Matt Warnock
Matt Warnock is the owner of mattwarnockguitar.com, a free website that provides hundreds of lessons and resources designed to help guitarists of all experience levels meet their practice and performance goals. Matt lives in the UK, where he teaches Skype guitar students all over the world, and is an examiner for the London College of Music (Registry of Guitar Tutors).
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Learn how the Bebop scale is built and where you can use it in your solos

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A quick-fire route to memorizing and mastering the modes

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How to use BB's blues ideas in a jazz context

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Study three jazz chord soloing lines that will bridge the gap between your study of chord shapes and applying those shapes to a real, musical situation.

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Learning how to play the seven modes of melodic minor is an essential skill any guitarist should have in their soloing tool belt.

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A short introduction to the tritone scale, its construction, how to use it and some basic fingerings for this scale on the guitar.

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Learning how to play and apply these subs to your chord work and single-note solos can add an extra layer of harmonic sophistication to your playing.

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Learn how you can take the Hendrix Chord and apply it to jazz guitar comping phrases.

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This cool-sounding scale can jazz up your blues solos in no time. Give it a try!

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Learn some different ways of playing the iim7b5 chord, and some specific ways to connect those voicings to the tonic chord through the V7alt chord in various alterations.

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Add tension and resolution by applying chromatic passing arpeggios into major key ii-V-I progressions.

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Learn three different ways you can solo over 7alt chords.

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Explore five common variations of a two-bar turnaround progression.

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Look at three licks that use melodic minor over a iim7 chord.

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These accent patterns can be used to raise your level of rhythmic and right-hand awareness when practicing scales.

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Explore two common fingerings for ninth arpeggios applied to a ii v I chord progression.

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Expand your knowledge of the neck by soloing and comping through a Bird Blues.

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Grab your axe and dust off those classic pentatonic box patterns.

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Learn how to use three different scales to improvise over minor key ii-V-i’s while still keeping everything related to the tonic key.

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Get a solid foundation of voicings to draw upon in your comping, chord soloing and chord melody playing.

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This Joe Pass concept will help you always have a harmonic and melodic device close by.

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Learn how you can use “rootless” ninth chords to expand your jazz-guitar vocabulary without having to learn any new shapes.

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Comping and chord soloing over minor ii V i chord progressions can be a tough hurdle to get over when learning jazz guitar.
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