One of the most essential skills for any jazz guitar player to learn is comping in a trio setting. Nailing the harmonic texture, navigating odd meters, and sitt...
If you aspire to become a skilled jazz musician, learning to improvise is essential. And when improving your improvisational skills, learning to build compellin...
When any of us learn to play the guitar, the style we end up developing is ultimately influenced by the styles of the players we learn from. In other words, it'...
Learning any new style of guitar playing, naturally, comes as a challenge. This can seem especially true when first entering the realm of jazz guitar. Jazz is a...
Improvising in a jazz context can be a daunting skill to grapple with. But, one of the keys to improving this skill is intentionally targeting, or resolving to ...
Throughout the 1960's, we saw the rise of great jazz guitar players such as Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, Howard Johnson, and George Benson. They ...
Imagine this: as a jazz guitarist you are accompanying a vocalist as part of a duo. Now, you've finished playing the theme and it's your time to improvise. How ...
When jazz guitar players are not performing a solo guitar arrangement, they often find themselves comping for other players. Comping is an extremely important s...
Any time you encounter a jazz standard, you're almost always dealing with at least one of 6 very common chord progressions. 2-5-1 major, 2-5-1 minor, 1-4-1, 1-6...
A vast majority of the time a band is interested in hiring a jazz guitar player, it is not for their ability to play lead lines and take solos. instead, they ar...
Getting better as a guitar player often involves jamming and performing with other musicians. That is where a substantial amount of your growth happens naturall...
If you are learning to become a jazz guitarist, you might be one of many that struggle to express captivating, contemporary jazz harmony. One of the best ways t...
