Etude from Jazz Guitar Structures on YouTube
And here’s an etude from Jazz Guitar Structures played by a random bi-pedal, sapient human on YouTube, not moi.
Soloing II
Soloing • Construction and Theory Part II When you are improvising on a set of chord changes, you are in effect telling the listener one of two things: what is the same about two adjacent chords or what is different about them. Notes that are the same from chord to chord are called common tones: […]
Soloing
Soloing • Construction and Theory The purpose of taking a solo should be that of playing any music: communication. To paraphrase Keith Jarrett, it is the process of taking the idea in your mind and putting it in someone else’s mind by the mechanism of playing a note. Listeners don’t care what you play, they […]
Jazz Guitar Basics
Chord of the Week Chord of the Week Jazz Guitar Basics Intro to Jazz Guitar Chords Scales Reading Picking Fingering Soloing Comping Lessons from Chops Factory (my old site) Theory Lessons on theory as they relate to jazz improvisation. Concepts about connecting ideas, and more! Respelling Chords/Scales Respelling Chords/Scales II How to Use Triad Arpeggios […]
Fingering Technique
Fingering Technique Jazz Guitar Technique Andrew Green Paperback: 112 pages E-book Publisher: Microphonic Press ISBN: 0-9700576-1-X Having effective left hand technique means being able to finger a wide variety of musical ideas when improvising, at a variety of tempos. On guitar, unlike many other instruments, […]
Picking Technique
Picking Technique Jazz Guitar Technique Andrew Green Paperback: 112 pages E-book Publisher: Microphonic Press ISBN: 0-9700576-1-X The interesting thing about picking is that there are different ways of doing it. George Benson has a different technique than Pat Martino. Wes Montgomery uses a different technique than […]
Intro to Jazz
Introduction to Jazz Guitar If Jazz is new to you, this is a good place to get acquainted with some of the fundamentals. • Jazz Chords to get some chords to use right away. • Jazz Scales to check out some of the different ways of arranging seven notes • Comping to learn how to […]
JGT Grabbing Chords
Jazz Guitar Technique – Grabbing Chords Jazz Guitar Technique Andrew Green Paperback: 112 pages E-book Publisher: Microphonic Press ISBN: 0-9700576-1-X Grabbing Chords Being able to grab chord voicings easily is vital for comping behind melodies and solos, and for filling out your own solos if […]
JGT Phrasing
Jazz Guitar Technique – Phrasing/Articulation Jazz Guitar Technique Andrew Green Paperback: 112 pages E-book Publisher: Microphonic Press ISBN: 0-9700576-1-X Phrasing and Articulation One way to increase the interest within an eighth-note line is by varying attack and volume. This is done to achieve a more […]
JGT Three-String Exercises
Jazz Guitar Technique Jazz Guitar Technique Andrew Green Paperback: 112 pages E-book Publisher: Microphonic Press ISBN: 0-9700576-1-X Playing Across Two and Three Strings The following phrases are a sample from the 5 pages of Two- and Three-String Phrases in the book. Playing Across Three […]
JGT Cross-String Studies
Jazz Guitar Technique – Cross-String Studies Jazz Guitar Technique Andrew Green Paperback: 112 pages E-book Publisher: Microphonic Press ISBN: 0-9700576-1-X TWO-STRING EXERCISES The following exercises are a sample from the six pages of Two-String Studies in the book. Picking across the strings (one note […]
JGT Basics
Jazz Guitar Technique Jazz Guitar Technique Andrew Green Paperback: 112 pages E-book Publisher: Microphonic Press ISBN: 0-9700576-1-X Learning the Neck To improvise freely on the guitar, you need to be able to play the same idea in many different places on the neck. Otherwise, […]
Jazz Guitar Technique
Jazz Guitar Technique – Introduction Jazz Guitar Technique Andrew Green Paperback: 112 pages E-book Publisher: Microphonic Press ISBN: 0-9700576-1-X INTRODUCTION When improvising, what your mind hears is more often than not determined by what your body can reproduce on your instrument. Much of your conception […]