Jazz Guitar Corner

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Bring a more modern sound into your jazz solos.

A quick review of the Bebop scale, how it’s built and where you can use it in your solos.

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.

Expand your knowledge of arpeggios.