by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, John Scofield
John Scofield’s Intervallic Style Licks In this lesson we explore the use of wide intervals, sometimes referred to as intervallic improvisation. One of the jazz guitarists who has become best known for his frequent use of this concept, is none other than John...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
How To Improvise Off A Standard’s Melody If you are fairly new at jazz improvisation and you gradually want to get your feet wet before getting into the complexities of bebop, in this lesson I share with you two valuable steps that will enable you to improvise...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Master Tuplets I’m going to assume that like most guitarists you’re fairly accustomed to playing triplets. But how about quintuplets, sextuplets and septuplets? Are they a part of your rhythmic vocabulary or does the mere sight of them on a piece of music...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Jazz Arpeggio Sweeps Lessons 1- 4 This post includes the first 4 installments of Jazz Arpeggio Sweeps. Through this ongoing series, each week you get to build up your improvisational vocabulary as well as your economy picking chops with new sweep arpeggio based licks....
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Turn Those Boring Scale Exercises Into Jazz You know those boring exercises many books start you out with when you’re first learning your scales on the instrument? For the most part, they are based on a 4 note motif that is diatonically transposed to begin on...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Triad Pairs PART 2 Hope you were able to watch PART1 of Triad Pairs from Hexatonic Scales which I posted last week. In it I taught the theory and procedure to get you started on this post-bop concept that has been employed by many jazz guitarists such as Jim Hall, Pat...
