Blog - Jazz Guitar Lessons
Welcome to the blog of jazz-guitar-licks.com,
This blog covers different subjects and contains several useful lessons both for beginners, intermediates 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.
You will find here tutorials grouped into several distinct categories:
►Jazz Guitar Licks and Transcriptions.
►Cheat Sheets, Methods, Posters, eBooks.
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Guitar Chord Construction - Theory And Basic Shapes - Essential Guide
- By Stef Ramin
- On 01/18/2020
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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This lesson explains how chords are built and how to play them on guitar using common positions. This will help you understand, identify, build and play one of the most important types of chords.
All the shapes proposed in this tutorial are movable and playable anywhere on the fretboard. So, try to play them in all twelve keys.
To simplify learning, the voicings used in this course ensure that the root is always the lowest note, either on the sixth, fifth or fourth string. In other words, there are no chords with third, fifth, seventh or any other note in the bass.
Don't hesitate to create your own chord positions. In the meantime, take a look at the following essential chord shapes proposed below, classified into four distinct categories :
- TRIADS
- (major, minor, augmented, diminished, sus4 and sus2).
- SEVENTH CHORDS (aka tetrads)
- (maj7, min7, dom7, m7b5, dim7, minMaj7, maj7#5, 7b5, 7#5).
- SIXTH CHORDS
- (maj6, min6).
- EXTENDED CHORDS
- (min9, maj9, 9, 6/9, 7#9, 7b9, m11, maj11, 11, m13, maj13, 13, 7b13)
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Chord / Scale Relationships - Guitar Charts Cheat Sheet
- By Stef Ramin
- On 01/14/2020
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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These guitar cheat sheets show the relation between common modes and chord shapes.
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What Is The Minor II-V-I Progression - What Scales And Chords To Play Over It
- By Stef Ramin
- On 01/02/2020
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The minor II-V-I sequence is equivalent to the major II-V-I sequence, but played in minor harmonic key. It is a must know for any guitarist who wants to learn to solo over tunes in minor keys.
You will find minor II V I progressions in many jazz tunes as Autumn leaves, Blue Bossa, Black Orpheus, Stella by Starlight, The nearness of you, I love you, Speak low, Soul eyes, Valse Hot, Along came Betty, Stablemates, Are you real, I'll remember April, I hear a rhapsody, In your own sweet way, Nuages and many more.
This guitar lesson for beginners explains what is the minor 2 5 1 progression, what scales and what chords you can use over it.
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Educational Guitar Chords and Scales Posters - Essential Charts, Shapes and Diagrams
- By Stef Ramin
- On 01/01/2020
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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Two new educational guitar posters are now availbale at Teespring.com. The first one contains 18 essential scale shapes used by guitarists. The second poster provides 63 common jazz guitar chord diagrams. They are both available in giant size, 24 x 60 inches 90 x 60 cm.
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Guitar Intervals - Infographic With Shapes
- By Stef Ramin
- On 12/26/2019
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This infographic chart show how look simple and compound intervals on the guitar neck. Click on the right mouse button and choose "save target as."
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Intervals on Guitar - How They Look On The Neck - Shapes and Theory
- By Stef Ramin
- On 12/23/2019
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Whether simple or compound intervals are a very important part of music theory. Knowing them allow understand how scales, arpeggios and chords are built. Intervals are useful tools to visualize the notes and understand their relationships on the guitar fretboard. This lesson with downloadable pdf, guitar shapes and theory will help you better figure them out and play them on guitar.
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Harmonization of the Harmonic Minor Scale - Guitar Shapes & Theory
- By Stef Ramin
- On 12/15/2019
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This lesson dedicated to the harmonic minor scale explains how to build drop 2 and drop 3 seventh chords from it. This action which consists in stacking notes in interval of thirds starting on each tone of a scale is commonly called "harmonization".
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Wave (A.C Jobim) Guitar Chord Melody Transcription With Tabs
- By Stef Ramin
- On 12/12/2019
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This lesson provides an easy chord melody arrangement for guitar with tablature, standard notation and chord shapes of the bossa nova latin jazz tune "Wave" by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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John Scofield Solo Transcriptions - 10 Licks
- By Stef Ramin
- On 11/27/2019
- In Licks & Transcriptions
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A new lesson (with YouTube video, analysis and tabs) intended for all jazz, blues, groove enthusiasts and John Scofield fans is now available for free on the website. It contains 10 John Scofield jazz guitar licks transcribed from one of his solo in the tune "Little Walter Rides Again" live at live at Estival Jazz Lugano 2007 with MMW trio (John Medeski, Billy Martin and Chris Wood). They show how Sco used to mix pentatonic scales, blue notes and altered tones.
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Jazz Blues Backing Tracks, Play-alongs, Jam Tracks
- By Stef Ramin
- On 11/19/2019
- In Uncategorized
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You will find here 11 Jazz Blues backing tracks from the YouTube channel Backing Tracks Channel. These jam tracks can be very useful for practicing improvisation and chord comping whether on the guitar or on any other instrument.
Each play along is derived from the basic jazz blues chord progression (the first one of the list). For a better understanding the chords and the Roman numeral analysis are displayed in the video. If you want to learn more about these jazz blues changes check out the related lesson in the blog section.
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Diatonic Arpeggios and Scales - Guitar Chart Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 11/10/2019
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This infographic printable for free provides diatonic arpeggio and scale shapes for guitar practice. It shows the relationship between arpeggios and modes of the major scale.
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Guitar Arpeggios Guide For Beginners - CAGED Charts and Theory
- By Stef Ramin
- On 11/02/2019
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Arpeggios are the backbone of jazz improvisations, they are easy to learn and play. They are very popular in all styles of music (rock, metal, blues, pop) because they allow to easily outline the harmony and create fluid lines.
It is very important to understand what are arpeggios and how to use them into your jazz guitar solos. This guitar lesson provides the most important arpeggio shapes that any beginner jazz guitarist must know.
In the first part, they are classified into seven qualities : major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, half-diminished, diminished 7, Major 7#5 and minMaj7 using the CAGED system, one of the best methods for learning scales and chords on the whole of guitar neck.
The second part of the lesson shows the arpeggios within the main families of scales namely, major (diatonic), harmonic minor, melodic minor and harmonic major.
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Printable PDF Guitar Method - 40 Minor Licks With Tab and Audio Files
- By Stef Ramin
- On 10/26/2019
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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A new printable PDF method is available for download. It contains 40 Dorian jazz guitar patterns with tab, standard notation, audio files, theory and numeral analysis. The licks are suitable for beginners, they are built from the Dorian mode and designed to be played over minor chords. Many theoretical concepts are discussed (arpeggios, diatonic substitution, triad pairs, passing tones, etc)Package Details
- 1 Printable PDF file (High resolution).
- 40 Mp3 audio files (High quality).
- 1 Jazz Backing Track.
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10 II V I Jazz Guitar Licks For Beginners
- By Stef Ramin
- On 10/25/2019
- In Licks & Transcriptions
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The II-V-I sequence is the most common chord progression played in jazz music and a must know for any guitarist who wants to learn jazz language.The II, the V and the I (chords and scales) are constructed based on the corresponding second (II), fifth (V) and first (I) step of the major scale.
In this guitar lesson you will learn what's the 2 5 1 progression and how to play easy jazz lines over a 2-5-1 using the most common scales found in jazz music.
