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Jazz Guitar Licks.com provides free and paid learning material for guitar players.
BLOG
The blog section provides a lot of free learning material covering many topics grouped into several categories :
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CHORDS
Everything you ever wanted to know about jazz guitar chords is here. How they are built, how to play them on guitar .
These lessons with tab, charts, diagrams and practice tips give useful information on triads (major, minor, diminished, augmented,etc.), tetrads (seventh and sixth chords) , extended chords (9th, 11th, 13th) , altered chords, drop 2, 3 and 2-4 voicings, etc.
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SCALES
Jazz guitar scales are very important devices when learning jazz guitar.
You will find in these lessons the most important scales and modes that any jazz guitar player need to know such as diatonic scales, melodic minor, harmonic minor, harmonic major, melodic minor, symmetic, pentatonic scales, bebop scales, blues scales.
Each article contains charts, exercices, theoretical explanations and guitar shapes.
MODES OF THE HARMONIC MINOR SCALE
MODES OF THE HARMONIC MAJOR SCALE
MODES OF THE MELODIC MINOR SCALE
MODES OF THE DOUBLE HARMONIC SCALE
PDF METHODS WITH AUDIO FILES
Here is the list of the printable PDF methods available for download.
40 MINOR II V I JAZZ GUITAR LICKS
MINOR 2 5 1 CHORDS - 40 EXERCISES
WALKING BASS LINES WITH CHORDS
40 MIXOLYDIAN JAZZ GUITAR LICKS
40 MINOR (DORIAN) JAZZ GUITAR LICKS
40 MAJOR (IONIAN) JAZZ GUITAR LICKS
40 DOMINANT JAZZ BLUES GUITAR LICKS
101 DOMINANT ARPEGGIO PATTERNS
50 II V I JAZZ GUITAR CHORD VOICINGS
40 DOMINANT JAZZ BLUES GUITAR LICKS
49 ESSENTIAL JAZZ GUITAR LICKS
25 PENTATONIC JAZZ GUITAR LICKS
ARPEGGIOS
Arpeggios are very used tools when improvising on chord changes because they easily outline the harmony of any jazz tune. They also have the advantage of being quite easy to learn and to play on guitar, that's the reason why beginners generally start to learn jazz improvisation using arpeggios.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of what you can find arpeggios on this website :
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LICKS AND SOLO TRANSCRIPTIONS
Learning basic jazz patterns, essential licks or riffs and lines taken from improvised solos of the greatest jazz players can be very helpful to expand your jazz vocabulary.
This section offers some exercices with tab, standard notation, audio files and theory based on classic jazz lines transcibed from famous jazz musicians such as Wes Montgomery, Emily Remler, Kenny Burrell, George Benson, Miles Davis, Joe Pass, Pat Martino, John Scofield, Barney Kessel, Grant Green, Charlie Christian.
Some of these jazz lines are accompanied with YouTube videos.
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CHEAT SHEETS
A collection of free and paid printable music cheat sheets for teachers and students
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GUITAR POSTERS
You will find in the following pages some instructional reference posters for guitarists.
Last edited: 2021-10-12