Blog - Jazz Guitar Lessons
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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
►Creator Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
►Cheat Sheets, Methods, Posters, eBooks
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Chord Connections - 3 Exercises For Guitar - PDF Cheat Sheet
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-09-20
- In Chords / Voicings
- 0 comments
Here is a cheat sheet containing three easy exercises for connecting basic guitar chord shapes as min7, maj7, dim7, m7b5, 7sus, 9th, 7#9, 7b9, min6, 6. It is available for free (or Pay What You Want) in Jazz Guitar Licks Gumroad Shop.
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Drop 3 Chord Construction - Music Theory - Free Printable PDF
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-09-09
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
- 0 comments
This music theory cheat sheet file explains effectively how drop 3 chords are built. You can download the printable PDF file (better quality) for free (or make a donation to support this website) following this link.
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Pentatonic Scales Over 2 5 1
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-09-03
- In Creator Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
- 0 comments
Lesson by Joost Zoeteman
This video lesson is taken from JGL's facebook group "Jazz Guitar Lessons". Guitarist Joost Zoeteman explains how different types of pentatonic scales can be applied to a 2 5 1 chord progression.
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How Drop 2 Chords Are Built - Music Theory Cheat Sheet
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-08-29
- 0 comments
Drop 2 chords are built by dropping the second highest note of a close chord down an octave, thus giving four supplementary ways of playing a seventh chord (min7, maj7, dom7, m7b5, dim7, aug7, augMaj7).
This free music theory cheat sheet will help you understand how these drop 2 voicings are built. You can easily get it for free (or name a fair price) in PDF format on GUMROAD.
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Warm-up Exercise #2 - Dominant 7th Arpeggios
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-08-16
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This lesson is about a good warm-up exercise for guitarist implying a short pattern (4 beats) made of dominant seventh arpeggios separated by a tritone (3 whole tones = augmented fourth). This pattern is repeated following a descending chromatic movement.
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Warm-up Exercise For Guitar - Seventh Arpeggios
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-08-11
- 3 comments
This warm-up exercise for guitar is to repeat a melodic line following the cycle of fourths. This line is made of two bars containing a major seventh arpeggio (1 - 3 - 5 - 7) and two half-diminished arpeggios (1 - b3 - b5 - b7).
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The Circle of Fifths - Music Theory
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-07-22
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The circle of fifths is the way the 12 musical notes of the chromatic scale are arranged following a sequence of perfect fifths (7 semitones). It helps visualizing relationships between notes and better understanding diatonic harmony.
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Modes of The Major Scale - Music Theory
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-07-18
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
- 0 comments
This cheat sheet show how the modes of the major scale are built and what is the relation between them.
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Chord Formulas - Reference Chart
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-07-08
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Armando's Rumba - Guitar Chords
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-07-07
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This lesson provides a chord study with tab of the Latin jazz tune Armando's rumba by Chick Corea based on the Latin Real Book version in C minor. Here below you'll find guitar tabs corresponding to the four main parts of the tune (A-B-C-D).
The chords used in this arrangement are mostly seventh chords as min7, maj7, dim7 and dom7 (drop 2, drop 3 and rootless voicings) including basic triads (min, aug) and altered dominant chords (7#9, 7b13).
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Triad Chords For Guitar On YouTube and PDF
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-07-04
- 0 comments
A new tutorial has been published on Jazz Guitar Licks YouTube channel. It is shows how to play the main triads on guitar using neck diagram shapes. The triad discussed are : minor, major, diminished, augmented and suspended 2 & 4, don't hesitate to like, comment and share this video.
For those who'd like to get the printable PDF version and get more triad voicing shapes (open and close), there is a new method available since a few days, just click on the picture below to get it.
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Guitar Arpeggios - Quick Starter Guide With Charts and Shapes
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-06-25
- In Scales & Arpeggios
- 1 comments
Arpeggios are the backbone of jazz improvisation, they are simple to learn, they allow to easily outline the harmony and create fluid lines. Arpeggios are very popular in all styles of music (rock, metal, blues, pop), that's why it is very important to learn them.
This guitar lesson provides the most important arpeggio shapes that any beginner jazz guitarist must know, classified this way :
major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, half-diminished, diminished 7, Major 7#5 and minMaj7.
You'll find in this tutorial three kinds of guitar diagrams for each arpeggio type :
one-octave shapes (notes within the space of one octave), two-octave shapes (notes within two octaves) and CAGED shapes.
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Pat Martino Guitar Lesson - 10 Licks With Tab and Analysis
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-05-02
- In Licks & Transcriptions
- 0 comments
A brand new video is now available on JGL's YouTube channel. It's about 10 Pat Martino lines taken from the jazz blues tune "Cisco". You can watch / hear the video below and maybe check out the full tutorial in the "solo transcriptions" section of this website.
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Suspended Chords - Guitar Lesson With Charts and Theory
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-04-17
- In Chords / Voicings
- 0 comments
Suspended chords are chords derived from triads and tetrads, the third is replaced with a fourth (most of the time) or a second, making them chords that are neither major nor minor. This lesson with charts, tabs and shapes explains how suspended chords are built and how to play them on guitar.
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Notes on Guitar - Fretboard Diagrams
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-03-30
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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Learning the name of the notes and be able to find them out on the fretboard is very important when you want to explore scales, chords and arpeggios on guitar. Knowing the notes on the guitar neck is obviously useful for a better understanding of music theory and sight reading, it will also help you communicate better with other musicians.
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Superimposing Arpeggios - Guitar Lesson
- By Stef Ramin
- On 2021-03-25
- In Creator Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
- 0 comments
Lesson by George Dafnos
Here are somme ideas inspired by great jazz guitarists as Wes Montgomery ,George Benson on how to superimpose almost all the chord family degrees. This concept helps mapping the arpeggio combinations and listen different coloursounds above root ,subdominant or dominant families. After mastering all these, be sure to try making your own jazz lines and licks.