Posts by jazz-guitar-licks
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Major Triads - Guitar Cheat Sheet
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-09-30
- In Infographics
- 2 comments
This infographic show the main major triad positions on the guitar neck. Get more triad shapes with this PDF.
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Diatonic Dyads For Guitar - Lesson With Shapes - Music Theory
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-09-29
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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In music, a dyad refers to a two-note chord or interval. Unlike traditional chords, which consist of three or more notes played simultaneously, dyads are comprised of only two notes. This guitar lesson explores the concept of diatonic dyads.
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10 Jazz Guitar Intros and Endings with Tabs and Audio Files
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-09-27
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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There are mutliple ways of taking an intro or ending a jazz tune.
You can start from the V of the key, simply play the last 4 or 8 bars of the tune, try to incorporate a turnaroud and its several variations, the list is long....
You''ll find in this lesson 10 jazz guitar progressions with tabs, standard notation and audio files that work both as intros and endings for any jazz standards in C major.
Altough all these exercises are in the key of C major, it is possible and very important to transpose them in any key.
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What Scales To Play Over Chords - 17 Essential Scale Shapes
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-09-14
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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What Scale To Choose For Improvising?
One of the most common question a beginner asks when he wants to start improvising on guitar is : Which scale to choose over which chords? However, there is a lot of scale and a lot of chord, it is easy to get lost. That's why it is important to make the relation between them, trying to understand what is the appropriate scale that fit the chord and vice versa.
This guitar lesson provides the seventeen most important scales with shapes and formulas to know for improvising over the most used chord types in jazz music (major, minor, dominant and diminished).
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36 Ways of Playing a Dominant 7 Chord on Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-07-30
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Dominant 7 chords are one of the most important chords to know, they can be found in many styles of music as blues, funk, pop and of course in jazz music. In this lesson we will see how dominant 7 chords are built and how to play them on guitar using 36 different voicing shapes.
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15 Easy Jazz Guitar Chord Shapes For Beginners - Infographic
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-07-28
- In Infographics
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This guitar infographic provides 15 easy jazz chords for beginners.
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Harmonization of the Melodic Minor Scale - Chord Shapes and Theory
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-07-26
- 2 comments
In this lesson we will see how to harmonize the melodic minor scale in thirds with seventh chords. In other words we will see how to build seventh chords by stacking thirds from each degree of the melodic minor scale.
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What Scale to Play Over 7b9 Chord
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-07-12
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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Dominant 7 flat ninth chords (7b9) are generally related to the fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale known as Phrygian dominant scale, which makes it the most obvious choice for improvising over 7b9 chords. However, we will see in this article that there are many other options. -
5 Easy Jazz Blues Arpeggio Studies For Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-06-26
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
- 2 comments
This lesson contains five free guitar studies for beginners that outline the use of arpeggios over a Bb jazz blues progression. There are different kinds of jazz blues progressions. The one that is used in this eBook is built with a secondary dominant (VI7), a passing diminished (#IVdim7) and a turnaround (I7, VI7, iim7, V7).
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Eb7
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I7
IV7
I7
I7
Eb7
Edim7
Bb7
G7(b9)
IV7
#IVdim7
I7
VI7
Cm7
F7
Bb7 G7 (b9)
Cm7 F7
iim7
V7
I7 VI7
iim7 V7
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Jazz Guitar Methods - eBooks & Printable PDF with Tabs, Standard Notation & Audio Files
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-06-25
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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This page lists the eBooks available for download on the website. All theses methods are in PDF format, so they can be printed and viewed on all types of media systems (tablets, smartphones and computers). -
Joe Pass Blues - Transcription with Video and Analysis
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-06-07
- 1 comments
Joe's blues is a 12-bar blues taken from one of the many Joe Pass methods named "Joe Pass on Guitar". This lesson covers the first 24 bars of the original lesson. If you listen to the audio file provided with the book you can hear that there are a lot of mistakes in the transcription. That's why I have decided to transcribe those lines directly from what I heard.
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How to Practice Pentatonic Scales On Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-06-01
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Pentatonic scales are scales with five notes per octave. They are frequently used in music all over the world. The word "pentatonic" comes from the Greek word "pente" meaning five and "tonic" meaning tone.
Talk of "the" pentatonic scale generally make reference to the major pentatonic scale and its relative minor. It's a mistake, indeed there are many types of pentatonic scales (Egyptian, Ritusen, Man gong, Altered, Locrian...).
Pentatonic scales are considered earlier than heptatonic scales (seven-note scales) and can be divided into two categories :
- Containing semitones (hemitonic)
- Without semitones (anhemitonic)
The purpose of this post is to propose some tips and ideas for practicing and develop pentatonic scales.
