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 Lessons, Licks and Transcriptions, Scales and Arpeggios, Chords, Jazz Standards, Music Theory, Guitar Practice Tips, Guitar Gear Reviews, Music Production, Music Reviews, Uncategorized, Guest Posts) as shown in the menu on the right.
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What are Dominant Seventh Chords ?
- By Stef Ramin
- On 09/29/2018
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Dominant seventh chords are the most important features in music, you can find them in many styles of music, especially in blues and, of course, in jazz. In this lesson, you will see how to construct drop 2, drop 3 and drop 2 & 4 dominant seventh chords, what is their harmonic function and how to play them on guitar.
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Tetrad Chords Infographic - Drop 2, Drop 3 and Drop 2-4 Voicings
- By Stef Ramin
- On 09/24/2018
- In Infographics
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This guitar infographic enables to learn in a fun way the five main most important chord types found in music thru three kinds of voicings : Drop 2, Drop 3 and Drop 2-4.
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Jazz up Your Blues - Guitar Lesson
- By Leigh-Fuze
- On 09/22/2018
- In Guest Posts
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One of the most daunting shifts for any guitarist can be entering the world of jazz guitar. We’ve all read jazz tutorials and watched videos by those in the know and it’s a vast world full of new theoretical and practical concepts.
Most guitar players get into playing through rock/blues and find jazz later on their ability spectrum. If you understand blues, you can start to make some small changes which will add a jazz dynamic to your playing. In this lesson we will cover some of those small changes you can integrate into your playing today. -
Drop 2 & 4 Chords - Advanced Guitar Voicings
- By Stef Ramin
- On 09/14/2018
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What Are Drop 2-4 Chords?Drop 2 and 4 chords are created by dropping down an octave the second and fourth note of a seventh chord in close position. They can be very important tools for composition and arrangement. This lesson with diagrams provides useful explanations on how to build and play drop 2 & 4 chords on guitar.
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What's a Tetrad Chord - Music Theory with Guitar Chord Shapes
- By Stef Ramin
- On 09/11/2018
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What's a Tetrad ?A basic chord is built with three notes this is what we call "triad chords" or "triads". Tetrad chords aka "four note-chords" are simply chords containing four notes, “tetra“ is a Greek root meaning four. This means that tetrads have an additional note, a major seventh or a minor seventh. In other words , a tetrad is a triad with a supplementary note. This article will enlighten you on how these tetrad chords are built and how they can be classified.
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Arpeggio Practice - Seventh Chords - 4 Essential Exercises
- By Stef Ramin
- On 09/09/2018
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Arpeggios are essential musical tools that allow you to build pure and beautiful lines while highlighting the harmony. When playing over chord changes, using arpeggios is the most efficient way to connect these chords together. This lesson provides four arpeggio exercises with tabs, standard notation and diagrams that will help improve your guitar skills and your theoretical knowledge. -
Modes of the Major Scale and Related Chords - Guitar Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 07/24/2018
- In Infographics
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This infographic provide guitar shapes that will help you to make the link between the seven modes of the major scale and their related drop 2 and drop 3 chords.
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List and Comparison of Music Scales - Formula Charts
- By Stef Ramin
- On 06/25/2018
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Here is a list of the main musical scales and modes. -
49 Licks of Legendary Jazz Musicians for Guitar - Lessons in PDF with TABS and analysis
- By Stef Ramin
- On 06/04/2018
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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49 Essential Jazz Guitar Licks With Tabs and AnalysisSecure payment by Gumroad / paypal
Practicing jazz guitar licks is a very important aspect of jazz learning. Particularly when these licks are transcribed from improvisations of the greatest jazz musicians of all times (Cannonball Adderley, Barney Kessel, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Christian, Emily Remler, George Benson, Grant Green, Herb Ellis, Jim Hall, Jimmy Raney, Joe Pass, John Scofield, Kenny Burrell, Charlie Parker, Mike Stern and Wes Montgomery) who helped forge the history of jazz music.
This eBook available for download in a PDF format contains 49 effective jazz guitar phrases and patterns with TABS and notation applied to common jazz chord progressions . These patterns both for guitar teachers and students cover different styles from swing to blues, to hard-bop to bebop.
These essential jazz lines arranged for jazz guitarists from beginner to advanced come with easy-to-understand explanations of one of the greatest players improvisational techniques.
Learning these jazz transcriptions make it possible to understand the approach of the great names of jazz to different chord progressions found in many standards as turnarounds, minor and major II-V-I, blues progressions, modal playing.
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Target Tones and Enclosures - 58 Guitar Patterns
- By Stef Ramin
- On 05/20/2018
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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This guitar lesson is about a very important concept used by many jazz improvisers named "Target notes" or "target tones" or "approach notes". It has to do with targeting chord tones by scale or chromatically. This technique opens the door to another essential type of targeting called "Enclosures" used to surround a chord tone both diatonically and chromatically from above and below. Understanding and applying "Targeting" will help you solos sound more jazzy and allow you to expand your harmonic knowledge. -
Dominant 7 Chord Altered Extensions - Guitar Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 05/01/2018
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Dominant 7 Chord Altered Extensions - Guitar Infographic
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Drop 2 Guitar Chord Shapes - Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 04/29/2018
- In Infographics
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This infographic with guitar freatboard diagrams show how to play all five types of drop 2 chords on the first set of strings (E, B, G and D strings).
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Harmonized Major Scale For Guitarists With Shapes
- By Stef Ramin
- On 04/27/2018
- In Infographics
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This infographic with three neck diagrams is a useful reminder for beginner guitarists and composers. It shows how to build a drop 2 seventh chord from each note of the major scale.
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Voice Leading For Guitar - Basic Chords
- By Stef Ramin
- On 04/24/2018
- In Chords
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What is Voice Leading in Music?"Voice leading" is a term that refers to the smooth progression of each voice of a chord. This technique consist to move individually one or several voices up or down by a step from one chord to the next. Voice leading is very used by composers and improvisers in order to connect chords instead of bouncing them around. The aim of this lesson is to connect or voice-lead basic four-note chords by moving only one voice. This technique is very fun and should help you learn some of the most important chords used in jazz guitar.
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GuitarSim - App & Smartphone Accessory For Guitarists
- By GuitarSim
- On 04/19/2018
- In Guitar Gear Reviews
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GuitarSim is the smartphone accessory that turns your phone into a mini digital guitar with tons of features. It’s not just your average guitar; Guitarsim leverages your phone to give you a powerful and portable gadget to jam with, and its foldable so you can throw it into your bag without hassle.
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Guitar Arpeggio Shapes Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 04/18/2018
- In Infographics
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This guitar infographic takes the main arpeggio shapes namely ,minor 7, major 7, dominant 7, half-diminished and diminished 7.
