Blog - Jazz Guitar Lessons
Welcome to the blog of jazz-guitar-licks.com
This blog covers different topics 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
Teacher Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
Cheat Sheets, Methods, Posters, eBooks
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Major Scale In Thirds And Drop 3 Chords With Walking Bass Lines For Guitar - Lesson With Video and Free PDF
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-04-10
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Here is a new free guitar lesson showing how to play the major scale (C major) in thirds. This two-in-one exercise also includes an easy walking bass line built with drop 3 chords. The full transcription with tab/score is downloadable in a PDF format here in the Online Shop.
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Difference Between Dominant 7 and Major 7 Chords - Music Theory For Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-04-04
- In Chords / Voicings
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This theory lesson for guitarists covers one the most common question asked by beginner musicians : what's the difference between a dominant seventh and a major seventh chord.
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Django Reinhardt 2-5-1 Guitar Lick Transcriptions
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-03-29
- In Teacher Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Lesson By Diego Wasserman
In this video Diego show you 20 jazz guitar lines from Django's recordings played over minor and major 2 5 1 (II-V-I) progressions. He plays them at different tempos and provides a brief analysis showing the scales, motifs and arpeggios used. Two different positions for each lick are also proposed on the fretboard. The idea is to understand how Django Reinhardt approach the famous II V I progression.
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Three Note Arpeggios Built In Fourths On Guitar - Quartal Arpeggios Within The Major Scale - Lesson With YouTube Short Video and PDF
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-03-24
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Quartal harmony is the way of building chords with intervals of fourths instead of thirds, it's a nice way to modernize and enrich your jazz guitar playing. This post provides an easy exercise for a first approach of quartal playing that is to arpeggiate three-note chords built in fourths, starting on each step of a major scale.
As is the case in many lessons on the website, you'll find a short YouTube video and the link to download the PDF for free, a little further in this article.
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Minor Ninth Arpeggio Workout - Guitar Exercise With TAB / PDF / VIDEO
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-02-28
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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This exercise is the third of the serie covering ninth arpeggio practice around the cycle of fourths on guitar. While the previous two lessons dealt with major ninth and dominant ninth arpeggios, this one is about minor ninth arpeggios. As usual you'll find the related PDF transcription for free, here in the GUMROAD STORE.
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Hexatonic Scales For Guitar - Blues, Augmented, Whole Tone, Tritone and Prometheus Scales - Theory and Diagrams
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-02-25
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Hexatonic scales are made of six notes, even if you can get them from any pentatonic scale (by adding one note) or diatonic scale (by removing one note), the most popular are the blues scales (major, minor), the augmented scale, the whole-tone scale, the tritone scale and the Prometheus scale.
This guitar lesson with formula charts and diagrams covers them in details and will you help to better figure them out.
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Blue Bossa - Guitar Arrangment For Beginners - Latin Jazz Lesson
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-02-15
- In Teacher Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Lesson By Thomas Berglund
This video lesson is an easy chord/melody guitar arrangement of Blue Bossa, a very popular instrumental latin jazz tune composed by Kenny Dorham. The video includes a lesson where Thomas shows and discusses the arrangement and also provides tips to make your own arrangements.
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Major Lick Harmonized and Transposed - Jazz Guitar Lesson With Free PDF / Tabs
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-02-10
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This blog post provides a guitar lesson implying a basic jazz line, built with notes from the Ionian mode (major scale), harmonized and transposed in halftone steps. Once again you'll find the free PDF of the lesson transcribed in tab / standard notation in the GUMROAD SHOP and also the related Youtube short video at the bottom.
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Dominant 9th Arpeggios and Cycle Of Fourths
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-02-03
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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This short guitar tutorial is about to play a 2-bar line built from a dominant ninth arpeggio pattern around the cycle of fourths. This lesson comes with a short video available on Jazz Guitar Licks social networks as Youtube, Facebook or Instagram (link at the top of this website). You can also get the free PDF tab in the GUMROAD shop.
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Rhythm and Picking Arpeggio Exercise For Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-01-30
- In Teacher Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Lesson by George Nazos
In this short video lesson with tab, George proposes a guitar lick/exercise in rhythm and picking. He shows how to use different subdivisions in arpeggios following a 2 5 1 6 chord progression while using substitution for the dominant arpeggios from the altered scale.
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Major 9 Arpeggios and Cycle Of Fourths - Free PDF Lesson With Tabs
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-01-07
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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A new free lesson is available for download (or Give What You Want) in Jazz Guitar Lick's GUMROAD store. It's a 24-bar study involving the same major 9th arpeggio pattern following the cycle of fourths. This exercise is a good way to warm-up, untie the fingers and develop the musical ear.
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Jazz Swing Backing Track - 1 6 2 5 Chord Progression In Eb - YouTube Video
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-12-30
- In Backing Tracks For Guitar
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This is a jazz swing backing track (140 BPM) for practicing scales, arpeggios and improvisation with your favorite instrument over a 1 6 2 5 chord progression in Eb. This jamming track is provided by Backing Tracks Channel, it implies four chords that are Ebmaj7 | Cmin7 | Fmin7 | Bb7.
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Two Easy 2 5 1 Jazz Guitar Licks in F Major - Tab and YouTube Short Videos
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-12-25
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Here are two easy jazz guitar licks published on JGL's Facebook, Youtube and Instagram pages, based on a 2 5 1 sequence in F major (Gm7 | C7 | Fmaj7) implying two arpeggios and a minor triad.
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Guitar Chord Construction and Connection - Cheat Sheets With Shapes and Intervals
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-12-12
- In Chords / Voicings
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This page provides a collection of cheat sheets explaining in a simple and effective way how guitar chords are built and how they are connected one to the other. The idea is to understand where are located each chord tone of a specific voicing and how to connect these chords them by moving only one note at a time. Notice that this page is regularly updated with new shapes, don't forget to subscribe the newsletter to stay informed.
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Jazz Guitar Lines Over Classic Jazz Chord Sequences - PDF, Video, Tab and Chord Shapes (part 3)
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-11-19
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This lesson is the third part of the serie "Jazz Guitar Lines Over Common Chord Changes" that provides easy jazz guitar licks for beginners to play over II V, II V I and I IV II V progressions. These lines are majoritarily built with the major blues scale, the Mixolydian mode and a whole-tone scale motif.
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Arpeggios Over II V I and I VI II V Chord Changes - Guitar Lesson With PDF, Shapes and Video (part 2)
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-11-13
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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In this guitar lesson with shapes, tab, video and analysis you will learn how to use seventh arpeggios over important jazz chord sequences as minor & major II V , major II V I and I vi ii V progressions. You'll find the link to the PDF at the bottom of the page.
