guitar chords
Along with basic intervals and seventh chords, triads are the fundamental building blocks of jazz harmony and melody. If you want to maximize your ability to hear, visualize, and play jazz harmony, you have to master your triads. Practice Triads
This concept highly prized by solo guitar players consists in mixing chords and bass lines. It can be very useful for guitarists who want to accompany a singer or a soloist in a duo situation for example. Exercises For Jazz Guitar
These free minor II V I jazz guitar licks. These 5 licks are built with essential arpeggios and scales as Bebop Locrian
When exploring jazz guitar improvisation, melodic patterns are essential musical tools to bring into your guitar practice routine. Major Jazz Guitar Licks
This guitar lesson is about a very important concept used by many jazz improvisers named “Target notes” or “target tones” or “approach notes”. It has to do with targeting chord tones by scale or chromatically.
Here is a transcription (tabs, and standard notation) of the guitar comping played by Howard Roberts in the jazz standard Blues Moon with Julie London. You will find in the following:
This short jazz guitar study with tab, score and chord charts provides some easy jazz lines to apply over three common chord progressions found in jazz. These licks will help you better understand what scales and modes can be used over basic chord changes. Jazz Guitar Phrases
Dom7, Dim7 And Min6 Chord Construction – Some Basics
Before dealing with the main topic of the lesson, you need to know what a dominant 7 chord, a diminished chord and a minor 6 chord is, either by clicking on the corresponding links or by reading the following reminder. Diminished 7 Chords
The minor II-V-I sequence is equivalent to the major II-V-I sequence, but played in minor harmonic key. It is a must know for any guitarist who wants to learn to solo over tunes in minor keys.
The triad pair system is a technique used by many jazz improviser to build modern improvised lines. It consists of playing two adjacent triads from a scale. The most used are from the major diatonic Jazz Guitar
