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St James Infirmary Blues also known as the Gambler’s Blues is an 8 bar jazz minor blues in Dm.In this guitar lesson I’m going to be teaching you my chord melody arrangement of it.
I’ve written two chorusses of the Saint James Infirmary chord melody theme. The first one is, like in the original song, very slow. This first chorus fo St. James Infirmary Blues is suitable for jazz beginners. The second one is in double time feel. This means the tapping of your foot should now be double as fast. The duration of the chords couble up, the melody remains the same length. This faster one is suitable for intermediate to advanced jazz players. So there’s the best of both worlds 😉
You will find a lot of great jazz chords in there. I put in some inversions, plenty of dominant altered chords and one great m7b511 chord voicing.
We have a minor blues thing going on here. But it’s an 8 bar Blues, thus the bVI and V7alt occur already in the second bar. In this St James Infirmary Blues tutorial I’ll show you every aspect of that song, including all the great chord voicings, the melody and how to combine all of it.
I explain the St James Infirmary chords and the melody. Alltogether this makes for a great chord melody solo instrumental of.
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Saint James Infirmary Blues – Chord Melody Guitar Lesson:
0:00 start
0:47 Saint James Infirmary Blues – performance –
2:03 Phrase 1
4:22 Phrase 1 Slow Tempo
4:46 Phrase 2
8:14 Phrase 2 Slow Tempo
8:38 Phrase 3
10:17 Phrase 4
13:02 Phrase 3 & 4 Slow Tempo
13:42 1st Chorus – performance –
14:24 Phrase 5
17:41 Phrase 5 Slow Tempo
18:13 Phrase 6
20:42 Phrase 6 Slow Tempo
21:08 2nd Chorus – performance –
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