (Jack Warden) has an ingrained mistrust of foreigners; so, to a lesser extent, does Juror #6 (Edward Binns). Jurors #10 (Ed Begley) and #11 (George Voskovec), so certain of the infallibility of the Law, assume that if the boy was arrested, he must be guilty. Juror #4 (E.G. Marshall) is an advocate of dispassionate deductive reasoning. Juror #5 (Jack Klugman), like the defendant a product of “the streets,” hopes that his guilty vote will distance himself from his past. Juror #12 (Robert Webber), an advertising man, doesn’t understand anything that he can’t package and market. And Jurors #1 (Martin Balsam), #2 (John Fiedler) and #9 (Joseph Sweeney), anxious not to make waves, “go with the flow.” The excruciatingly hot day drags into an even hotter night; still, Fonda chips away at the guilty verdict, insisting that his fellow jurors bear in mind those words “reasonable doubt.” A pet project of Henry Fonda’s, Twelve Angry Men was his only foray into film production; the actor’s partner in this venture was Reginald Rose, who wrote the 1954 television play on which the film was based. Carried over from the TV version was director Sidney Lumet, here making his feature-film debut. A flop when it first came out (surprisingly, since it cost almost nothing to make), Twelve Angry Men holds up beautifully when seen today. It was remade for television in 1997 by director William Friedkin with Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott. ~ H…

70, Girls, 70 [Original Broadway Cast] $11.99 The conventional wisdom is that composer John Kander and co-librettist and lyricist Fred Ebb’s 70, Girls, 70, based on the play Breath of Spring, flopped as a Broadway musical in the spring of 1971 because of a combination of bad luck (one of its intended stars, David Burns, literally died in Philadelphia) and an overabundance of shows of the same type. (A revival of No, No, Nanette and Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, both also featuring senior citizens as stars, preceded it.) It may be, however, that the show was simply too slight an entertainment. The idea concerned a hotel for poor, aging people who went on a crime spree, stealing clothing. Typical for Kander and Ebb, there was also a show within a show, such that it was really about a group of old Broadway troupers playing poor, aging people in a hotel going on a crime spree, which allowed for songs like “Broadway, My Street.” And also typical for the songwriting team, Kander turned out 1920s pastiche music (appropriate for the over-70 performers), while Ebb simultaneously celebrated and satirized the material. Typical was “Coffee in a Cardboard Cup,” in which Lillian Hayman and Goldye Shaw explained that “the trouble with the world today” was that “everything is hurry up.” Meanwhile, Lucie Lancaster and Gil Lamb addressed the question of septuagenarian sex in “Do We?” Star Mildred Natwick finally examined the inevitable question of death in “The Elephant Song” before her character actually did die, which did not keep her from coming back at the close for the affirmative closer, “Yes.” There were, thus, a few good songs, even if 70, Girls, 70 was a minor effort from a major Broadway team. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

A Serious Man [Original Score] $18.98 Writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen’s film A Serious Man is a black comedy about the Job-like travails of a Jewish college professor, Larry Gopnik (played by Michael Stuhlberg), living in a Midwestern suburb in 1967, which may help explain why this soundtrack album combines composer Carter Burwell’s short, poignant cues with songs from Jefferson Airplane’s hit 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow and a track by the Yiddish performer Sidor Belarsky. Gopnik’s son Danny (Aaron Wolff) is studying desultorily for his bar mitzvah while listening to a transistor radio that seems to play only one song, Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody to Love,” and that song’s opening lyric couplet, “When the truth is found to be lies/Don’t you know the joy within you dies,” is, in essence the theme of the movie. The delicate Jefferson Airplane ballads “Comin’ Back to Me” and “Today” are more in tune with Burwell’s restrained music, however, and also feature prominently. Given the film’s offbeat tone, a listen to the album doesn’t give much of a sense of what it’s about, although Burwell’s music is typically affecting. (He is the Coens’ in-house composer, in addition to working extensively with others.) Among Gopnik’s many problems in the movie is that he is being hounded by the Columbia Record Club for nonpayment of its charges, including one for the 1970 Santana LP Abraxas. Given the surreal quality of the plot, it’s hard to say whether that is a deliberate error or an unintended anachronism. Couldn’t Larry just point out that he can’t be expected to pay for an album that won’t be released for another three years? ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

