by Richie Zellon | Comping, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Pentatonics
McCoy Tyner Jazz Guitar Lesson Tribute Transcribed from Video: This is a special tribute lesson to McCoy Tyner, a very influential jazz pianist who I was sad to learn passed away on March 6, 2020. For those guitarists who are new to jazz or not familiar with this...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Pentatonics
Jazzify Your Rock Solos This lesson is specially dedicated to all those of you who are actively Rock players and would like to use a jazzier approach during your solos without sounding totally out of context. That is, you don’t want to play the same straight...
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 | 4 bar Rhythm Changes phrases, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Pentatonics
How to Solo Over Rhythm Changes Using Pentatonics | Part 2 In PART 2 of “How to Solo over Rhythm Changes using Pentatonics”, I demonstrate a simple yet effective way to jazz up both the minor and major varieties of this scale. This procedure consists of...
