Posts by jazz-guitar-licks
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Guitar Arpeggios - Quick Starter Guide With Diagrams
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-06-25
- In Scales & Arpeggios
- 3 comments
Arpeggios are the backbone of jazz improvisation, they are simple to learn, they allow to easily outline the harmony and create fluid lines. Arpeggios are very popular in all styles of music (rock, metal, blues, pop), that's why it is very important to learn them.
This guitar lesson provides the most important arpeggio shapes that any beginner jazz guitarist must know, classified this way :
major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, half-diminished, diminished 7, Major 7#5 and minMaj7.
You'll find in this tutorial three kinds of guitar diagrams for each arpeggio type :
one-octave shapes (notes within the space of one octave), two-octave shapes (notes within two octaves) and CAGED shapes.
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Pat Martino Guitar Lesson - 10 Licks With Tab and Analysis
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-05-02
- In Licks & Transcriptions
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A brand new video is now available on JGL's YouTube channel. It's about 10 Pat Martino lines taken from the jazz blues tune "Cisco". You can watch / hear the video below and maybe check out the full tutorial in the "solo transcriptions" section of this website.
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Suspended Chords - Guitar Lesson With Charts and Theory
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-04-17
- In Chords / Voicings
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Suspended chords are chords derived from triads and tetrads, the third is replaced with a fourth (most of the time) or a second, making them chords that are neither major nor minor.
This lesson with charts, tabs, and diagrams, teaches how these chords are constructed and how to play them on the guitar.
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Notes on Guitar - Fretboard Diagrams
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-03-30
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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Learning the name of the notes and be able to find them out on the fretboard is very important when you want to explore scales, chords and arpeggios on guitar.
Knowing them on the guitar neck is obviously useful for a better understanding of music theory and sight reading, it will also help you communicate better with other musicians.
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Superimposing Arpeggios - Guitar Lesson
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-03-25
- In Teacher Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Lesson by George Dafnos
Here are somme ideas inspired by great jazz guitarists as Wes Montgomery ,George Benson on how to superimpose almost all the chord family degrees. This concept helps mapping the arpeggio combinations and listen different coloursounds above root ,subdominant or dominant families. After mastering all these, be sure to try making your own jazz lines and licks.
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Satin Doll - Chords and Scales For Guitar - Lesson For Beginners
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-03-22
- In Jazz Standards
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Satin Doll by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, witten in 1953, is one of the most famous jazz tune. It has been recorded by many jazz musicians as Wes Montgomery, Ella Fitzgerald, Mc Coy Tyner, Oscar Peterson and of course Duke Ellington himself. It has become a classic jazz standard, a must-hear, very popular at jam sessions.
This guitar lesson with chord shapes and scale charts explains how to play easy jazz chords and what basic scales to choose for improvising over Satin Doll.
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Satin Doll Arranged For Jazz Guitar - Video With Tabs
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-03-15
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Check out the latest video from the YouTube channel. This is a chord melody arrangement for guitar of Duke Ellington's jazz standard "Satin Doll".
This free lesson with tabs is intended for intermediate players who want to practice some drop 2, drop 3 voicings, walking bass lines, chords inversions and substitutions over one of the most popular jazz tune.
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New PDF Method - 30 Smooth Jazz Guitar Licks
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-02-11
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
- 0 comments
A new guitar method has been published recently to meet the demand of jazz-guitar-licks.com readers and buyers.
This printable PDF eBook is dedicated to Smooth Jazz Licks in the tradition of George Benson, Pat Metheny, Ronnie Jordan, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour and many more.
It is designed both for teachers and students who want to expand their theoretical knowledge and guitar technique .
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So What - Miles Davis Transription For Guitar - Modal Jazz Solo With Tab
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-02-01
- In Teacher Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Lesson by Steve Down
Here is a transcription for guitar of So What by Miles Davis. This video lesson provides the tab of the main theme and the whole Miles Davis solo. A good introduction to modal playing on guitar thus showing how Miles Davis used the Dorian mode (D Dorian and Eb Dorian).
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6 Types of Dominant Scales - Guitar Chart With Shapes
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-01-24
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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This cheat sheet is a guitar chart containing 12 shapes that show the main dominant scales used in jazz music (Mixolydian, Lydian dominant, Mixolydian b9, Mixolydian b13, dominant bebop, Phrygian dominant).
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The Phrygian Mode - Theory, Licks, Charts and Shapes
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-01-07
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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You'll find in this blog post several cheat sheets for guitarists about the Phrygian mode, third mode of the major scale. These infographics are related to the YouTube video below. They show how this minor scale is built, how to play it on guitar, what are the related chords, how to use it over common chord progressions, etc.
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6 Types of Major Scales - Guitar Chart With Shapes
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-12-27
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This infographic chart with guitar shapes show the main 6 major scales used in jazz:
- Ionian Mode
- Major Pentatonic
- Lydian Mode
- Major Bebop
- Lydian Pentatonic
- Lydian Augmented
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6 Types of Minor Scales - Charts and Shapes For Guitar Players
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-12-20
- In Infographics
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This infographic with guitar shapes show the main 6 minor scales used in jazz as :
- Minor pentatonic
- Minor blues
- Dorian mode
- Aeolian mode
- Melodic minor
- Harmonic minor
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Dorian Mode Tutorial - Theory, Shapes, Chords, Scales, Arpeggios & Licks
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-12-07
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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This blog post contains free cheat sheets (infographics) for guitar players about the Dorian mode. You will find useful information on how to play chords, arpeggios and minor licks directly related to this minor scale.
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Major Scale Aka Ionian Mode - YouTube Video - Cheat Sheets For Guitar - Scales, Chords, Patterns and Licks
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-11-26
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Here are some free cheat sheets for guitar teachers and students about the Ionian mode aka The Major Scale. Here, you'll find chord and scale shapes with easy patterns and licks related to the Ionian mode.
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Ryland By Julian Lage - Guitar Transcription (PDF)
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-11-15
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Here is a video transcription for guitar of Ryland by Julian Lage.
Music By Julian Lage From The Album Arclight, available via Mack Avenue Records:
AMAZON : Arclight Album
iTUNES: http://radi.al/JulianiTunes
Visit Julian's YouTube Channel
Buy Julian Lage Discography on Amazon