Posts by jazz-guitar-licks

In this lesson, we explore Drop 2 and Drop 3 voicings for major 7 chords—two essential tools for creating richer, more professional-sounding harmony on the guitar.

A new mini lesson has been added to the Jazz Guitar Licks website: Take the “A” Train – Jazz Guitar Solo Study (ML 13).

Extended Major 7 chords add color, depth, and sophistication to your guitar playing. In this article, we’ll explore 12 extended Major 7 guitar chords that go beyond the basic shapes, introducing richer harmonies through added tones like the 9th and 13th.

In this lesson, we’ll explore 4 Levels of 2–5–1–6 Jazz Guitar Chords.

Whether you're a developing player building your jazz foundation or an intermediate guitarist looking to expand your chord vocabulary, these four levels will give you a structured path to stronger, more musical comping.

This lesson comes with a PDF (Give What You Want).

Barry Harris explained that the fully diminished seventh chord sits at the center of the system.

By making simple chromatic adjustments to its notes, it naturally resolves into dominant, minor 6, or major 6 chords.

Here is a structured guitar lesson focused on harmonized major scale arpeggios and chords in the key of C.

It is designed for intermediate students but can be adapted up or down depending on technique and theory background.

This lesson focuses on understanding and applying the four chord tones of a dominant 7 chord (1–3–5–♭7) as arpeggios embedded within the Mixolydian mode.

Guest Post by Dennis Winge

Most musicians learn chords as fixed units: a major triad is three notes, a seventh chord is four, an extended chord might be six or seven.

We tend to think of them as solid vertical structures, like blocks in a building. But here’s the secret: every extended chord is really a constellation of smaller chords.

Rhythm changes are a cornerstone of the jazz repertoire, offering a compact yet harmonically rich framework for study and improvisation.

In this study, we focus on the A section, examining practical chord approaches that incorporate inversions and common substitutions.

The aim is to clarify the underlying harmony while expanding your comping vocabulary in a musical, idiomatic way.

Discover the New “Harmonized Scales for Guitar” PDF

A comprehensive PDF method for guitar players designed to bring clarity, structure, and practical power to your approach to scales and chords. 

All Jazz-Guitar-Licks.com PDF Lessons Are Now Available on Fourthwall!

If you’re a guitarist passionate about jazz, improvisation, and expanding your musical vocabulary, we have great news for you! All the PDF methods, exercises, and learning materials from Jazz-Guitar-Licks.com are now officially available on Fourthwall.

In this lesson we explore three five-note blues patterns in B♭7 built from the tones 1 – ♭3 – 3 – 5 – ♭7.

The aim being to repeat the same pattern replacing the ♭7 with the 6 the second time.

These patterns capture the classic blues sound while giving you clear, repeatable shapes across the neck.

PDF (pay what you want) transcription with Tab / Notation available on GUMROAD.

In this lesson, we’re going to take a fresh look at the major scale, but instead of running through it step by step, we’ll explore it in intervals of fifths.

This approach helps you break out of linear thinking on the fretboard and start hearing the scale in a more harmonic, open way.

This lesson is about one of the most useful and colorful substitution concepts in jazz harmony, which is to replace an altered dominant 7 chord (7b9) with a diminished 7 chord.

You'll find here 4 easy exercises and a YouTube short for playing it on guitar.

In this lesson, you will learn how to harmonize the major scale in sixth chords and 6add9 arpeggios to add a smooth, jazzy flavor to your playing.

Free PDF available here.