Erik Skye’s workshop in Seattle.

I like Eric’s music. That’s why I signed up for his workshop in Seattle at Dusty Strings the same moment I saw the ad.

The focus of the workshop was on how to arrange songs for fingerstyle guitar. Erik showed how to play jazz tunes in different styles and used Autumn Leaves as an example. He played that tune in traditional fingerstyle way, in chord-melody style, showed how to use bluegrass rolls and finished with bossa-nova interpretation.

We asked a lot of questions and got very useful answers and advises. Eric shared with us his experience, practical recommendation and tips & tricks. But what caught my eye was a (relatively) simple walking bass comping version of Autumn Leaves with interesting minor 9th chord progression in the middle.

I was lucky – Eric allowed to record the entire workshop (for my personal use only) and allowed me to publish that interesting fragment on YouTube.

Here is what you’ll see on the video below:

Part 1. Eric’s comping improvisation on Autumn Leaves with walking bass.

Part 2. Animated tab right in the video.

A pdf file with tabs is there :

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