Alex, I always notice how delicately detailed your arrangements are as well as how nuanced your playing is -- it's so obvious that nothing gets past your ears -- and yet this never gets in the way of the flow of the song. The thing I love most in this chord melody is how you employ the bass notes -- they really add to the gravitas which is so essential to this standard.
Thank you so much my friend, as always your comment really resonates with me. I’m so glad you enjoyed it! “Gravitas” is right.. sometimes with solo guitar, it can be hard to convey the heavy, deep feeling this song warrants.. hearing all sorts of string, horn and piano accompaniments in my mind but having to make the best of just six strings and two hands! I’m thankful that you feel I did it some justice! 🙏🏻🧡
Five stars, Alex! I've been playing this tune for several years as one of my essential jazz standard favourites. You can't go wrong with the songs of Rodgers and Hart, Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Ellington, Victor Young, Vernon Duke, and so many other great composers of the past. There's hundreds more like "My Funny Valentine" and it's a lifetime challenge for all musicians.
Thank you so much! 🙏🏻 I’m totally with you.. and you listed some of my favourite writers there. I’d add Hoagy and Henry Mancini to the list too for sure. Like you say, so many beautiful tunes to explore. I often find it difficult to whittle down my list and just pick one to present in these lesson formats. Some of my private students must’ve learned 50 or more standards from me over the years. But hey.. it’s still early days for this channel.. many more arrangements to teach over many years! 🙏🏻🧡
As ever, total inspiration. Even when I don’t have access to my guitar at hand, it’s a balm to listen and think along as you lay it all out so clearly. Cheers!
Thank you my friend, glad you liked it. Of course you could play it though!.. just practice a few bars at a time, work slow and patiently until it starts to feel and sound right. 👍🏻
Sounds amazing. Can't wait to work on this hauntingly beautiful melody. My favorite is a live version by Miles Davis from 1964. It features gorgeous piano accompaniment of none other than Herbie Hancock and the other worldly rhythm section of Tony Williams (d) and Ron Carter(b). Thanks for all you do.
Another gem from the “tone master” Alex Farran, just beautifully played and thoroughly taught. I am updating my old version i currently play to this more brooding version. Thanks again for your great work!!
Nice Alex ! Another great adaptation from a beautiful song ! When your heard a song from Chet Baker for the first time you need to heard all his song … So much emotion in his voices and play trumpet with so much sensitivity… the difficult is to play slowly but keep the spirit of the song and stay in emotion cloud 😅 thanks Alex for your job and the quality of your video
@@AlexFarranGuitar chords from the first part is all from harmonic minor, right ? Even if the 7 of the melody is not major like it “should” be. I know it’s not that important, but I very like to understand things. Thanks Alex
As I’m watching this video, I see off to the side a video by you about delta blues, and another about pedal steel bends and country guitar, and I remember watching another of your demos on the style of Marc Ribot and Tom Waits. It was clearly an oversight on my part not to hit subscribe after watching the the Ribot video, but I’m correcting that right now, because in this age of incredibly one dimensional RU-vid guitarists, I really appreciate a guitarist who understands that the instrument is not limited to a single sound or genre.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate the kind words! I agree.. for me, the magic of music is the tapestry of styles and emotions it conveys. It would be eternally boring to be locked in to one very specific style for life. Thanks again mate :)
I’m not a great guitarist due to arthritis and dyspraxia but want to test myself with some witj jazz been learning some Kenny burrel lately may give this a whirl soon
