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My Funny Valentine- Chord Melody
In this video tutorial I teach you my chord melody rendition of a standard ballad often associated with Miles Davis. And I'm referring to the Rodgers and Hart composition, "My Funny Valentine" which works beautifully when played as a fingerstyle solo jazz guitar...
Comp over any Standard with these 2 Chord Shapes
It's fascinating how certain chord shapes can take on so many identities depending on the context you play them in. I call them chords with multi-personality disorder (LOL), which happens to be the subject of this video. In this lesson I show you 2 unique shapes on...
How to Solo “Outside”
In this lesson I unravel the mystery of playing "outside" without sounding like you made a mistake or got lost in the changes. Now, if you are new to jazz and have no clue what playing "outside" is, let me just briefly sum it up as temporarily improvising over...
Alone Together Chord Melody
This chord melody lesson is over one of my all time favorite standards: Alone Together ! I fell in love with this piece after first hearing it played as a duet by Jim Hall & Ron Carter. However for my rendition, since Ron wasn't available to play with me (lol), I...
Jazzify Your Rock Solos
This lesson is specially dedicated to all those of you who are actively Rock players and would like to use a jazzier approach during your solos without sounding totally out of context. That is, you don't want to play the same straight pentatonic throughout the entire...
2 Ingredients to Bebopify your Solos
If you're a beginning to intermediate jazz guitar student and know your basic scales, but you feel your solos don't quite sound like jazz...this lesson is for you! In this video I teach you how to incorporate 2 important melodic ingredients that are characteristic of...
“Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” Chord Melody
Here's a lesson of a classic Xmas standard arrangement featuring some jazzy chord melody...Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. If you get a head start on it now, you might get it down in time to play for Santa...that is, if you haven't been naughty...ho,ho,ho! :)PDF &...
“Just The Way You Are” Chord Melody
A chord melody lesson of a gorgeous tune which you're most likely familiar with..."Just The Way You Are" by Billy Joel. This is considered one of the "new standards" and features all the usual jazz harmony we'd find in any of the classics from yesteryear. To make it...
“Stompin’ At The Savoy” Chord Melody
Here's a finger-style chord melody lesson, this time of one of my favorite standards associated with the swing era: Stompin' at the Savoy. It's a timeless standard that first became a hit by the Benny Goodman Orchestra way back in 1936. And it just so happens that it...
5 Chromatic Licks To Jump-Start Your Solos
In this video lesson I want to share some cool chromatic lines that are sure to grab your listeners ear when you start a solo.... You know that section after playing the head to a standard, where the whole band stops and the soloist plays a flurry of notes leading...
“My Favorite Things” Chord Melody
My Favorite Things (transcription from the video) If you're one of those guitarists that is jealous of how pianists have all the advantages just because they can get a fuller sound using both hands to simultaneously play a chord and a melody, and you believe this...
Miles’ Secret Solo Sauce Revealed!
Have you ever wondered why Miles Davis is so revered as a jazz improviser and why so many musicians worldwide transcribe and study his solos? I just posted one of my all time favorite lessons in which I play 4 measure fragments of 10 different solos that Miles...
“Imagine” Chord Melody
Hope you had a chance to check my previous video lesson in which I shared a chord melody arrangement of a Beatles tune...but re-harmonized using some Coltrane Changes! This week I am happy to bring you another Beatles related solo guitar arrangement. It is a jazzy...
How Insensitive Chord Melody
In this lesson I teach you a fingerstyle chord melody arrangement of "How Insensitive" by one of bossa nova's most prolific composers...Tom Jobim! In several interviews, Jobim mentioned his admiration for classical composer Frederic Chopin, so it isn't a coincidence...
This Chord Will Revitalize Your Standards!
Did you know that there's a seldom used chord, that when used in the right places will breathe new life to those overplayed Standards? It's one the old beboppers didn't know about . I heard it for the first time in the playing of Allan Holdsworth, John Abercrombie,...
The Look of Love Chord Melody
In this lesson you will learn a finger-style chord melody arrangement of a popular composition by a prolific songwriter who initially made his mark in pop music during the 1960s. Although you don't hear his name that much in the world of jazz standards, I personally...
Phrygian Cadences
What do tunes like Miles Davis' "Nardis", Wayne Shorter's "Speak No Evil", and Chick Corea's "Spain" & "La Fiesta" have in common? That they all employ phrygian modal cadences, also the subject of this video!In this lesson, not only do I give you examples of both...
Dorian Cadences: Comping and Soloing Made Easy
This is the first in a 2 part series on Modal Cadences. In this lesson you will learn all about Dorian Cadences...what are they; how to identify them in many standards that you most likely already play; when and how to create them to add more harmonic motion to your...