by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
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...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
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...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, Miles Davis
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...
by Richie Zellon | Comping, Harmonic Cadence, Jazz Improvisation
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...
by Richie Zellon | Comping, Harmonic Cadence, Jazz Improvisation
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,...
by Richie Zellon | Harmonic Cadence, Jazz Improvisation
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...
