In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to convert a standard blues composition into a much jazzier sounding progression (for both rhythm and lead) by working in the 2-5-1 chord progression in various ways. … [Read more...]
Gypsy Jazz Lead Guitar Lesson – Understanding how to play the chord changes when improvising – EP502
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Gypsy Jazz / Western Swing style lead that works on acoustic or electric guitar. Learn how to play over chord changes! … [Read more...]
5 simple ideas to jazz up your blues guitar – Guitar Lesson EP483
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to incorporate 5 simple jazz ideas into your blues. … [Read more...]
How to improvise over a 1 chord jam, using 2 scales. Guitar Lesson – EP455
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to use the E minor pentatonic scale and the E dorian scale together to jam over an E minor groove. … [Read more...]
Lead guitar ideas: Diminished arpeggios for that “outside” sound in your lead. Guitar Lesson EP424
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to incorporate diminished arpeggios into your lead when you improvise for that "outside" sound that you hear blues / jazz players like Robben Ford use. … [Read more...]
How to use diminished chords in a composition – Jazzy Blues Guitar Lesson – EP413
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn what diminished chords are and how to use them (the 3 main cases for them), as well as the main use of an augmented chord. To put everything into practice from this lesson, you'll be learning a jazzy, blues composition that you can play by yourself. … [Read more...]
Add the diminished sound to jazz up your blues – EP396
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to incorporate diminished chords, scales, and arpeggios into your blues lead (or rhythm). Not only will you learn to play them, but you'll learn WHEN to play them, which is just as critical. … [Read more...]
Jazz up your blues rhythm and lead by using 2-5-1 turnarounds – Guitar Lesson EP371
In this week's guitar lesson, we'll continue our look at Secondary Dominant Chords (from last week, EP370), and add the minor 2 chord, so that we can now play a 2-5-1 chord combination for any of the chords in the chord family of the key we're in. You'll learn how all of this applies to a 12 bar blues in this lesson. … [Read more...]
How To Harmonize Using 3rd and 6th Intervals – Harmonized Lead Guitar Lesson – EP363
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play both the major scale and a bluesy version of the major scale (mixolydian mode) by using harmonized 3rd and harmonized 6th intervals. You'll be able to not only understand where these harmonies come from, but how to connect them back to familiar chord shapes that you already know so that you can start using them when you improvise. … [Read more...]
Jazzy, Blues Lead Guitar Lesson in B Flat (Includes “Out of the box” Licks) – EP352
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a blues lead that's played over a B flat shuffle which includes several "out of the box" type licks, designed to make your lead sound more sophisticated. This is perfect for those of you that are looking to add a little more jazz to your blues leads. … [Read more...]
