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I am so inspired by this course! I have put all my focus on this ever since starting the lessons. The light bulb moment for me was the fact that I never once considered combining the role of the melody with the song progression. I never knew that was possible for a guitarist. I generally play music by myself so it really works for me. I have started making videos of myself as you suggested and then move on to another one. I have done My Ideal, Nature Boy, No Other Love, and Ballad of the Sad Young Men.
Sean Wholey
I was so excited when I found "Chord Melody Magic" I love everything about the course. I love your teaching style and I love the actual material content. I researched close to a dozen programs from other sources before I made my purchase. Yours was by far the superior offering. So.. thank you for giving everyone a great course.
Robert Tracy
Jared's course is all that any budding arranger could hope for . . . After looking at other peoples take on arranging and generally ending up with more questions than answers, Jared's course was so refreshingly straight forward.
Bob Harrison
you have thought of every base to cover, your experience and passion as a top teacher in guitar really shines... GREAT! :-)
Adam
I love your chord melody magic. Hey Everybody! It does work. Thank you Jared.
David Lind
I wondered if there was a systematic process that could be mapped out to learning a method of playing chords with melody interweaved and lo and behold Jared has developed one. thank you Jared for your excellent pedagogy!
Steve
Just started Jarad's Chord Melody Magic Course. This plug and play concept is brilliant for learning how to harmonise melody lines.
Lily
Instead of rote learning someone else's arrangement I now have some tools to play with harmonising melodies for myself. So thank you! I will dust off my Real Book and my Simple Folk Tunes with Chords and spend more time working through the course again. It's actually a big deal for me. Well done. Your course hits the button.
Ken
Chord Melody Magic provides the chord architecture to help be creative, with comprehensive downloads.... Jared's approach makes it easily accessible and it helps expand your guitar playing, I've found it enjoyable and worthwhile 👍
John Gregg
Years ago, my wife arranged for me to travel to California to take a 4 day seminar from Martin Taylor. His approach to jazz arrangement is based on using 7ths and 10ths to define the chords, then adding an interesting melody line. We spent a lot of money on the airline tickets and the seminar, and I got some good info, but this course from you is what I was really looking for.
Jim
I appreciate that you bring mindfulness to your teaching, and lots of consideration along with hard work. Your lessons, modules and courses have an arc and a satisfying completeness to them. I'm improving steadily by incorporation these practices in my playing.
Gene
I'm having a great time currently going through the first 2 modules, seeing how much there is to learn and the various ways to approach the same melody!
Ben
Jared, All l've done so far is watch module one and part of two and mess around a bit with the Minor 7 dictionary patterns. I feel like my guitar is singing in new ways and my playing already sounds more interesting (to my own ears at least). Thank you!
Aaron
Jared, 50 years ago, I worked through A Modern Method for Guitar by William Leavitt (Berklee Press). The end result was very similar to what you are playing. But his "method" wasn't nearly as methodical as yours. I learned a lot of etudes. A little bit rubbed off and became part of my vocab. But most of it was just playing by rote. I think your method is brilliant.
Keith
Your videos are top notch and your courses as well. I am working through your Chord Melody course and it is just an absolute wealth of knowledge.
Henk
It's extremely well thought through and presented. You don't go for the "quick fix" approach - you are really teaching guitar in a serious-minded way and I love that.
Sandy
I'm working on right now the Melody magic and in some ways I think they are the most game changing lessons in your catalog. . . they're all of value and all good but this one (chord melody magic) unlocks the guitar and opens the door for all the other lessons to make more sense.
David
I have been trying to put appropriate chords to melodies for a long time and came to the conclusion that it was something I just couldn't do. I couldn't find anything to help me master it. Working through this process on just the first string and I now know that I will be able to do it and it isn't going to take that long.
Gerry
I am enjoying the course and am learning so much about guitar logic and music theory from your teaching. It is very exciting.
Robert