NOTE: ALL MY EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ARE MOVING TO THE JAZZ IMPROV INSTITUTE at https://www.jazzimprov.net/ . This blog post will be retired. Every musician should sit down at the piano and hammer out the 2 note voicings for every song they learn. In this case, these are the guide tones, or the 3rds and 7ths of each chord. The guidetones are the most important parts of the chord because they identify major/minor for the 7th and the triad. Sonnymoon-for-Two-2-note-PartsDownload

NOTE: ALL MY EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ARE MOVING TO THE JAZZ IMPROV INSTITUTE at https://www.jazzimprov.net/ . This page will be retired end of 2024. Here are the chords outlined for all different instruments for Sonny Rollin's Sonnymoon for Two. You can download the chords by clicking the download button underneath the PDF. On the recording, you will hear a very "plain" blues during the first head - the changes below are the soloing changes and include turnarounds in measure 8 and…

NOTE: ALL MY EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ARE MOVING TO THE JAZZ IMPROV INSTITUTE at https://www.jazzimprov.net/ . This blog post will be retired. Below you will find a sample bass line for Sonnymoon for Two. Scroll down till you find your instrument: a C chart, an Eb chart, a Bb chart, and a bass clef chart are included. You can print directly from the website or download the chart to your device or tablet for easy viewing. Only print the page you…

NOTE: ALL MY EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ARE MOVING TO THE JAZZ IMPROV INSTITUTE at https://www.jazzimprov.net/ . This blog post will be retired. Below you will find a chord chart for the great Sonny Rollins' Sonnymoon for Two, which was originally released in 1957. You will hear him play this on his live Village Vanguard album as well as the 2005 release of The Freelance Years. Below is a recording from the Freelance Years album. https://youtu.be/KCzV9PxGS30 Below is the chord chart. In…