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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Three Types Of Minor Blues Scales
- By Stef Ramin
- On 10/23/2018
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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The minor blues scale is mostly referred to as the minor pentatonic scale with a b5 thus giving the interval pattern 1 - b3 - 4 - b5 - 5 - b7. However, few musicians know that there are three types of minor blues scales depending on wether you incorporate the flat fifth (b5), the major third (3) or the major seventh (7) to the minor pentatonic scale. In this lesson you will learn how to build, play and recognize each of these three minor blues scales. -
Major and Major 6th Arpeggios with Chords - Guitar Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 10/21/2018
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Major 6 and minor 6 arpeggio shapes with chord diagrams.
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10 Most Popular Jazz Drummers Of All Time
- By Stef Ramin
- On 10/11/2018
- In Music Reviews
- 4 comments
There’s no doubt about it that if you want to be the best at anything, it pays to borrow a page or two from some of the most popular legends before your time. The swing feel is a fundamental aspect in jazz band music, and if you didn’t know, most of that fire in the rhythm comes from the drummers.
Yes, the other instrumentalists such as the pianist, trumpeter, and guitarist may get more attention, but we can’t overlook the importance of the drummer in jazz music. But back to the earlier mentioned idea, who would you look up to as an aspiring, learning, or practicing drummer in a jazz band? Perhaps you might just find your role model in this list, here are the 10 best jazz drummers of all time. Beginyourdrumming.com/ have compiled a list of their favourite Jazz drummers of all time.
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How To Play Triad Chords On Guitar - Lesson With Tabs & Shapes
- By Stef Ramin
- On 10/08/2018
- 8 comments
Triads are one of the first harmonic tools to study. They are very useful for comping and chordal enrichment. Learning close and open triad voicings increase your harmonic knowledge and at the same time help you discover your fretboard.In this lesson you will see the main triad chord shapes including root positions and inversions. You will also find some ideas on how to use triads over a II V I sequence, in order to create interesting melodic movement in your comping.
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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 Stef Ramin
- 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 essential jazz guitar books, 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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Tetrad Chords / Seventh Chords - Music Theory with Guitar Shapes
- By Stef Ramin
- On 09/11/2018
- 2 comments
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 are triads with an additional note, a major seventh or a minor seventh.
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.
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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.
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Dominant 7 Chord Altered Extensions - Guitar Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 05/01/2018
- In Infographics
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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).