Ricardo Farão

Music and admirer of the fine arts! Sub my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rfviolao https://ricardofarao.com/ My Jazz Trio: https://www.youtube.com/@MoonlightJazzGuitar Did you like my work? Buy me a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/ricardofarao https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=QCFHH2GHQV5DC

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Easy Autumn Leaves Chord Melody and Quick How-to-Play!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_prQirfAsKk&index=1&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcFgp6um_vcEOFDqi5RW1wHl

This is an Easy Chord Melody for Autumn Leaves with transcription and tabs plus a short video explaining how to play the arrangement.   Autumn Leaves is a great song to get starting playing an easy chord melody arrangements on guitar. This famous jazz standard is both a great melody and a fairly easy option to play an easy chord melody. 

Chord melody is the style or technique where you play the melody of the song and add chords to it. Mostly making it a complete solo guitar arrangement with both harmony and melody. 

In this lesson I will go over a chord melody arrangement of Autumn Leaves that I made. arrangement. The chords I am using are for the biggest part simple 3-note voicings called shell-voicings and I have also included some exercises to check those out. Hope you like it!

[jazzandothersounds-blog]

Miles Davis born 100 years ago today.

26 May 1926 – 26 May 2026. Happy 100th birthday, Mr Davis.

[ricardofarao]

🌀 “Well, You Needn’t” (Thelonious Monk) sparks with angular wit, syncopated swing, and bold modern jazz energy. 🎶 A warm nylon-guitar trio with bebop edge and urban pulse. Tap to listen ▶️

[ricardofarao]

🚶 “Walkin’” (Richard Carpenter) moves with bluesy stride, hard-bop energy, and urban swing. 🎶 A warm nylon-guitar trio with groove, motion, and late-night city shadows. Tap to listen ▶️

[ricardofarao]

🐬 “Green Dolphin Street” (Bronisław Kaper) drifts with cinematic elegance, luminous harmony, and cool jazz sophistication. 🎶 A warm nylon-guitar trio glowing like a quiet sunlit harbor. Tap to listen ▶️

[lesser-known-composers]

Katherine Hoover (1937- 2018) : - Canyon Echoes, Op. 45 (1991):

I. Dance II. Serenade III. She Mourns IV. He Returns

Dr. James Scott (Flute) & Armin Abdihodzic (Guitar)

[puremusician]

1.25 Million Streams on Spotify!

Thanks for every stream, save, share, and playlist add! My debut album “Melancholies & Joys” has passed 1.25 Million streams on Spotify alone! Next stop, 2 Million streams? Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/artist/0ehs83ZhX2H2Iqy7OjULEr

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[ricardofarao]

🐦 “Lullaby of Birdland” (George Shearing) glows with cool elegance, gentle swing, and late-night jazz charm. 🎶 A warm nylon-guitar trio with a soft Birdland sparkle. Tap to listen ▶️

[stuckonlevel974]

Got 27 seconds into my Around the Fur CD with my mom before she said she couldn’t do it and 7 seconds into my Bossa Nova CD before my sister said she doesn’t want to listen to my jazz

[slavetomusic]

Great Songs #3 - Lenny: When Texas Thunder Whispered Its Heart

In the electric storm of the 1980s blues-rock revival, Stevie Ray Vaughan was a force of nature — a six-string tornado ripping through Hendrix riffs and Albert King bends with the fury of a Lone Star summer. His 1983 debut, Texas Flood, arrived like a thunderclap, packed with tracks that scorched the airwaves and set guitarists’ fingers ablaze. But tucked among the pyrotechnics was something…

Great Songs #3 - Lenny: When Texas Thunder Whispered Its Heart

[lesser-known-composers]

Juliane Bergemann plays Tarantella by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856) on a 2008 Jan Tulácek.

[ricardofarao]

🌬️ “Soft Winds” (Benny Goodman) floats with gentle swing, lyricism, and quiet elegance. 🎶 A warm nylon-guitar trio like a soft breeze through an open summer room. Tap to listen ▶️

[playlistwizard]

PLAYLIST OF THE DAY 54/1200+ TODAY'S GENRE: COOL JAZZ

pussycat alley

i do like jazz quite a lot so very glad to get the subdued mid century added to my collection but i dont have much to say

[musicintruments]

Who created Best Minor Pentatonic Course?

The Best Minor Pentatonic Course was created by Adam Levine, a veteran guitar educator with more than five decades of teaching experience. Throughout his career, he has helped thousands of guitarists—from dedicated hobbyists to working professionals—develop a deeper understanding of the instrument through practical, structured instruction rather than rote memorization.

Adam is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and has served as a faculty member at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood. He also directed the guitar program at the Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles and studied privately with legendary jazz guitarist Joe Pass. His background combines formal music education, studio performance, live touring, and decades of hands-on teaching experience.

Drawing on that experience, Adam developed the Nucleus Patterns Method, the core teaching system behind the Best Minor Pentatonic Course. Instead of asking students to memorize isolated pentatonic shapes, the method focuses on the connections between those shapes, helping guitarists understand the fretboard as one continuous system. This practical approach is designed to improve movement across the neck and make improvisation feel more natural.

Best Minor Pentatonic Course - Official Site | Nucleus Patterns Method

Master the minor pentatonic scale with Adam Levine's proven Nucleus Patterns Method. Solo confidently across the entire fretboard in any key

[ricardofarao]

🎷 “In a Mellow Tone” (Duke Ellington) swings with warmth, elegance, and effortless urban glow. 🎶 A relaxed nylon-guitar trio for late-night calm and classic jazz color. Tap to listen ▶️

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Acoustic delta blues guitar from Australia's desert country

[lesser-known-composers]

Petra Poláčková performs "An Malvina" by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856)