How To MASTER Stella By Starlight... A Chord By Chord Guide!

[@Usefulmusic]

I've been sweating over Stella for 20 years now, by memorizing chord sequences. I have never made an improvisation on this tune that satisfies me (or anyone else!). Ms Stella's chords progress in counter-intuitive ways and it is always a great relief to me when the final 8-bar section, with its logical descending minor II Vs arrives. From your analysis, I can see what to practice. Thanks.

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Glad this lesson was helpful! Remember that there's a free PDF for this lesson on my website! Just find the thumbnail and click on it under "KZbin downloads." Happy practicing!

[@mikeranfft6361]

Fantastic condensed lesson, just great! Love all the line examples with the theory, and your solo is great-modern but rooted in the great bebop language! Thanks so much for posting this!

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Appreciate you watching, thanks!

[@stevenmartinellimusic]

You make it look and sound easy! Thanks for the lesson!

[@NathanBortonMusic]

My pleasure! Hope this helps you with the great tune!

[@fouroutoffour]

Awesome stuff man!!

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Appreciate it! Thanks for all your support on the videos!

[@李承洋-w1s]

Love your demonstration,best wishes.

[@jakelee7639]

Your videos are fantastic, so much to gain from these....many thanks for your work in making the lessons

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Glad you like them! Thanks Jake!

[@cookig1607]

Great breakdown of the tune, I will try out the ideas and concepts. Thanks Nathan 👍

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Awesome, thank you! Hope the licks and concepts help you out!

[@salvadorgarcia8661]

Como siempre, excelente y didáctica lección. Muchas gracias maestro.

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Gracias Salvador!

[@peterjenkins6064]

Really like this type of video digging into a tune. Really makes it make sense thanks.

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Thanks Peter! Appreciate the feedback!

[@aaronservice86]

Great work man! I love the content you come out with

[@NathanBortonMusic]

I appreciate that! Thanks Aaron!

[@faisletoismeme]

Yes fantastic content. Thanks

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Thanks for watching!

[@pablojuancarballorodriguez1992]

EXCELLENT MAESTRO!!!!!! I would greatly like to see your soloing of There Will Never Be Another You.. same as this Stella, Thank you for assistance. Super help. Best rregards PROFESOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@winterbottom2427]

thanks❤

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Appreciate you watching!

[@andybaldman]

What guitar is that?

[@JimDJazz]

Great video Nathan, but for the A flat 7 #11, isn't it less confusing to call it an A flat Lydian Dominant scale?

[@NathanBortonMusic]

I think what ever way works best for you is the best :) For me, I like to say Eb melodic minor because that's exactly what I play!

[@stevewhite3753]

Excellent

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Thanks for watching Steve! Hope it helped and glad your enjoying the lessons :)

[@jgbirot]

I am currently studying Stella and your video is very helpful to open my horizon. So I have listened to your album and Waow ... I was looking for Wes/Keeny/Grant influenced modern guitarist and I think I have found it. Great tone and very tasteful music. Thank you for all of this. Is it possible to find it on vynil record ?

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Amazing! Thanks for listening to the record! Unfortunately for vinyl right now, maybe on future releases. I do have physical copies for sale online though!

[@edcrutchfield3447]

Impossible 🤷🏾‍♂️but I’ll try😊! Thank you 😊

[@vizzo7]

great video. maybe you could extend it by making a tutorial about voice leading and how to approach a jazz standard to comp, specially here where the chord jumps are quite big

[@NathanBortonMusic]

Sure! I could do a video just on comping. In this one I was just focusing more on soloing and really just playing the chords to keep track of where we were in the song. A comping video could be cool!

[@jiahongyang6321]

the fmaj7 really confuses me because I don’t think Vmaj7 chord really make sense. Would you consider that as a modulation?

[@jamessidney2851]

Hey Nathan, nice breakdown. Here is a bit of honest, constructive criticism from a random viewer (me), with no disrespect intended: the low background music when you are talking makes it hard to follow what you are saying. I’m carefully trying absorb your ideas and imagine the sounds that you are describing, but there’s this other, unrelated thing happening in the background. It sort of scrambles my brain and makes the experience frustrating. But otherwise, great lesson!