On the Sunny Side of the Street

from: Chord Melody Mandolin with Aaron Weinstein

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Learn how to combine chords and melody to play jazz standards in the style pioneered by jazz mandolinist Jethro Burns and guitarists like Joe Pass and Bucky Pizzarelli.

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Chord Melody Basics, Part 2: Picking-Hand Technique

Your fretting hand determines the notes you’re playing but your picking hand determines how those notes (and chords) are articulated. Aaron shows you how to create different sounds with the two progressions you learned in Part 1 by separating the chord and melody notes in different rhythmic ways, for example, playing the melody note before the full chord, or the bass note before the full chord. He also demonstrates how you can combine these approaches to give your chord melody performance some rhythmic variety.

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On the Sunny Side of the Street

“On the Sunny Side of the Street” Play-Along Track

On the Sunny Side of the Street

The jazz standard “On the Sunny Side of the Street” was written in 1930 by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, and has been recorded by innumerable musicians. On the mandolin, it starts with a big leap: from the third fret G note on the E string to an E7 chord at the 12th fret. Aaron approaches the A parts of “On the Sunny Side of the Street” in standard chord melody fashion, combining single-note melody lines with chords, but he adds a walking bass to his arrangement of the bridge.

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