3 exercises for BETTER COMPING

Play chord progressions with smooth soprano lines! Strengthen your accompanying skills! Mark Mazzatenta performs 3 exercises that create smooth soprano lines (ascending, descending, and common tone) in your comping. See the link below for the sheet music examples.
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[carlotta]

your comping has always been inspiring and supporting . Now we know why !

[RobGuitar]

Thank you... That exercise makes the difference between comping and playing music

[OttoFarkas]

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

[alonalufguitar]

Great video Mark! YouTube continues to improve as an educational resource with knowledgeable teachers such as yourself. Thanks and have a nice day!

[steves]

what a great way to describe comping....smooth soprano melody

[hearpalhere]

This is a fantastic lesson, thank you very much! I look forward to putting it into practice.

[mindjob]

Great. This is what I tried to do with String of Pearls

[PutinosauRUS]

Sweet tone of the guitar and great chord progressions. Thanks

[fredrmckinney]

Brilliant! This one lesson changed the way I look at all of my jazz band charts.

[TheFloridaBikeVlogger]

good channel and I am subscribing, I really need to get better at the guitar. I am lost beyond fixing lol but I kno I can do it, I always wanted to do it and I just have to do it.

[zu]

good lesson...will you also focus on interior voices in future lessons?

[dry]

When you say it’s not creating a smooth soprano melody when you first play the chord progression…is the melody you are speaking of the same melody as the melody of the song you got he chord progression from (the Moonbeam song)? Or are you creating a separate melody from the song melody by playing the soprano note of each chord from the song you are accompanying (Moonbeam, etc)?

[dry]

So how is this different from chord melody? For instance using the chord melody approach to play jazz standards…trying to understand. How does chord melody work?

[fredmbarros]

If you're the only instrument accompanying or if you're also responsible for the low end, do you also think about the bass note? I find that, depending on the distance (in octaves) between the bass and the melody, it bothers me a bit, sounds hollow... But I keep wondering if I'm being picky, I don't know...