Posts by jazz-guitar-licks
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Jazz Blues Guitar Study - Basic Chords and Minor Blues Scale
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-10-07
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Here is 12-bar jazz-blues study in Bb with guitar tab and standard notation mixing basic jazz chords and minor blues scale fragments. You'll find it for free (or Pay What You Want) on jazz-guitar-licks Gumroad store.
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Arpeggios On Guitar - Giant Poster
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-10-05
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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A new guitar poster referencing the most used arpeggios shapes is available on Jazz Guitar Licks Teespring Store. This reference chart includes 50 diagrams to help guitarists figure out arpeggio positions all over the guitar neck. The size of this poster is 24 x 36 inches (60 x 90 cm), the arpeggio types covered are:
- Major 7
- Minor 7
- Dominant 7
- Half-diminished
- Diminished 7
- Minor Major 7
- Augmented Major 7
- Augmented 7
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Extended and Altered Dominant Guitar Chord Shapes - Free PDF Chart
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-10-04
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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This free guitar chord chart available as a PDF file contains the most important altered and extended dominant guitar chord shapes that any guitar player should know. It is totally free (or Pay What You Want) in return, don't hesitate to support this website.
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My Favorite Things by Kenny Burrell - 5 Must Learn Licks
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-10-01
- In Teacher Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Lesson By Steve Down
This video is the last installment of the lesson series on the funky Kenny Burrell version of "My Favorite Things" from his 1966 album "Soulero". In this last lesson (please consider watching the 7 previous) we finish off by looking at the final head, the outro solo and I give you my top 5 take aways from the series complete with some extra example licks!
Have fun practicing!
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Intervals On Guitar - PDF Cheat Sheet With Shapes - Free Download
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-09-25
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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This free PDF chart contains shapes for a better understanding on how to play of music intervals on the guitar. This cheat sheet is available for free (or Pay What You Want) on Jazz Guitar Licks Gumroad Library
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Chord Connections - 3 Exercises For Guitar - PDF Cheat Sheet
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-09-20
- In Chords / Voicings
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Here is a cheat sheet containing three easy exercises for connecting basic guitar chord shapes as min7, maj7, dim7, m7b5, 7sus, 9th, 7#9, 7b9, min6, 6. It is available for free (or Pay What You Want) in Jazz Guitar Licks Gumroad Shop.
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Drop 3 Chord Construction - Music Theory - Free Printable PDF
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-09-09
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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This music theory cheat sheet file explains effectively how drop 3 chords are built. You can download the printable PDF file (better quality) for free (or make a donation to support this website) following this link.
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Pentatonic Scales Over 2 5 1
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-09-03
- In Teacher Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Lesson by Joost Zoeteman
This video lesson is taken from JGL's facebook group "Jazz Guitar Lessons". Guitarist Joost Zoeteman explains how different types of pentatonic scales can be applied to a 2 5 1 chord progression.
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How Drop 2 Chords Are Built - Music Theory Cheat Sheet
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-08-29
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Drop 2 chords are built by dropping the second highest note of a close chord down an octave, thus giving four supplementary ways of playing a seventh chord (min7, maj7, dom7, m7b5, dim7, aug7, augMaj7).
This free music theory cheat sheet will help you understand how these drop 2 voicings are built. You can easily get it for free (or name a fair price) in PDF format on GUMROAD.
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Warm-up Exercise #2 - Dominant 7th Arpeggios
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-08-16
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This lesson is about a good warm-up exercise for guitarist implying a short pattern (4 beats) made of dominant seventh arpeggios separated by a tritone (3 whole tones = augmented fourth). This pattern is repeated following a descending chromatic movement.
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Warm-up Exercise For Guitar - Seventh Arpeggios
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-08-11
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This warm-up exercise for guitar is to repeat a melodic line following the cycle of fourths. This line is made of two bars containing a major seventh arpeggio (1 - 3 - 5 - 7) and two half-diminished arpeggios (1 - b3 - b5 - b7).
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The Circle of Fifths - Music Theory
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-07-22
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The circle of fifths is the way the 12 musical notes of the chromatic scale are arranged following a sequence of perfect fifths (7 semitones).
It helps visualizing relationships between notes and better understanding diatonic harmony.
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Modes of The Major Scale - Music Theory
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-07-18
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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This cheat sheet show how the modes of the major scale are built and what is the relation between them.
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Chord Formulas - Reference Chart
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-07-08
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Armando's Rumba - Guitar Chords
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-07-07
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This lesson provides a chord study with tab of the Latin jazz tune Armando's rumba by Chick Corea based on the Latin Real Book version in C minor. Here below you'll find guitar tabs corresponding to the four main parts of the tune (A-B-C-D).
The chords used in this arrangement are mostly seventh chords as min7, maj7, dim7 and dom7 (drop 2, drop 3 and rootless voicings) including basic triads (min, aug) and altered dominant chords (7#9, 7b13).
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Triad Chords For Guitar On YouTube and PDF
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-07-04
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A new tutorial has been published on Jazz Guitar Licks YouTube channel.
It shows how to play the main triads on guitar using neck diagram shapes.
The triads discussed are : minor, major, diminished, augmented and suspended 2 & 4.
For those who'd like to get the printable PDF version and get more triad voicing shapes (open and close), there is a new method available since a few days, just click on the picture below to get it.