5 Major Jazz Guitar Licks – Easy Tabs and Analysis
When exploring jazz guitar improvisation, melodic patterns are essential musical tools to bring into your guitar practice routine. Major Jazz Guitar Licks
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Target Tones and Enclosures – 58 Easy Guitar Patterns
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.
5 Ways to Play “Outside” on the Blues Easy Guitar Practice 2@22
The 12-bar blues is one of the most simple, short, and iconic standard jazz forms. As jazz musicians, we all are used to playing blue’s tunes frequently, which can be both a blessing and a curse. With so many blue’s choruses to improvise over,
“Super Blues” Scales for Leveling-Up Your Jazz Blues Easy Improve 2@22
The Super blues scale is a very useful scale, but I’ve found it doesn’t always adequately capture what jazz musicians actually play when improvising over a blues in a “bluesy” way.
25 Exotic Scales On Guitar – Charts, Easy Diagrams And Audio
This guitar lesson lists 25 exotic scales from different cultures and countries to add new colors to your playing. You’ll find two-octave guitar shapes, formula charts, audio files in the key of C for each scale and classified into five main categories
Jazz Guitar Scale Easy Exercises – Shapes with the Melodic Minor Scale 2@22
earning and playing scales can be an important part of any guitarist’s practice regime. By playing scales in a variety of ways we can develop our familiarity with the fretboard beyond simply going up and down scales. Jazz Guitar Scale
Harmonic Minor Bebop Scale Ultimate Best Guitar Shapes Charts and Theory 2
The harmonic minor bebop scale is obviously based on the harmonic minor scale. It contains an additional note (b7) between the minor 6 (b6) and the major 7 giving the following interval pattern made of eight notes : 1 (tonic) – 2 (second) – b3 (minor third) – 4 (perfect fourth) – 5 (perfect fifth) – b6 (minor sixth) – b7 (minor seventh) – 7 (major seventh).
Melodic Minor Bebop Scale – Best Guitar Diagrams and Formula Charts 2022
The melodic minor bebop scale, like all bebop scales, is built with eight notes. It can be seen as the melodic minor scale with an added note, the sharp fifth (#5), between the 5 and 6, thus giving the following interval pattern : 1 (tonic), 2 (major second), b3 (minor third), 4 (perfect fourth), 5 (perfect fifth), #5 (augmented fifth), 6 (major sixth) and major seventh (7).
Fact About Phrygian Dominant Bebop Scale Best Jazz Concepts 2022
The Phrygian Dominant Scale. Its Fifth Mode of Harmonic Minor Scale, But with an additional note, A Natural Seventh [7] Between the b7 and the tonic [1]. The Phrygian Dominant scale Interval Pattern is 1-b2-3-4-5-b6-b7-7
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The Locrian Bebop Scale | Best Guitar Diagrams and Patterns 2022
The Locrian bebop scale is made up of eight notes, it’s an octatonic scale. The formula is 1 – b2 – b3 – 4 – b5 – 5 – b6 – b7. This is the Locrian mode with a passing tone (5) between the flat five (b5) and the minor sixth (b6). This scale is commonly played over m7b5 chords but it can be a good choice when you want to improvise over dominant chords as explained below.