Blog - Jazz Guitar Lessons
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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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Essential Dominant Scales For Guitar - Shapes And Short Video
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-12-09
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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In this session, we'll cover 6 essential dominant scales that every guitarist should know.
These scales are the foundation for creating solos in blues, jazz, and rock styles
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Reharmonizing Christmas Carols using Giant Steps chord changes
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-12-06
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Guest Post By Dennis Winge
Coltrane changes are fun to play on.
If you're intimidated by Giant Steps, it could simply be the tempo of the tune.
Just because Trane's version is fast doesn't mean you can't enjoy using the changes at slower tempos, in smaller increments, and on generally easier tunes.
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Difference Between Dominant 7 Chord And Diminished 7 Chord - Free PDF and YouTube Short
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-11-25
- In Chords / Voicings
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Major Scale Shapes And Basic Major Seventh Chords
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-11-15
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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In this guitar lesson for beginners, we'll explore how major scale shapes relate to basic major seventh (Maj7) chords.
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Diatonic Arpeggios - Guitar Exercise With Tab And YouTube Short
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-10-29
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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In this guitar lesson with tab and YouTube short we’re diving into diatonic arpeggios, focusing on playing them in a fixed position.
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2 5 1 Jazz Guitar Lick With Tab And YouTube Short - Dorian Mode, Altered Scale, Major 7 Arpeggio
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-10-23
- In Licks & Transcriptions
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Welcome to this lesson on a classic jazz guitar lick that navigates through a 2-5-1 progression in C using some essential jazz concepts.
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Blues Monk Guitar Lesson - Chord Melody - Short Vidéo And PDF Transcription
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-10-08
- In Jazz Standards
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Here is a guitar study in chord melody of the theme of "Blue Monk" by Thelonious Monk.
The main theme of "Blue Monk" is a simple yet soulful 12-bar blues in Bb.
You can watch the YouTube Short video and download the PDF transcription with tab.
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Chords Of The Major, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor And Natural Minor Scales - Free Guitar Sheet Cheat
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-10-07
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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Here below you'll find a free guitar cheat sheet to learn the chords of the main types of scales that are :
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Melodic Minor
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Major
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Natural Minor
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Harmonic Minor
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Arpeggios And Chords Of The Major Scale For Guitar - Free PDF
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-09-23
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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Here’s a breakdown of seventh arpeggios and their related chords based on the major scale for guitar.
An arpeggio is essentially the notes of a chord played individually.
Seventh arpeggios add a fourth note (the seventh) to each triad, giving a more complex and richer sound.
In this guitar lesson, we'll be focusing on the arpeggios of the seventh chords derived from the G major scale.
You'll find the free PDF (or name a fair price) here in the GUMROAD Store.
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Extended Shell Voicings For Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-09-06
- 2 comments
Harmonizing the major scale using 3-note chords, also known as shell voicings, is a fundamental technique used in jazz and contemporary music.
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Major 9 Arpeggio Guitar Lick With Chromatic Passing Tones / Free PDF
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-07-31
- 2 comments
This lesson with free PDF (or give what you want) proposes an easy jazz guitar lick built with an A major 9 arpeggio A (1), C# (3), E (5), G# (7), B (9) including two passing tones Bb (b2 / b9) and G (b7).
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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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Guitar Scale Dictionary
This E-book is a printable PDF method including over 700 scale diagrams and formula charts for guitarists. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 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 Lick
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.