Discover a world of chord melody ideas for the timeless jazz standard “Stella by Starlight” with Mike’s Master Classes’ online course. In “Chord Melody Ideas for Stella by Starlight: Thoughts on Stella”, master jazz guitarist Genil Castro shares his expert insights and techniques to help you create your own stunning chord melody arrangements.
In this course, Genil breaks down his approach to “Stella by Starlight” in detail, showing you step-by-step how to create rich harmonies and beautiful melodies on the guitar.
You’ll learn how to play the melody and harmony simultaneously, how to add chord substitutions and reharmonizations to your arrangements, and how to use various techniques such as harmonics, arpeggios, and chord inversions to create a captivating sound.
In addition to the video lessons, the course includes downloadable PDFs of sheet music and tablature, as well as practice soundslice to help you perfect your playing.
Including in this lesson:
- A complete arrangement transcription
- Harmonic examples of different options for harmonizing the melody with and without Harp Harmonics Technique
- Genil shows how he came up with ideas for the arrangement inspired on his influences (Gamela, Joe Diorio, Ted Greene and others)
- Five and six notes voicings from Melodic Minor scale
- Discussion on the context and origins of the tune
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Running time: 41 minutes
7 Pages PDF Included
Amazing Course!
This course is so deep and interesting! One should definitely have at least some understanding of modal harmony and know Stella already to get the most out of Genil’s lesson. He’s an amazing player. Like Genil, I was also impacted deeply by Joe Diorio and Lenny Breau when I attended GIT in 1980. I was always drawn to Joe’s comping work and solo guitar playing. Lots of work ahead but your knowledge and discovery will be expanded by the things Genil discusses. Highly recommeded!
by Ronald ThompsonIncredible arrangement
I have several videos about Stella by starlight
by David HERZHAFTGenil’s options to harmonize the melody are brilliant
I like that he shows so many different options in detail including his own arrangement
You will definitely learn a lot of cool voicings and ideas from this lessons
For advanced and flexible players
stella by starlight
I like all his classes, but this is one of the best.
by james seaberry