9 Free Pentatonic Jazz Guitar Lessons To Spice Up Your Improvisations
Musicians of any kind, and notably guitar players, know the significant role the pentatonic scale plays in many genres. We use it EVERYWHERE in blues, country, ...
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4 Best Jazz Guitarists of All Time
Did you know April 30th is International Jazz Day? Jazz music, an American-originating genre, has been globally popular since the 1920s. Combining facets of bot...
4 Free Comping Jazz Guitar Lessons From Sean McGowan
Entering the world of jazz, for many players, is not only a journey of technical learning, but a lifestyle change. The challenges in becoming fluent are many, b...
10 Jazz Blues Guitar Lessons With Sean McGowan
Along the historic timeline of American music, traditional country blues evolved into an electric style. This marked the first bricks in the road to jazz music....
Step Up Your Solos With These 5 Jazz Guitar Soloing Lessons
As guitar players, we are always trying to improve on the skills we have learned. And, one the best ways to learn new music and improve your performance is to p...
6 Free Guitar Lessons to Fuse Your Jazz, Blues, and Boogaloo Playing
Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, George Benson, Wes Montgomery --- these legendary guitarists made their claim to fame in the 1960s playing a soulful, groovy style t...
Step Up Your Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Playing With These 3 Lessons From Sean McGowan
Swapping out a guitar pick for our fingers opens the door to one of the most organic and rewarding ways to play guitar -- especially when it comes to jazz! P...
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...
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...