Play Summertime
How to play summertime over a backing track. The trick to this- well, one of ’em anyway- is to hold the idea of the chord in your head while you’re playing extemporaneously. I wouldn’t expect you to believe that I’m thinking of the chord tones as numbers but in fact, if you can understand that one chords 3rd is the same note as another chord’s major 7th you can treat that note as having either role. Or any, really- that’s the beauty of making stuff up out of hand. Oh, plus the fact that you can find some tasty melody, commit it to some memorable form et voila! You have written your own music.
Song lesson list
I’ve made lessons for literally hundreds of songs for students over the years- all different types of music, different genres and differing levels of complexity. Check out the song list page linked above and see if there’s something there you’d like to cover. Many of them have a combination of chord and lyric sheets, lead sheets, video lessons and style examples. If you’re interested in a song you don’t see, let me know!