Jazz Play-A-Longs · Moving Chord Charts

The chart moves.
You play.

ACME Play-A-Longs are moving chord chart videos for working jazz musicians. Concert, Bb, and Eb — every song, every chorus, at tempo. Watch free on YouTube. Own the charts.

Browse Packs Watch Free on YouTube

Keys Per Song

155

BPM. No Excuses.

Real

Jazz. Full Arrangements.

What is ACME?

Built for musicians who are
serious about the shed.

No backing track without context. No chart without tempo. ACME gives you a moving chord chart at performance speed — so the work you do here is the work that shows on the bandstand.

Moving Chord Charts

The changes scroll in real time, bar by bar, synced to the recording. You always know exactly where you are in the form — chorus, section, turnaround. Play, not counting.

Three Keys, One Session

Concert pitch, Bb, and Eb every time. Piano and guitar share a chart. Tenor sax, trumpet, and soprano get theirs. Alto and bari get theirs. No transposing on the stand.

HOW TO SOLO Guides

Every Shed Pack includes instrument-specific HOW TO SOLO breakdowns — scales, danger zones, substitutions that work at tempo. Written for musicians, not beginners.

Featured

Blues Pak Vol. 1

Three cornerstone blues tunes, every key, with full HOW TO SOLO breakdowns. The foundation pack for any jazz musician who wants to own the blues.

New Release

Blues Pak
Vol. 1

F blues. Three songs. Every key. No excuses.

PDF chord charts in Concert, Bb & Eb for all 3 songs
HOW TO SOLO guide — Piano · Guitar · Tenor · Alto · Trumpet · Bass
Full arrangement notes: drum arc, bass feel, form map
Free access to all YouTube moving chord chart videos
PDF updates included if arrangements are revised

$20

$24 value

One-time · Instant download · All formats included

Buy Blues Pak Vol. 1 — $20

What's inside

Watermelon Man

Herbie Hancock · F Blues

Concert F Bb → G Eb → D

Bags' Groove

Milt Jackson · F Blues · 155 BPM

Concert F Bb → G Eb → D

Work Song

Nat Adderley · F Minor Blues

Concert F Bb → G Eb → D

Coming Soon

Bossa Nova Pak Vol. 1

Girl From Ipanema · Meditation · More

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Coming Soon

Standards Pak Vol. 1

Misty · Giant Steps · More

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Song Library

Every song. Every key.

The moving chord chart is free on YouTube. The Shed Pack — PDF charts in all three keys plus the HOW TO SOLO guide — is $6 per song.

Autumn Leaves

Kosma / Mercer · 32-bar AABA

Concert Gm Bb → Am Eb → Em

Invitation

Bronisław Kaper · C Minor

Concert Cm Bb → Dm Eb → Am

Girl From Ipanema Coming April 30

Girl From Ipanema

Jobim / Moraes · Bossa Nova

Concert F Bb → G Eb → D Vocal Db

Misty

Erroll Garner · Jazz Ballad

Concert Eb Bb → F Eb → C

Giant Steps Coming April 29

Giant Steps

John Coltrane · Samba · 220 BPM

Concert B Bb → C# Eb → G#

Meditation

Antônio Carlos Jobim · Bossa Nova

Concert C Bb → D Eb → A

Cantaloupe Island

Herbie Hancock · F Minor · Funk

Concert Fm Bb → Gm Eb → Dm

Work Song

Nat Adderley · F Minor Blues

Concert Fm Bb → Gm Eb → Dm

Watermelon Man

Herbie Hancock · F Blues

Concert F Bb → G Eb → D

In Production Bags' Groove

Bags' Groove

Milt Jackson · F Blues · 155 BPM

Concert F Bb → G Eb → D

New songs monthly

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Education

The HOW TO SOLO
Breakdowns.

Every Shed Pack includes an instrument-specific HOW TO SOLO guide. Not theory for its own sake — the scales, the danger zones, and the specific moves that work at tempo on this song.

No patronising scale diagrams. No "start on the root." ACME assumes you play, and it talks to you like a colleague who's spent real time with the changes. Practical. Direct. Specific to your instrument and your transposition.

Piano

Guitar

Tenor Sax (Bb)

Alto Sax (Eb)

Trumpet (Bb)

Baritone Sax (Eb)

Clarinet (Bb)

Bass

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Preview — HOW TO SOLO Bags' Groove · Concert F

The form is 12 bars of F blues. No tricks. The challenge is not the changes — it's the time and the space. At 155 BPM the pocket is deep, and the temptation is to fill every bar. Don't.

SOLOING: F blues scale throughout (F–Ab–Bb–B♮–C–Eb). Over F7: F mixolydian gives you the major 3rd — use it to brighten the sound when you need air. The flat-five (B natural) is the money note. Land on it, and leave.

Over Bb7 in bars 5–6: shift to Bb mixolydian. Playing F pentatonic over the IV chord tells on you every time.

THE MILT LESSON: Miles Davis's solo on the 1954 recording is phrases and rests — equal weight. The rests are not silence, they're rhythm. Play a phrase. Wait. Mean it. Space IS the statement on this tune.

The chart moves.
You play.