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• Major II V I Progression With Guitar Chord Shapes - Infographics

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 08/12/2019
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• 36 Ways of Playing a Dominant 7 Chord on Guitar - Beginner to Advanced

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 07/30/2019
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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 voicings and shapes.

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• 15 Easy Jazz Guitar Chords For Beginners - Infographic

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 07/28/2019
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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 Stef Ramin
  • On 07/26/2019
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  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 Stef Ramin
  • On 07/12/2019
  • 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. However, we will see in this article that there are many other options.

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• 5 Easy Jazz Blues Arpeggio Studies For Guitar

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 06/26/2019
  • In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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  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). 

  Bb7	Eb7	Bb7	%
  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 Stef Ramin
  • On 06/25/2019
  • In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods & Books
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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).

   

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• Joe Pass Blues - Transcription with Video and Analysis

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 06/07/2019
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  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 Stef Ramin
  • On 06/01/2019
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  What are Pentatonic Scales?

  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.

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• 12 Types of Major Scales - Guitar Lesson With Diagrams

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 04/16/2019
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  When we think about major scales, the first that comes to mind is the Ionian mode, best know as THE major scale. However, there are several other types of major scales (Ionian #5, Lydian augmented #2, Ionian b6) which deserve a little more attention. Here they are listed with guitar shapes and formulas. 

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• II V7 Bebop Patterns - David Baker - Analysis and Scale Diagrams

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 03/21/2019
  • In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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  This blog article is related to the video tutorial published on JGL YouTube channel. It contains 10 II V7 jazz bebop guitar patterns with analysis and scale shapes. These lines come from the first chapter of David Baker's book "How To Play Bebop Vol.2 - Learning the bebop language". They correspond to the first ten exercises of the section named "The Use of The II V7 Progression in Bebop".

  You 'll find in this lesson a quick analysis of each pattern with scale diagrams (Dorian, Dorian bebop, Mixolydian, dominant bebop, Mixolydian b13, altered, mixo-blues and half-whole diminished).

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• What's a Dominant 7 Arpeggio - How to Play it on Guitar

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 03/05/2019
  • In Scales & Arpeggios
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  What Are Dominant 7 Arpeggios?

  Dominant 7 arpeggios are built with root (1), major third (3), perfect fifth (5) and minor seventh (b7). They are basically used to play over dominant 7 chords.

  Dominant 7 Arpeggio	1	3	5	b7
  G7	G	B	D	F

   

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• Solar - Miles Davis - Guitar Chord Melody Lesson and Analysis

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 03/04/2019
  • In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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  "Solar" is a jazz standard written by Miles Davis  in the key of C minor with four tonal centers that are  : C minor, F major, Eb major and Db major. Solar contains essential chord progressions as major and minor II V I. This lesson provides a short harmonic analysis and a chord melody arrangement for guitar with tab, standard notation, chord shapes and audio file.

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• Major 7 Arpeggio - Free Guitar Cheat Sheets

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 02/15/2019
  • In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods & Books
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  You will find here a free cheet sheat about major 7 arpeggios. This quick guitar lesson provides a brief description of major 7 arpeggios including neck diagrams and formula charts. This document is available in three versions : PDF (for printing), JPEG and PNG for on-line publication.

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• 6 Guitar Licks with Tab and Notation - Tritone Substitution

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 02/09/2019
  • In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods & Books
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  This free printable PDF files contains 6 easy guitar licks with tab, standard notation and anlysis for a better understanding of the tritone substitution.

  tritone-substitution-licks-free-pdf-guitar-book-1.pdf (994.69 Ko)

• How to Use a Tritone Substitution - 6 Guitar Licks

  • By Stef Ramin
  • On 02/08/2019
  • In Licks & Transcriptions
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  What's a Tritone Substitution?

  The tritone substitution is one of the most common substitution found in jazz. The basic application of a tritone chord substitution is to take any 7th chord and play another 7th chord that has its root a tritone away from the original. This guitar lesson demonstrates how you can play scales and arpeggios starting from the b5 (a tritone away) of the V7 chord in a II V I chord progression. This way you will highlight altered tones as the b9 and the #11. 

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