Jazz Guitar Corner

Learn how the Bebop scale is built and where you can use it in your solos

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.