Blog - Jazz Guitar Lessons
Welcome,
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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Master Major 7 Chords Across the Guitar Neck (Drop 2 & 3)
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2026-03-26
- In Chords / Voicings
In this lesson, we explore Drop 2 and Drop 3 voicings for major 7 chords—two essential tools for creating richer, more professional-sounding harmony on the guitar.
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New Mini Lesson – Take the “A” Train Jazz Guitar Solo Study (ML 13)
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2026-03-11
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
A new mini lesson has been added to the Jazz Guitar Licks website: Take the “A” Train – Jazz Guitar Solo Study (ML 13).
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12 Extended Major 7 Chord Voicings For Guitar
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2026-03-05
- In Chords / Voicings
Extended Major 7 chords add color, depth, and sophistication to your guitar playing. In this article, we’ll explore 12 extended Major 7 guitar chords that go beyond the basic shapes, introducing richer harmonies through added tones like the 9th and 13th.
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4 Levels of 2-5-1-6 Jazz Guitar Chords - PDF & Short Video
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2026-02-15
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
In this lesson, we’ll explore 4 Levels of 2–5–1–6 Jazz Guitar Chords.
Whether you're a developing player building your jazz foundation or an intermediate guitarist looking to expand your chord vocabulary, these four levels will give you a structured path to stronger, more musical comping.
This lesson comes with a PDF (Give What You Want).
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Transforming the Diminished Chord - Barry Harris System For Guitar
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2026-02-05
- In Chords / Voicings
Barry Harris explained that the fully diminished seventh chord sits at the center of the system.
By making simple chromatic adjustments to its notes, it naturally resolves into dominant, minor 6, or major 6 chords.
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Major Scale Arpeggios and Chords For Guitar
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2026-01-22
Here is a structured guitar lesson focused on harmonized major scale arpeggios and chords in the key of C.
It is designed for intermediate students but can be adapted up or down depending on technique and theory background.
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Mixolydian Dominant 7 Chord Tone Arpeggio Licks For Guitar
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2026-01-19
- In Scales & Arpeggios
This lesson focuses on understanding and applying the four chord tones of a dominant 7 chord (1–3–5–♭7) as arpeggios embedded within the Mixolydian mode.
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Chords Within Chords: Unlocking Hidden Harmony in Guitar
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2026-01-06
Guest Post by Dennis Winge
Most musicians learn chords as fixed units: a major triad is three notes, a seventh chord is four, an extended chord might be six or seven.
We tend to think of them as solid vertical structures, like blocks in a building. But here’s the secret: every extended chord is really a constellation of smaller chords.
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Rhythm Changes - Jazz Guitar Chord Study
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2025-12-19
- In Chords / Voicings
Rhythm changes are a cornerstone of the jazz repertoire, offering a compact yet harmonically rich framework for study and improvisation.
In this study, we focus on the A section, examining practical chord approaches that incorporate inversions and common substitutions.
The aim is to clarify the underlying harmony while expanding your comping vocabulary in a musical, idiomatic way.
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Harmonized Scales for Guitar: New PDF Guide to Master Chords, Arpeggios and Fretboard Harmony
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2025-12-10
Discover the New “Harmonized Scales for Guitar” PDF
A comprehensive PDF method for guitar players designed to bring clarity, structure, and practical power to your approach to scales and chords.
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Get All Jazz Guitar Licks Learning Material on Fourthwall: New Store Launch
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2025-11-22
All Jazz-Guitar-Licks.com PDF Lessons Are Now Available on Fourthwall!
If you’re a guitarist passionate about jazz, improvisation, and expanding your musical vocabulary, we have great news for you! All the PDF methods, exercises, and learning materials from Jazz-Guitar-Licks.com are now officially available on Fourthwall.
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Blues Patterns For Jazz Guitar - Exercise For Beginners
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2025-11-21
- In Licks & Transcriptions
In this lesson we explore three five-note blues patterns in B♭7 built from the tones 1 – ♭3 – 3 – 5 – ♭7.
The aim being to repeat the same pattern replacing the ♭7 with the 6 the second time.
These patterns capture the classic blues sound while giving you clear, repeatable shapes across the neck.
PDF (pay what you want) transcription with Tab / Notation available on GUMROAD.
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Exploring the Major Scale in 5ths - Guitar Lesson With Tab & YouTube Short
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2025-11-10
In this lesson, we’re going to take a fresh look at the major scale, but instead of running through it step by step, we’ll explore it in intervals of fifths.
This approach helps you break out of linear thinking on the fretboard and start hearing the scale in a more harmonic, open way.
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Diminished 7 Substitution For Dominant 7 Chord On Guitar
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2025-10-09
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
This lesson is about one of the most useful and colorful substitution concepts in jazz harmony, which is to replace an altered dominant 7 chord (7b9) with a diminished 7 chord.
You'll find here 4 easy exercises and a YouTube short for playing it on guitar.
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Minor 6 Arpeggios And Chords - Exercise For Guitar - PDF & YouTube Short
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2025-09-22
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
This lesson with FREE PDF and YouTube Short provides an exercise to practice minor 6 chords and arpeggios in a fun way.
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Diatonic Sixth Chords And 6add9 Arpeggios For Guitar
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2025-07-04
In this lesson, you will learn how to harmonize the major scale in sixth chords and 6add9 arpeggios to add a smooth, jazzy flavor to your playing.
Free PDF available here.
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Guitar Chord Dictionary
This PDF eBook provides over 550 guitar chord shapes. This is the perfect reference guide to understand how chords are built and how to play them on the guitar neck. -
Guitar Scale Dictionary
This E-book is a printable PDF method including over 700 scale diagrams and formula charts for guitarists. -
Harmonized Scales For Guitar
Complete guitar PDF on harmonized scales: major, minor, harmonic and melodic. Includes chord and arpeggio diagrams, charts and practical tabs. -
172 Arpeggio Shapes For Guitar
This printable PDF is a method dedicated to guitarists of all styles who want to learn build and play the most important types of arpeggios. -
126 Triad Chord Shapes
This handbook for guitar players is intended both for teachers and students. It includes 126 guitar shapes for mastering triads. -
Harmonic Major Scale Chords
this PDF offers diagrams and tabs for guitar to learn the chords of the harmonic major scale. -
Major Scale Harmonization
This package provides a printable PDF with exercises and audio files to learn how to harmonize the major scale with 3 note chords and their extensions. -
30 Minor Arpeggio Licks
This package includes a printable PDF method containing 30 exercises with tabs, staves and audio files for practicing minor arpeggios on guitar. -
II V I Bundle - 170 Exercises
This bundle contains 4 PDF methods for a total of 170 exercises with tabs, staves, analysis & audio files for practicing scales, arpeggios licks & chords over the 2-5-1 progression. -
Diatonic Licks Bundle
This package contains 120 jazz guitar lines based on diatonic modes as Mixolydian, Dorian and Ionian. PDF format with tabs, audio files and analysis. -
30 Groovy Jazz Guitar Licks
This downloadable package contains a PDF WITH audio files giving access to 30 groovy guitar phrases mixing jazz, blues and funky licks for beginners. -
30 Smooth Jazz Guitar Licks
In this package you'll get a printable PDF Method with tabs, notation, analysis, scale shapes and audio files for practicing 30 smooth jazz guitar licks. -
40 II V I Jazz Guitar Licks
This pdf method for guitar contains fourteen 2 5 1 jazz guitar lines with tab, standard notation, analysis, scale charts and audio files. -
50 II-V-I voicings
This printable PDF guitar method provides 50 exercises with audio files, analysis, tab and staves for learning major 2-5-1 chord voicings. -
40 Minor 2 5 1 Chord Voicings
This PDF method contains 40 exercices with tabs, scores and audio files for practicing jazz guitar chords over the minor 2 5 1 progression. -
40 Minor II V I Licks
This guitar method is a printable PDF with tabs, diagrams, theory and audio files providing 40 minor 2 5 1 jazz patterns. -
40 Mixolydian Jazz Guitar Licks
PDF guitar method with tabs, audio files and theory providing 40 dominant jazz guitar lines for teachers and students. -
40 Minor Jazz Guitar Licks
This printable guitar method in PDF format contains 40 easy minor jazz guitar lines based on the Dorian mode. -
40 Major Jazz Guitar Licks
Printable PDF eBook method containing 40 major jazz guitar licks with tab, standard notation and audio files for beginners and intermediates. -
Guitar Walking Bass Lines
This jazz guitar method about walking bass lines and chords is available as a PDF files containing 35 exercises with tabs, analysis and audio files -
101 Dominant Arpeggio Patterns
This printable PDF method provides 101 dominant arpeggio exercises with tab, theory and standard notation for the jazz, blues and rock guitarist. -
49 Essential Jazz Lines
This printable eBook method in PDF format provides 49 jazz solo transcriptions of the greatest jazz musicians. Tab, standard notation, audio files & analysis. -
11 Jazz Blues Studies
11 jazz blues chord studies with tabs, standard notation, analysis, and audio recordings and PDF. -
10 Easy Fingerstyle Blues
This PDF with Tabs and audio files provides 10 easy acoustic fingerstyle blues guitar studies for kids and beginners. -
25 Altered Jazz Guitar Lines
This PDF eBook method contains 25 altered jazz guitar licks with tabs, patterns, scale charts and audio files to master, apply and develop the altered scale. -
40 Blues Dominant Patterns
This printable method is available as a PDF file containing 40 easy dominant jazz-blues guitar lines with tabs, standard notation, analysis, audio files and scale charts. -
25 Pentatonic Licks
This jazz guitar method is an eBook available as a PDF with standard notation, guitar tabs, diagrams, analysis, audio files and backing tracks. You will find in this booklet 25 easy jazz guitar lines with theory using common and rare pentatonic scales. -
25 Soul Jazz Guitar Licks
You will find here an eBook available in PDF containing 25 soul jazz and hard bop guitar licks in the style of Grant Green, Melvin Sparks, George Benson. -
25 Diminished Patterns
This eBook PDF with audio files contains 25 dominant diminished jazz guitar patterns using the half-whole diminished scale and diminished 7th arpeggios. -
6 Tritone substitution licks
This Printable PDF eBook available for free download contains 6 easy jazz guitar licks with tabs/notation, youtube video link and analysis about the tritone substitution. -
10 Minor 7 Arpeggio Patterns
This printable PDF eBook offers 10 easy minor 7 arpeggio patterns with its related YouTube video for beginner guitarists. -
10 Easy Major 7 Arpeggio Licks
This is a printable PDF for beginner jazz guitar players providing 10 easy licks to practice major 7 arpeggios. -
10 Chord Melody Lines
Within this package, you'll discover a set of ten chord melody exercises for beginners. Printable PDFaudio files, a backing track, and a link to the associated YouTube video. -
10 Minor Blues Scale Licks
You'll find here a PDF with 10 easy jazz guitar licks to practice the minor blues scale on guitar.
