Blog - Jazz Guitar Lessons
Welcome to the blog of jazz-guitar-licks.com
This blog covers different topics with several useful lessons both for beginners, intermediate and advanced jazz guitar players.
Whether you're looking for tips on playing jazz guitar, this blog surely has the information you crave and will help you expand your music knowledge and technical skills.
Here below many tutorials grouped into several distinct categories:
Jazz Guitar Licks and Transcriptions
Teacher Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
Cheat Sheets, Methods, Posters, eBooks
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Triad Warm Up Exercise // Free PDF
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-07-08
- In Guitar Practice Tips
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This guitar warm-up exercise involves playing three types of triads—major, minor, and diminished—in a consecutive sequence following a descending progression.
The PDF, which includes both TAB and standard notation, is available for free (or pay what you want) in the GUMROAD STORE.
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Chromatic Descending Chord Sequence Over A Basic Blues Progression
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-06-25
- In Chords / Voicings
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This guitar lesson for beginners explains what's a basic blues progression and how to add a chromatic descending chord sequence at the end.
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Blues For John - Matteo Mancuso - Main Theme Transcription - Free PDF
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-05-29
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"Blues For John" by Matteo Mancuso is a compelling funky jazz, blues piece in F that showcases his exceptional guitar skills and deep understanding of blues music.
This lesson provides a free PDF transcription of the main theme.
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Positions Of Triads On Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-05-27
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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Triads are the building blocks of harmony and an essential concept for any guitarist looking to deepen their understanding of music theory and enhance their playing versatility.
This article provides a cheat sheet showing the positions of each type of triad (minor, major, diminished and augmented) on the guitar neck.
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7 Variations Of The Dorian Mode For Guitar - Diagrams & Formula Charts
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-05-10
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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This guitar lesson provides 7 alternative scales to the Dorian mode.
These scales all include a supplementary note, making them octatonic scales (made of eight notes).
They can be used over minor chords and prove to be an original choice to enhance your soloing skills.
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Arpeggios And Related Chords On Guitar - Cheat Sheet
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-04-27
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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Here is a free printable sheet cheat for guitar showing the relation between the main types of arpeggios and chord voicings with fifth in the bass.
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Warm up Jazz Guitar Exercise - Bebop Melodic Line And 3-note Chords - Free PDF
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-04-24
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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This lesson offers an easy warm up exercise for guitar implying a bebop melodic pattern and five 3-note chord voicings to play over a 2 5 progression.
You can download the transcription and chord charts in PDF format for free (or give what you want).
In the meantime here is a brief analysis of the lesson :
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Harmonized Scales Guitar Cheat Sheet
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-04-16
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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This page provides a free guitar cheat sheet with tab, score and chord shapes about the main types of scales harmonized in seventh chords :
Melodic Minor
Diatonic Major Scale
Natural Minor Scale
Harmonic Minor Scale
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Slash Chords For Guitar - Lesson With Charts And Diagrams
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-03-07
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Slash chords, distinguished by a chord followed by a forward slash and a bass note (e.g., C/G), are a powerful tool for enriching your guitar sound.
This guitar lesson for beginners unravels the mystery behind slash chords, revealing how they redefine familiar shapes and add a touch of sophistication to your chord progressions.
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Guitar Practice Routine - 10 Essential Tips
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-03-01
- In Guitar Practice Tips
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Learning jazz guitar requires a systematic and disciplined practice routine. Here's a comprehensive practice plan bringing together 10 essential points to help you develop your jazz guitar skills.
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Blue Bossa - Guitar Chord Study For Beginners - YouTube Short Video - Diagrams & Tabs
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-02-08
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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"Blue Bossa" is a jazz standard composed by trumpetist Kenny Dorham and one of the most popular Bossa Nova song.
The tune has since become a popular jazz standard, covered by numerous artists as Joe Henderson, Art Pepper, Dexter Gordon and many more.
This guitar lesson provides an easy chord study with tab / notation and YouTube short video to learn how to comp over it.
You'll find the related PDF transcription in the GUMROAD STORE.
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6 Types Of Extended & Altered Dominant 7 Chord Voicings For Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-02-03
- In Chords / Voicings
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In this short guitar lesson you will learn how to play 6 types of altered and extented dominant chords (7, 7b9, 9, 7b5, 7b5b9, 9b5) to expand your harmonic vocabulary.
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4 Examples of Using Diminished 7 Chords On Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-01-17
- In Chords / Voicings
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Diminished 7 chords bring a distinctive, mysterious sound to music. Widely used in jazz and classical genres, they infuse tension and creativity into your playing.
This guitar lesson explains how they are built and how to use them thanks to four easy examples.
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How To Mix Chords And Modes Of The Harmonic Minor Scale - Free PDF And YouTube Short Video
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-01-04
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The harmonic minor scale is a captivating and versatile scale used in various musical genres, known for its distinctive sound due to the raised seventh degree compared to the natural minor scale.
By understanding both chords derived from this scale and the modes within it, you can create compelling harmonic progressions and melodic lines.
Here's an introduction on how to combine chords and modes derived from the harmonic minor scale, including a free PDF (or give what you want) with Tab / standard notation.
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8 Steps to Learn Any Jazz Standard
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-01-03
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Guest Post By Jack Handyside at pickupmusic.com
Jazz standards are some of the most beautiful and interesting pieces of music ever written, but learning these complex songs and committing them to memory can feel overwhelming if you don’t know where to start.
Luckily for you, we’re here to help! This article will introduce you to a tried and true, eight-step method that you can use to learn any jazz standard. Our focus today will be on the classic jazz standard Autumn Leaves written by Joseph Kosma.
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9 Essential Guitar Scales For Beginners
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-01-01
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Jazz music, known for its improvisational nature and rich harmonic complexities, is a genre that heavily relies on scales for melodic expression and harmonic exploration. Understanding essential scales is a crucial step in comprehending its harmonic structure and developing improvisational skills.
Here's an overview of nine fundamental jazz scales ideal for beginners:
