Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Jazz Guitar Lesson: Modernizing The 2-5-1 Using 4th's
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Jazz Guitar Lesson: Modernizing The 2-5-1 Using 4th's
PDF/TAB of this lesson with backing tracks available on my Patreon page: patreon.com/ChrisWhitemanMusic
Membership includes access to this lesson and access to ALL of my previous Patreon Lessons with accompanying TAB/PDF Files, as well as 25% Off My Arrangements at Musicnotes.com
chriswhitemanmusic.com
patreon.com/ChrisWhitemanMusic
Chris' Latest Album: chriswhiteman.hearnow.com
Joe Diorio Intervalic Designs for Jazz Guitar: amzn.to/3vBlaNu
Books & Gear I use and Recommend:
The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine
amzn.to/4s1NdOO
Thomastik-Infeld Flatwounds 11-47
amzn.to/44yMTNs
Quilter Amp:
amzn.to/4oZdpqC
Joe Pass Chord Solos: For Guitar, Vibes, and All Keyboard Instruments
amzn.to/44Rb7ml
Wes Montgomery Guitar Folio
amzn.to/45mzWGM
The New Real Book by Chuck Sher
amzn.to/49j31nV
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![Whats New? - Jazz Guitar Chord Melody
Whats New? - Jazz Guitar Chord Melody
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I am using a 1959 Gibson ES-125T (thinline) and a Quilter 101 mini reverb head, pine cabinet that I built with 10 Eminence lil buddy (Hemp coned speaker). The mic is the industry standard Royer r121 run into a Cloud Cl-1 Cloudlifter to boost the signal, Apogee Duet interface into a iMac using Logic proX. Video is shot with an Iphone X (4k) and synced in Logic. Then video is edited in iMovie (fades in and out), exported in 4k and uploaded to Youtube.
Solo version of the 1939 jazz standard Whats New composed by Bob Haggart, with lyrics by Johnny Burke.
from wikipedia: It was originally an instrumental tune titled Im Free by Haggart in 1938, when Haggart was a member of Bob Crosby and His Orchestra. The tune was written with a trumpet solo, meant to showcase the talents of band-mate Billy Butterfield. Crosbys orchestra recorded Im Free the same day it was written.
The following year, the music publishers hired Johnny Burke to write lyrics for the tune. Burkes telling of the torch song is unique, using one side of a casual conversation between former lovers. Thus the song was retitled using the songs first line, Whats New?. The song was recorded with the new title in 1939 by Bob Crosby and His Orchestra with vocalist Teddy Grace. The song reached a peak chart position of #10.[1]
Bing Crosby recorded the song on June 30, 1939 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra[2] and this was the biggest hit recording of the song, peaking at #2 during a 10-week stay in the charts.[3] Other popular 1939 recordings of Whats New include Hal Kemp and His Orchestra with vocalist Nan Wynn, which peaked at #11, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra with vocalist Louise Tobin, which peaked at #7. Dexter Gordon regularly performed the song in the 1950s and 1960s.
Im Free was lyricized again in the 1990s, this time by Catherine OBrien, who also provided lyrics to the Haggart tune My Inspiration. OBriens version, published in 1996, retains the original title, Im Free.
Whats New was the title track of a Triple Platinum 1983 album by Linda Ronstadt, one of three recordings she released backed by The Nelson Riddle Orchestra. Lindas earnest version of the song, released as the albums first single, reached the Top 40 of the Cash Box Top 100 chart and peaked at #53 on the Billboard Hot 100. It achieved far greater success at Adult Contemporary radio, where it spent several weeks in the Top Five.
I am using a 1959 Gibson ES-125T (thinline) and a Quilter 101 mini reverb head, pine cabinet that I built with 10 Eminence lil buddy (Hemp coned speaker). The mic is the industry standard Royer r121 run into a Cloud Cl-1 Cloudlifter to boost the signal, Apogee Duet interface into a iMac using Logic proX. Video is shot with an Iphone X (4k) and synced in Logic. Then video is edited in iMovie (fades in and out), exported in 4k and uploaded to Youtube. - wikipedia
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Books & Gear I use and Recommend:
The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine
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Thomastik-Infeld Flatwounds 11-47
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Quilter Amp:
https://amzn.to/4oZdpqC
Joe Pass Chord Solos: For Guitar, Vibes, and All Keyboard Instruments
https://amzn.to/44Rb7ml
Wes Montgomery Guitar Folio
https://amzn.to/45mzWGM
The New Real Book by Chuck Sher
https://amzn.to/49j31nV
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