Melodic Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary
$24.99
Not just another chord dictionary — a musical approach to real-world voicings.
What you get:
🎸 Over 2000+ Beautiful Chord Voicings
💡 Unique & Practical “Melodic” Organisational System
🧠Tips, Wisdom, and 5 Performance Transcriptions
📽 Includes 4+ Hours of Bonus Video
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What you get
- 125 Pages
- 2,000+ of Tim's favorite voicings, practically and musically organized
- Practical Advice & Transcriptions
- Bonus Video Masterclasses
Available in Paperback and PDF
Chord Companion!
COVERING
- How to get the most from the book
- 2,000+ voicings covering major, minor, half-diminished, diminished, dominant, and altered dominant
- Ted Greene’s voicing systems
- Study transcriptions of: Darn That Dream, Just Friends,
Lover Man, Tangerine, and jazz blues - 2 bonus video masterclasses
- Practice and arranging advice, covering voice leading and more
✨ Beyond a Dictionary: This course includes Videos & Transcriptions
Over 300+ 5-Star Reviews on Amazon!
Nobody
September 3, 2024
Incredible and unique resource for arranging chord solos. Incredible value with 4 hours of video.
We are lucky to have Ted Greene’s best student, Tim Lerch in the world to create such a valuable asset as this book. He came up with an original idea for the book and executed it to perfection. I own about a million guitar books and this is the one I’d personally recommend for chord soloing, even for a beginner at it. Thank you, Tim.
Javier C
August 8, 2022
Real applications beautifully presented and suggested. From a humble and honest master guitarist.
There is nothing i dislike from this book, Mr. Lerch has been kind and humble to provide us, guitarists with something that is already applicable to a real playing situation, regardless of what style of music you play. I am not a jazz guitarist by any means, but I am jazz oriented. I’ve known and been following Tim Lerch for the last 12 years. And have known of Ted Greene for years. Having this book being made by someone that got the beautiful opportunity to study and be called one of the best students from Mr Greene himself and being as humble as Tim is, you wont find that that easy. Great book and tool. I recommend watching and complementing this with Tim’s youtube videos and also if you did not noticed, this book comes with Additional Online media, Worth even more than the actual value of this book on its own. Thank you very much Tim Lerch, for making this accessible for everyone that is not a 1×1 student of yours. Thank you.
Ronald A. Reynolds
April 3, 2024
An invaluable tool to speed up the arrangement process
Really well laid out book that makes it much easier to find the type of chord I’m looking for when creating an arrangement. If you want to expand your knowledge or need a great reference guide this book is for you!
 David Keary
November 22, 2023
A superb resource for the jazz guitarist.
This is a great book (in my opinion) that at first glance seems better suited for the intermediate or higher level. However, the concepts are what every guitar player needs who want to play jazz. I think the advanced beginner would get a tremendous benefit with this book with a teacher to help guide, and for anyone who puts in the amount of time to get better. Great teacher and player who has given us a great resource! For the solo jazz artist, to me it’s a MUST HAVE!
 Dog Owner
November 1, 2024
Not Another Boring Chord Book
The approach the book takes is a great idea. Grouping chord types by a note in the melody makes it very useful for developing chord melody pieces. The book arrived today and it is already improving my chord melody playing. Nice to spend less time fiddling with chord voicings and more time playing.
 Curtis de la Cruz
June 19, 2024
New to Guitar Chord Melody…Excellent Book to have
I am new to playing guitar chord melody. I am fascinated by beautiful chord harmony of the Guitar. Discovering this approach by Tim Lerch has been a blessing. Even though I just got the book, reading through the beginning is giving me a way to easily begin to understand how to logically create harmony and melody. If you are inquisitive and enjoy tinkering around the fretboard this book will open the doors to your thinking and approach to Guitar Chord Melody, that is creating music, beautiful Guitar music.
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"This book was GuitarVivo’s first publication and is symbolic of what we stand for: innovation, practicality, and accessibility. The chord dictionary has existed for decades, but this book completely reimagines the concept to give the reader complete melodic control by presenting voicings in a melody-first system. The layout of this book allows you to easily find any melody note, on any string, for every chord type, instantly. It's perfect for solo jazz guitar, chord melody playing, comping, creative arpeggio playing, and pretty much anything else your imagination can dream up."
Luke Lewis
Founder of GuitarVivo
VOICE LEAD LIKE NEVER BEFORE
The Melodic Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary is a brand-new direction in cataloguing chords for the modern jazz guitarist.
This chord encyclopaedia features over 500 unique voicings all organised in a functional melodic manner.
Need a minor/b5 chord with a natural ninth in the melody? Or maybe an altered dominant chord with a sharp five on top?
Find it in seconds and start to create flowing chord melody arrangements of your favourite standards or even add new melodic layers to your comping.
This chord dictionary is built from the top down, allowing you to take control of the melody and chose from a wide array of colours and extensions to support it.
You’ll be voice-leading like never before and building a functional knowledge of chords and the fretboard in no time with the Melodic Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary.
ABOUT TIM...
World renowned guitarist educator and Emmy award winning composer, Tim is a member of the legendary Northwest Gypsy Jazz Group Pearl Django as well as performing solo and duo jazz guitar gig.
In addition to his live playing and recording schedule, Tim is also a well respected and popular teacher with a busy schedule of private lessons, classes and workshops.
Tim Lerch
Tim Lerch is a masterful jazz and blues guitarist known for his warm tone, sophisticated chord-melody playing, and deep knowledge of harmonic concepts. A dedicated educator and performer, he has released acclaimed instructional content through TrueFire, performed with the legendary Hot Club group Pearl Django, and carries on the solo guitar tradition inspired by his mentor, Ted Greene.
