"Have You Met Miss Jones?" - Masterclass

Randy Johnston teaches the Rodgers and Hart standard "Have You Met Miss Jones?" from the ground up: the single-note melody, a chord melody arrangement, the harmonic progressions, and single-note soloing ideas you can apply to many other standards. By the end you'll be able to play the tune as a solo guitar piece or with a group, and improvise on it with confidence.

What's covered

• A complete chord solo / chord melody version of the tune, with a lead sheet included
• Back cycles — inserting chords that move in fourths and half steps to connect the I chord to the ii chord
• Diminished 7th chords as rootless dominant 7b9 substitutes, and why there are really only three diminished chords
• Clearing up the tune's famously tricky bridge
• Building solo lines with digital sequences (5-1-3 triad patterns) and common-tone sequences over the back-cycle changes
• Using contrary motion and tetrachord shapes to simplify the fingerboard
• Alternate harmonic progressions you can transfer to other standard songs

This class came about by popular vote after Randy's live webinar, and it suits intermediate players who want to take one great standard deep. Chord diagrams are included. Running time: 2 parts totaling 1 hour 10 minutes.