Hello,
I've been studying jazz mandolin with Aaron for a little over a year.
During the course of our lessons we worked on a chord melody for Pennies From Heaven. As we worked on this piece I began transcribing the chord melody solo from his YouTube video - mostly as notes for myself and eventually I transcribed the entire solo.
There have been a lot of requests for transcriptions of Aaron's playing so I spoke with Aaron about posting this for the Mandolin Cafe folks. He thought it would be fine. To be clear - this is my transcription. Aaron is not endorsing it and has not checked the transcription for accuracy, but he's seen me play through it a few times - so here it is.
The URL for the video of Aaron playing this version of Pennies From Heaven is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq18...HZu6m4&index=1
A few suggestions:
1) Buy Aaron's Mel Bay Chord Melody System. Get familiar and comfortable with the new chord voicings you'll discover there.
2) Make sure you can play and understand what is going on in Etude #2. It is essential a study of Pennies From Heaven and is significantly easier to play than his YouTube version. So get that under your fingers first!
3) This is a very difficult piece - take it slowly, one verse at a time. I've been working on this for year now.
Terry Pender
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