by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, John Coltrane
Coltrane’s Ghosting Technique on Guitar So you’re probably wondering…what on earth is this “ghosting” technique John Coltrane used and why would I as a guitarist want to learn it? Simply because by emulating it on guitar it’s bound...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, Playing "Outside" The Changes
Playing Outside Using 5ths “Coltrane, Wes & the Power of 5ths” If like most of us you first learned to play rock and blues on guitar, I’m sure you have spent considerable time playing perfect 5ths all over the neck. Yes…I’m talking...
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...
