Learn Jazz Arrangements for Solo Guitar
One of the greatest leaps a guitarist must make is the leap from playing with a band to learning to play solo. A guitarist must go from playing standard chords ...
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9 Ways to Jazz Up the Pentatonic Scale
Most guitar players are familiar with the pentatonic scale; often times it's the first scale you learn to play on the guitar. It's a major part of blues, rock, ...
Chord Voicings & Performance Studies to Dial-in Your Jazz Guitar Comping
In order to be adept at jazz, a guitar player must learn a vast vocabulary of chord voicings, as well as have the confidence to hang with the band, complimentin...
Get Your Soul Jazz Groove On with These 7 Free Guitar Lessons
Soul jazz is a musical style coming from the 60's and 70's, bringing in the sounds of blues, soul, jazz, gospel, swing, R&B, and funk to create a danceable, fun...
4 Jazz Guitar Turnarounds Every Guitarist Should Know
In Frank Vignola's 30 Jazz Turnarounds, he takes you through 30 different ways to play a turnaround using common jazz guitar progressions, such as a 1-6-2-5. Th...
Jazz Up Your Blues Playing with 8 Free Frank Vignola Guitar Lessons
Do you want to learn play jazz blues, or add in jazz to your blues playing like Larry Carlton or Robben Ford? By exposing yourself to jazz harmonies and melody,...
Jazz Up Your Blues with These 4 Free Guitar Lessons from Frank Vignola
Blues gave birth to jazz, yet making the connection between the two might be hard for some players who aren't experienced in playing jazz harmonies and melodic ...
Walking Bass Lines for Jazz: 2 Free Guitar Lessons
Learning walking bass lines and the accompanying comping techniques gives jazz guitarists a way to play solo while still having a full, rich sound that a bassis...
5 Smokin’ Jazz Guitar Licks You MUST Know
These 5 free guitar lessons are from Frank Vignola's 30 Smokin' Jazz Guitar Licks, which will stoke your vocabulary with very versatile licks, all of which are ...
7 Jazz Scales Guitar Lessons
These 7 free guitar lessons are from Tom Dempsey's Jazz Scales Handbook, in this you'll cover the most commonly used scales found in jazz and how these scales c...
90 Majorly Juicy Ways to Play a ii-V-I Progression
Eureka! If you play or are learning to play jazz guitar, you've just stumbled on a map to the motherlode. The 2-5-1 progression is to jazz what the 1-4-5 progre...
8 Electric Guitar Techniques You MUST Know
These 8 free guitar lessons are from Chris Buono's 60 Electric Guitar Techniques You MUST Know where he'll describe and demonstrate 65 of the most popular elect...