My Favorite Thing

About Tom Dempsey Guitarist Tom Dempsey's reputation in the New York jazz scene for hard swinging sophistication and pure musicality have made him a dist...

About Fareed Haque Guitar virtuoso and master educator Fareed Haque has worked with Sting, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Joe Zawinul, Rams...

This study is not only a great technique builder, but also an important tool to begin creating strong melodic phrases that outline the harmony. A great...

One of my favorite things to do when improvising is superimposition. I’ll show you here in this video how to take a F Major 7 arpeggio and play it over a G7 cho...

A great way to organize your improvised solos is with the use of “Call and Response”, also known as “Question and Answer”. This is one of my favorite things to ...

It is fairly common for guitar players to memorize chord fingerings (or grips) and then play songs using muscle memory. Speaking as a guitar player, I admit t...

One of my favorite things is adding color to my solos by going outside the key and then resolving back to the key. You can almost do just about anything while y...