Hybrid Solos: How to Blend Two Guitar Genres Into Your Playing
Hybrid solos are where the most interesting guitar playing lives right now. The old record-store bin labels, blues, country, funk, jazz, rock, used to mean something distinct....
Jazz Guitar
Learn Jazz Guitar Songs: A Beginner’s Guide
To learn jazz guitar songs is to sign up for one of the most rewarding harmonic educations available on the instrument....
Jazz Guitar Licks: How to Build a Solo Over Chord Changes
Jazz guitar licks are their own dialect. If you've spent time learning blues or rock vocabulary, you already know that each genre has its own melodic logic....
Chord Substitutions for Jazz Guitar: Add Color to Any Progression
Chord substitutions are one of the most powerful tools a jazz guitarist has. The concept is straightforward: you replace an expected chord with a different one....
Jazz Rhythm Guitar: Chords, Comping & Color Like a Pro
Knowing jazz chords isn't the same as sounding like a pro. Frank Vignola breaks down the two skills that close the gap, harmonic color and comping feel, then maps them onto ten essential standards, from Blue Bossa to All The Things You Are....
Jazz Rhythm Guitar on Blue Bossa and All Blues: Comping Tips
Jazz rhythm guitar on these two tunes will test you in completely different ways. Blue Bossa pulls you into a bossa nova feel with a pivotal key change, while All Blues stretches you across a slow,…...
Jazz Rhythm Guitar: Comping Autumn Leaves and Body and Soul
Jazz rhythm guitar gets a real workout on these two tunes. "Autumn Leaves" and "Body and Soul" are essential jazz standards....
Jazz Rhythm Guitar on C Jam Blues and Sweet Georgia Brown
Jazz rhythm on these two tunes will sharpen your comping faster than almost anything else in the standard repertoire....
Jazz Rhythm Guitar on All The Things You Are and Fly Me to the Moon
Jazz rhythm guitar on these two standards is a genuine workout for your harmonic vocabulary....
Jazz Rhythm Guitar Comping: Miss Jones and Ipanema
Jazz rhythm guitar players often hit a wall when two very different grooves show up on the same gig....
Mastering Extended Guitar Chords: Unlock Sophisticated Jazz and Fusion Textures
You’ve mastered your barre chords, you can fly through pentatonic scales, and your rhythm is locked in. But when you listen to your favorite players—think the h...
Unlocking the Jazz Universe: 5 Guitar-Friendly Standards
Jazz, a genre synonymous with sophistication and improvisation, offers guitarists a fascinating avenue for artistic exploration. In this blog, we'll spotlight f...