Posts by jazz-guitar-licks
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Minor 2 5 1 Jazz Guitar Licks - Cheat Sheets
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-06-24
- In Infographics
- 0 comments
Check out these easy minor 2 5 1 jazz guitar licks with chord shapes taken from the PDF method.
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Inside Scofield - A Film About The legendary John Scofield
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-06-15
- In Music Reviews
- 2 comments
Hi - let me shortly introduce the official film about one of today's greatest guitar players - John Scofield!
Please consider supporting and sharing it now - it's on Kickstarter for a couple more days:
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We have some very really nice perks, affordable to everyone who wants to watch this film. Every pledge would help to get it made!Thanks so much,
the Inside Scofield Team
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1 6 2 5 Turnaround Variations - Lesson With Guitar Tabs & Theory
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-04-17
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
- 2 comments
A turnaround is a section of two or four bars at the end of a tune.
Its role is to create a harmonic transition going back to the beginning.
It present in many jazz tunes and is an important part of "rhythm changes" progressions.
They is also used to create effective jazz intros and endings.
This lesson with guitar tabs contains 17 exercises for better understanding of the 1 6 2 5 turnaround and its variations.
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Walking Bass Lines and Chords - Cheat Sheets
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-04-13
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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Here is a serie of guitar walking bass lines and chords cheat sheets for jazz comping.
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After You've Gone - Jazz Guitar Walking Bass And Chord Study
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-04-12
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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After You've Gone is a pop song composed in 1918 by Turner Layton. This blog post provides an easy walking bass lines and chords arrangement with tabs for guitar.
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3 Note Chords - Shell Voicings - Guide Tone Chords - Guitar Lesson With Shapes
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-04-07
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Shell voicings are better known as 3-note chords (or guide tone chords).
They are made up of the most essential notes (root, third and seventh) that define a chord (the fifth is omitted).
They can very useful for beginner guitarists who want to explore basic guitar comping rhythms.
This lesson provides the essential chord shapes and exercises for practicing them on guitar.
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Walking Bass Exercises For Jazz Guitar - Lesson With Tabs and Audio
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-04-05
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
- 2 comments
This concept highly prized by solo guitar players consists in mixing chords and bass lines. It can be very useful for guitarists who want to accompany a singer or a soloist in a duo situation.
Guitar walking bass lines involve playing one note on each beat in order to make the link between the chords of a progression as a bass player would do.
They are usually played fingerstyle, basses are played with the thumb whereas the other chord tones are played with the fingers.
This free lesson with tabs and guitar shapes provides some easy examples.
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All Of Me - Guitar Chord Melody
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-03-05
- In Jazz Standards
- 4 comments
A new video is available on the YouTube channel. This is a chord melody arrangement with synced shapes for jazz guitar of the standard All of Me by Simons & Marks.
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15 Easy Jazz Guitar Chords For Beginners
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-02-28
- In Chords / Voicings
- 0 comments
This lesson provides 15 basic jazz guitar chord positions that every beginning jazz guitar player should know.
These chords are grouped into five families :
- Major seventh chords (Maj7)
- Minor seventh (m7)
- Dominant 7th (7)
- Half diminished / minor seventh flat fifth (m7b5)
- Diminished 7th (dim7)
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Jazz Guitar Chords For Beginners - Complete Guide
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-02-15
- 2 comments
Learning jazz guitar chords is a real challenge for beginners.
In this lesson, you will understand how they are built and how to play them on guitar.
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Variations Of Jazz Blues Progression - 10 Guitar Exercises - YouTube Video Lesson
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-02-12
- 0 comments
A new video has been published on the YouTube channel. It contains 10 exercises with chord shapes and numeral analysis about different types of variations of the jazz blues progression for jazz guitar rhythm.
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How To Change The Strings Of a Steel-String Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-02-02
- 0 comments
This infographic show how to change the strings of your steel-string guitar.
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Triad Pairs For Jazz Guitar - Theory, Tabs, Exercises
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-02-02
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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The triad pair system is a technique used by many jazz improviser to build modern improvised lines.
It consists of playing two adjacent triads from a scale.
The most used are from the major diatonic system, however it is possible to use triad pairs from other scales as melodic minor, harmonic minor and harmonic major.
This guitar lesson with tabs, shapes and theory is focused on triad pairs from the major scale only.
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Jazz Guitar Method - PDF eBook - 40 Dominant (Mixolydian) Guitar Licks
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-01-27
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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A brand new PDF method is available for download. It rounds out the two previous eBooks Ionian jazz guitar licks and Dorian jazz guitar licks. This book contains 40 dominant jazz guitar lines with tabs, audio files and theory based on the Mixolydian mode for beginners and intermediate players.
Package Details:
- 1 Printable PDF file (high resolution).
- 40 MP3 Audio files related to each lick (high quality).
- 1 Jazz backing track.
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Guitar Chord Construction - Theory And Basic Shapes - Essential Guide
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-01-18
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
- 6 comments
This lesson explains how jazz guitar chords are built and how to play them using common positions.
This will help you understand, identify, build and play one of the most important types of chords.
All the shapes proposed in this tutorial are movable and playable anywhere on the fretboard.
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Chord / Scale Relationships - Guitar Charts Cheat Sheet
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-01-14
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
- 0 comments
These guitar cheat sheets show the relation between common modes and chord shapes.