Acoustic Guitar – Paul Baloche Modern Worship Series $29.95 Since 1995, Paul Baloche’s instructional videos have empowered thousands of guitarists to play the more challenging music styles of today. This all new 2-1/2 hour DVD is jam-packed with up close and personal instruction on acoustic guitar essentials including: the open chord concept, finger picking techniques, right and left hand damping, using your capo to play in all keys, walkdowns in all keys, alternate voicings for common chords, modern chord progressions, improving your timing and feel, progressive barre chord voicings, effective strumming patterns and techniques, and more. You can also download the companion workbook at www.LeadWorship.com. Mastering the concepts and techniques demonstrated on this DVD will greatly increase your ability and confidence. 150 minutes.

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Am I Evil?: Anthology $27.98 New Wave of British Heavy Metal heavyweights (and mainstream metal failures) Diamond Head were long overdue for a best-of anthology, and chances are Sanctuary’s two-disc Am I Evil?: Anthology, although not exactly perfect, is about as good as anyone could have hoped for. Except the unusually poppy single “Sweet and Innocent,” all of Diamond Head’s first and finest, nameless album (commonly referred to as Lightning to the Nations) and its essential B-sides (“Shoot Out the Lights,” “Play It Loud,” etc.) are paraded before the court here — to the continued wonderment of all who may hear them. And for all of their inherent faults, the far less satisfying songs chosen from sophomore disaster Borrowed Time (“In the Heat of the Night,” the title track, etc.) manage to acquit themselves ever so slightly in retrospect’s benevolent glare. Not so the desperately unsalvageable submissions (and too many of them, let it be said) culled from confused third opus Canterbury, which remain as indefensible today as they did then — with the only possible exception being the somewhat classy “Knight of the Swords.” A surprisingly large number of cuts are also chosen from Diamond Head’s belated, but not completely forgettable, comeback Death & Progress, and the final trio of classics capture live in concert are interesting enough. Inevitably, however, a few tragic oversights were bound to occur, and it’s really a shame to find masterful numbers like energetic first album outtake “Streets of Gold” or Death & Progress’ haunting opener “Starcrossed (Lovers of the Night)” omitted from this anthology’s final selection. All a matter of opinion, I suppose, and of course many would argue that it’s a waste of time even going beyond that be-all, end-all of a first album to sample a career which afterwards only headed south. But, for the more curious listener looking to sample both the good and the not so good, or to supplant their weathered copy of the horribly and senselessly rem…

Arranging for Large Jazz Ensemble $39.95 Create arrangements with texture and style with this complete guide to arranging for large horn sections! Now, for the first time, learn the same jazz ensemble arranging techniques taught by renowned Berklee College of Music faculty, and studied by the best and brightest arrangers working today. While the book focuses on classic big band and jazz styles, the core information about horn harmony and arranging can be used for any style, from hip-hop to ska. Arranging for Large Jazz Ensemble includes all the information you need when creating horn charts, fueling and inspiring you with the charts of esteemed Berklee professors Jeff Friedman, Ted Pease, Scott Free, Greg Hopkins and Bill Scism. The play-along CD includes more than 60 demo tracks and arrangements written in the style of masters such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Gil Evans, and performed by Berklee faculty. Covers: writing and voicing techniques; soli, background and shout choruses; special effects; creating your own style; and more.

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The Muppets (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy + Soundtrack Download Card) $29.99 Movies attempting to retrieve cherished nuggets of pop culture often stumble, either by appealing solely to the die-hard minutia enthusiasts or clunking up the batter with unnecessary additions to the base material. (Enough with the human love triangles, get to the giant robots fighting.) Thankfully, this revival of Jim Henson’s beloved characters gets the formula delightfully right, providing a g…

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Beauty and the Beast (Five Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy) $32.55 The film that officially signaled Disney’s animation renaissance (following The Little Mermaid) and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince w…

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Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection $41.75 Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2011…