| Ted Greene
Arrangements Ted Greene was a truly amazing guitarist who died in July 2005. Jim Bachman, a student of Ted's, kindly donated a series of his arrangements to PlayJazzGuitar.com. These arrangements are lesson style chord charts which include voicings Ted wrote out for Jim, and for probably hundreds of other guitar students. Jim Bachman is a guitar teacher in Atascadero C.A. He received his B.A in music from Cal Poly San Luis obispo. Jim took lessons from Ted Greene in the 80's. This is how he remembers him: " I will miss him a lot. Since my student days with Ted I talked to him more then a dozen times. When I lived in Santa Barbara I would go down to Los Angeles and take a two hour lesson from him once a month. By the end of the lesson my head would be FULL!!! He would always say "Have you had enough?" Ted would usually give me home work. I worked exclusively on chord melody and reharmonization. The lessons would start by me showing him what I had done on a given tune, for example "I can't help falling in love with you". Then he would pick it apart and show me endless possiblities. That could lead into practicing all my V1, V2 etc....(Voicing One and Two) chords. Which I still do! - with the metronome. He was REALLY big on all his students knowing how to cycle through a key and not just a key but all keys. Whenever
I mentioned single note soloing he would laugh and say "Now why do
you want to do that?" and refer me to his books. Ted is probably
looking on all of us guitarists and smiling!!" The pdf files
are quite large so give them a while to download. Right click and "save
target as" to put them on your hard drive, then print them out! |