Blues
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Chromatic Descending Chord Sequence Over A Basic Blues Progression
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-06-25
- In Chords / Voicings
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This guitar lesson for beginners explains what's a basic blues progression and how to add a chromatic descending chord sequence at the end.
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Basic Chords And Octave Playing Over A Blues In Bb - Lesson With PDF And YouTube Short Video
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2023-06-10
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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This jazz guitar lesson for beginners provides an easy study to practice octave playing and basic jazz chords over a Blues in Bb. It is available as a YouTube Short Video and a free transcription in PDF with chord shapes tab and standard notation.
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Fingerstyle Guitar - Quick Guide For Beginners
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2023-02-23
- In Guitar Practice Tips
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This guitar lesson focuses on a technique used in many styles of music (blues, jazz, rock, flamenco, pop, bossa nova, etc) called "Fingerstyle" which is to play the strings with the fingers (thumb, index, major and annular) instead of a pick.
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Chromatic Lines And Dyads (Aka Double Stops) Over Dominant 7 Chords - Guitar Lesson With Free PDF (TAB + STANDARD NOTATION)
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2022-08-31
- 2 comments
This lesson provides a free PDF music sheet with tab containing some easy jazz blues lines to practice dyads and chromaticisms over two dominant chords. This tutorial is also accompanied by a short YouTube video.
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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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5 Easy Jazz Blues Arpeggio Studies For Guitar
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2019-06-26
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
- 2 comments
This lesson contains five free guitar studies for beginners that outline the use of arpeggios over a Bb jazz blues progression.
There are different types of jazz blues progressions.
The one used in this tutorial is built with a secondary dominant (VI7), a passing diminished (#IVdim7) and a turnaround (I7, VI7, iim7, V7).
Bb7
Eb7
Bb7
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I7
IV7
I7
I7
Eb7
Edim7
Bb7
G7(b9)
IV7
#IVdim7
I7
VI7
Cm7
F7
Bb7 G7 (b9)
Cm7 F7
iim7
V7
I7 VI7
iim7 V7
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The Blues Arpeggio - How To Mix Major And Minor Triads
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2017-11-17
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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What's the Blues Arpeggio ?Traditionally, when a student learns to improvise over a jazz, blues tune, he taught pentatonic scales, major triads or dominant 7th arpeggios, but there is something missing to get this specific and exciting jazz-blues sound, "The Blues Arpeggio". This is a very interesting and important device to use over this musical genre. It is a mix of a major triad and a minor triad, it contains both major and minor thirds, representing one of the most vital elements of the blues. In this jazz guitar lesson we will see how to build the blues arpeggio, how to practice it and how to play it on a blues.
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NEW PDF eBook Available for Download - 40 Blues, Jazz Guitar Licks With Tabs
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2016-08-29
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A new PDF eBook is now available for download via the GUMROAD / PAYPAL interface. This jazz method contains 40 jazz, blues licks with tabs, scales charts and two jazz swing backing track in C7.
This PDF booklet is dedicated to the jazz guitar students who wants to improve their jazz, blues playing in the style of Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Charlie Christian, George Benson, Barney Kessel and more.
Package details :
- 1 printable PDF booklet containing 40 jazz blues guitar licks in C7 with tabs and scales charts.
- 2 blues jazz swing (one chord C7) backing tracks (120 & 150 BPM) - (Quality mp3 audio file).
