List
Jazz Standards for Guitar
A data-driven shortlist for guitarists, built around comfortable keys and a manageable number of chord shapes.
How this list is built. A tune is listed when its key tonic is in the common guitar set (C, G, D, A, E, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, or a relative minor), it has changes, and it uses at most 12 distinct chord symbols. The rule is applied to the key and changes fields, not to a subjective difficulty rating.
54 tunes
Only indexable tunes are listed.
- A Night in Tunisia
- All of Me
- Autumn Leaves
- Bags' Groove
- Basin Street Blues
- Beautiful Love
- Bebop
- Begin the Beguine
- Big Butter and Egg Man
- Billie's Bounce
- Blue in Green
- Blue Monk
- Blue Rondo à la Turk
- Blue Train
- Bohemia After Dark
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Cantaloupe Island
- Caravan
- Cotton Tail
- Dat Dere
- Days of Wine and Roses
- Dinah
- Doxy
- Equinox
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Hot House
- I Got Rhythm
- Impressions
- In a Mellow Tone
- Lady Bird
- Lester Leaps In
- Maiden Voyage
- Margie
- Mean to Me
- Mr. P.C.
- Muskrat Ramble
- Night and Day
- Oleo
- Out of Nowhere
- Perdido
- Satin Doll
- Scrapple from the Apple
- Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
- Straight, No Chaser
- Summertime
- Take Five
- Take the "A" Train
- There Is No Greater Love
- There Will Never Be Another You
- Watermelon Man
- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- Whispering
- Yardbird Suite