Masterclass
A Foggy Day: Solo Jazz Guitar Arrangement
About this masterclass
Jake Reichbart teaches his solo fingerstyle arrangement of the Gershwin standard "A Foggy Day" — one of the first chord melody arrangements he ever attempted, dating back some 35 years to when he first discovered Joe Pass. The chord shapes he uses today are largely the same ones he learned then; what changed is how he plays them. As Jake puts it, the difference lies in "a thousand different means of articulation, added like seasoning into food."
What's covered
- Playing melody and bass as two independent rhythmic voices — a method that requires no theory knowledge and sounds good right away
- Chord arpeggiation in the underlying subdivision to create forward momentum
- Sustaining notes while moving to new chord shapes for rich, harp-like textures
- Practical voicings including drop 2 and drop 3 shapes, picking out only the notes you want
- Chord substitutions: secondary dominants, tritone subs, and approach chords
- An intro and ending built on a dreamy C sus/C11 pedal tone, plus walking bass with thumb strokes and palm muting
- Improvising from "islands" along the neck, bebop phrasing fundamentals, and blues phrases for color
Jake demonstrates passages slowly and in close-up, explaining not just what to play but why. No tablature is offered because Jake improvises his arrangements fresh each performance — instead you'll learn the concepts and tools to do the same.
Lessons in this masterclass
Lessons
- 1A Foggy Day - Full Lesson
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