Standards Navigator: Stella by Starlight Analysis for Jazz Guitar

[@Mixolydians692]

Really enjoying this series on standards and how you are approaching improv from a chord-scale/key center approach👍👍keep it up!

[@jazzguitar]

Thank you so much!

[@JonAadneAadnesen]

I enjoyed this format and will be happy to see it applied on other standards.

[@jazzguitar]

Thanks, more are coming soon :)

[@graemero5532]

Thanks Marc 👍🏻

[@jdlilley1]

Very helpful. Thank you. Love the new Standards Navigator approach. Maybe you could do the same for comping: I always spend so much time on my soloing that I never seem to work on interesting comping strategies for standards. Again, many thanks!

[@boyaks09]

Can you tell me which software you are using. Thanks

[@jazzguitar]

iReal Pro

[@Ana_crusis]

Don't you think it's time we all got away from these old standards?? Why do we keep playing these old songs that are from the 1930s etc?? Some of them are quite good they were good at the time but now they're just old fashioned songs. And some of them never were that good. Just little songs from shows etc. I hope people are not playing popular tunes from these days In a 100 years!! It's time to abandon these ancient old tunes. You should all be playing more modern stuff. And if you haven't got a lot of modern stuff then get some writers onto the job.. I mean really! Come on!! It's very "Amish" of you all. Stuck in the past driving about in a Ford model T. Get with the times, cat! 😂 You gotta be more hip to the beat (Man)

[@grahampearcey626]

I think you're completely missing the point...the key phrases to understanding this is 'harmonic analysis' and improv . The journey to the present and thence the future, begins in the past

[@Ana_crusis]

@@grahampearcey626 I think that sounds like absolute bollocks 😄 we've been regurgitating these old tin Pan alley tunes for far too long. When the Great Bebop musicians were improvising over these chords to popular songs they were current songs in the main or not particularly old. But now they are particularly old and we go over and over and over them as if there was nothing else in the world to play over. And there's nothing special about a lot of these songs and their tunes. We can't keep on playing the same old rubbish. We can do our "harmonic analysis" a million other ways. we don't have to do it by looking at 2 5 1s from Broadway circa 1940. It's as if we were all stuck playing early Beatles tunes. And nobody was going to look at anything that happened afterwards. It's the same structure of western music you don't need a certain set of tunes written at a certain time that have become somehow essential for musical progress. "Path to the future"? That's just rhetorical nonsense if we haven't forged a musical path to the future by now we never will!! As for "Journey to the present", ...... Well, 'no comment' is the politest thing I can say there.

[@grahampearcey626]

@@Ana_crusis Really? So nothing's happened since then? I could rattle of a shedload of names to illustrate the point, but I doubt that you have and interest in getting the bee out of your bonnet because you obviously enjoy stewing in your embitterment.Your obviously a virtuoso on higher plain from use earthlings striving to rise above our mediocrity and fly a little higher, even if we never reach your height. It's about LEARNING how to use this old stuff to get to a better place and not only enjoy the destination but the journey. We're just people...we can't all be Rozenwinkels, Kreisbergs, Lages or Halls, but we can become competent jazz guitarists if we plug away at his stuff. This thread is obviously too lowly for you -- solution? Leave