Posts by jazz-guitar-licks
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Miles Davis Lines Transcribed For Guitar on YouTube
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-10-14
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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A new video is available on the YouTube channel. It contains 10 easy Miles Davis lines with analysis, audio files, standard notation and tabs overlayed transcribed from Solar, Vierd Blues and Tune Up.You can also check out the free full course about those 10 Miles Davis licks for guitar.
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Blues Progressions For Jazz Musicians - 11 Forms With Analysis & Audio Files
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-10-06
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Blues progressions are fairly present in jazz, there are many variations on the basic structure.
In this lesson you will learn to incorporate major, minor II V I sequences and turnarounds in order to make them evolve.
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Minor Triads for Guitar - Cheat Sheet
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-10-02
- In Infographics
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Minor triads for guitar. Cheat sheet for students and teachers. Get more shapes by downloading the related PDF.
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Major Triads - Guitar Cheat Sheet
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-09-30
- In Infographics
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This infographic show the main major triad positions on the guitar neck. Get more triad shapes with this PDF.
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Diatonic Dyads For Guitar - Lesson With Shapes - Music Theory
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-09-29
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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In music, a dyad refers to a two-note chord or interval. Unlike traditional chords, which consist of three or more notes played simultaneously, dyads are comprised of only two notes. This guitar lesson explores the concept of diatonic dyads.
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10 Jazz Guitar Intros and Endings with Tabs and Audio Files
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-09-27
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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There are mutliple ways of taking an intro or ending a jazz tune.
You can start from the V of the key, simply play the last 4 or 8 bars of the tune, try to incorporate a turnaroud and its several variations, the list is long....
You''ll find in this lesson 10 jazz guitar progressions with tabs, standard notation and audio files that work both as intros and endings for any jazz standards in C major.
Altough all these exercises are in the key of C major, it is possible and very important to transpose them in any key.
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What Scales To Play Over Chords - 17 Essential Scale Shapes
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-09-14
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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What Scale To Choose For Improvising?
One of the most common question a beginner asks when he wants to start improvising on guitar is : Which scale to choose over which chords? However, there is a lot of scale and a lot of chord, it is easy to get lost. That's why it is important to make the relation between them, trying to understand what is the appropriate scale that fit the chord and vice versa.
This guitar lesson provides the seventeen most important scales with shapes and formulas to know for improvising over the most used chord types in jazz music (major, minor, dominant and diminished).
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36 Ways of Playing a Dominant 7 Chord on Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-07-30
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Dominant 7 chords are one of the most important chords to know, they can be found in many styles of music as blues, funk, pop and of course in jazz music. In this lesson we will see how dominant 7 chords are built and how to play them on guitar using 36 different voicing shapes.
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15 Easy Jazz Guitar Chord Shapes For Beginners - Infographic
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-07-28
- In Infographics
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This guitar infographic provides 15 easy jazz chords for beginners.
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Harmonization of the Melodic Minor Scale - Chord Shapes and Theory
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-07-26
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In this lesson we will see how to harmonize the melodic minor scale in thirds with seventh chords. In other words we will see how to build seventh chords by stacking thirds from each degree of the melodic minor scale.
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What Scale to Play Over 7b9 Chord
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-07-12
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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Dominant 7 flat ninth chords (7b9) are generally related to the fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale known as Phrygian dominant scale, which makes it the most obvious choice for improvising over 7b9 chords. However, we will see in this article that there are many other options. -
5 Easy Jazz Blues Arpeggio Studies For Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-06-26
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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This lesson contains five free guitar studies for beginners that outline the use of arpeggios over a Bb jazz blues progression. There are different kinds of jazz blues progressions. The one that is used in this eBook is built with a secondary dominant (VI7), a passing diminished (#IVdim7) and a turnaround (I7, VI7, iim7, V7).
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Bb7 G7 (b9)
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I7 VI7
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