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...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Theory
Triad Pairs PART1 Click Here for “Hexatonic Triad Pairs PART 2” Just in case you’re wondering, “what on earth is a hexatonic scale?”, let me answer that first. Being a guitar player, I’m sure that you’re familiar with...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
1 String Improvisation Exercises In this lesson I want to introduce you to an effective fretboard mastery method suggested by one of my mentors, the late Charlie Banacos. For those not familiar with him, although he was a pianist, his students played a variety of...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Miles and the Lydian Chromatic Concept (NOTE: Unlike YouTube, the above video contains the complete lesson) In this lesson I introduce you to an alternative system of using scales for jazz improvisation. And it just so happens that Miles Davis was busy studying and...
