Jazz Guitar Corner: Building a Jazz Vocabulary — Melodic Minor Over iim7 By Matt Warnock Look at three licks that use melodic minor over a iim7 chord.
How to Develop Picking Control With Accented Scale Practice By Matt Warnock These accent patterns can be used to raise your level of rhythmic and right-hand awareness when practicing scales.
Expand Your Melodic Colors with Ninth Arpeggios By Matt Warnock Explore two common fingerings for ninth arpeggios applied to a ii v I chord progression.
Jazz Guitar Corner: The Importance of the Bird Blues Chord Progression By Matt Warnock Expand your knowledge of the neck by soloing and comping through a Bird Blues.
Three Must-Know Jazzy Pentatonic Patterns By Matt Warnock Grab your axe and dust off those classic pentatonic box patterns.
Using Three Different Scales to Improvise Over Minor Key ii-V-i’s By Matt Warnock 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.
How to Play 7#11 Chords By Matt Warnock Get a solid foundation of voicings to draw upon in your comping, chord soloing and chord melody playing.
Learn the Fretboard Like Joe Pass By Matt Warnock This Joe Pass concept will help you always have a harmonic and melodic device close by.
Ninth Chords Made Easy By Matt Warnock Learn how you can use “rootless” ninth chords to expand your jazz-guitar vocabulary without having to learn any new shapes.
Using the m7b5 Chord to Comp and Solo By Matt Warnock Comping and chord soloing over minor ii V i chord progressions can be a tough hurdle to get over when learning jazz guitar.
Thinking Two Chords at a Time: Tritone Side-Stepping for Guitar By Matt Warnock Bring a more modern sound into your jazz solos.
An Introduction to the Bebop Scale By Matt Warnock A quick review of the Bebop scale, how it’s built and where you can use it in your solos.
Jazz Guitar Corner: How to Use Triads to Outline Maj7 Chord Extensions By Matt Warnock Different triads you can use in order to outline maj7, 6, maj9 and maj7#11 chords, without having to learn anything beyond the basic triad shapes that you already know.
Three Easy Steps to Creating Killer Arpeggio Licks By Matt Warnock Expand your knowledge of arpeggios.
Jazz Guitar Corner: Unorthodox 4th Chords for Jazz Guitar By Matt Warnock Learn the different inversions of 4th chords on the middle four strings, and work on learning the chord scales associated with these chords.
Half-Whole Diminished Harmony for Jazz Guitar By Matt Warnock One of the most commonly used but tricky scales in jazz guitar is the half-whole diminished scale. Learn how to master it here.
How to Solo with Extended Jazz Guitar Arpeggios By Matt Warnock Learn arpeggios up to the 13th for each of the four “basic” chords and how to apply this concept to major and minor key progressions.
Jazz Guitar Corner: Learn to Play Three Classic Jazz Blues Licks By Matt Warnock You'll have plenty of musical ammo for your jazz-blues solos once you pick up these licks.
Expand Your Melodic Colors with 9th Arpeggios By Matt Warnock Add a bit of harmonic color to your ideas with 9th arpeggios.
One Quick Trick to Solo Over 7b9 Chords By Matt Warnock Learn how you can use harmonic arpeggios to build interesting lines when using a 7b9 diminished scale in your soloing ideas.
