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 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,
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
7th chords have been covered here before on , so in this post, I want to expand our ideas about 7th chords and offer up a fun way to practice 7th chords in all 12 keys. Exotic 7th Chord
The double harmonic major scale is also know as Byzantine scale, Ionian flat 2 flat 6, Flamenco mode, Major Romani and Gipsy major. It is made of seven pitches (heptatonic) giving the interval pattern :
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.
