How Long Has This Been Going On?: Guitar TAB Digital Sheet Music

A sophisticated, intimate standard with sophisticated chord changes that unfolds like a conversation. The melody sits naturally on the fingerboard and invites you to find your own phrasing within its elegant arc.

Guitar players comfortable reading TAB who want to add a jazz standard to their repertoire. Works well for players developing melodic sensibility and learning how to interpret a familiar tune in their own voice.

• Pay attention to the phrasing marked in the TAB; this tune breathes like vocal melody, so resist rushing through passages that land on or near phrase endings.
• If you're improvising over changes, map out the harmonic movement first so your lines respond to the underlying structure rather than just the written melody.
• Nail the articulation and dynamics indicated; the standard's elegance lives in the details of attack and release, not volume.

Feature this in a recital as a solo piece or as the lead voice in a small ensemble arrangement. It also works as a teaching piece to help students understand how standards translate across instruments and how TAB can bridge the gap for players learning jazz vocabulary.

• reading TAB notation with attention to articulation and phrasing
• interpreting standard melody with musical sensitivity
• understanding how jazz standards sit on the guitar fingerboard
• developing interpretive choices within a written framework