by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Regardless of what level we’re at, the fact is that as improvisers we all have pet licks we tend to fall back on. These so called jazz licks are pieces of something we might have learned from a transcription which has become part of our habitual improvisational...
by Richie Zellon | Basic Theory, Jazz Improvisation
Implying the Harmony in a Jazz Guitar Solo One of the trademarks of a great solo is that if you strip away the rhythm section you will hear the chord changes implied in the soloist’s lines. This brings to mind several great saxophonists who have recorded trio...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Pentatonics
How to Play & Use the Symmetrical Pentatonic Scale In this lesson I teach you how to extract from the melodic minor scale, another scale that most guitarists aren’t familiar with… the symmetrical pentatonic. Unlike the 8-note symmetrical diminished...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Pentatonics
How To Play And Use The Whole Tone Pentatonic- Part 2 In Part 1 of this lesson we learned about the origins of the whole tone pentatonic, its construction, and how to improvise over various chords using the concept of super-imposition. In this 2nd part I’m going...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Pentatonics
How to Play and Use the Whole Tone Pentatonic- Part 1 In this two part lesson I’d like to show you how to play and use a scale that most guitarists aren’t even aware of. I’m referring to the whole tone pentatonic. So where does this scale come from?...
by Richie Zellon | Chord Melody, Jazz Improvisation
The Minor 6th Chord: When & How To Use It! How often do you use the minor 6th chord? If you’re like most guitarists, your answer is probably going to be…once in a blue moon! Yet this is a very useful chord, especially when playing standards in minor...
