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
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 scale which is used primarily over diminished 7th chords,...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Pentatonics
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 to show you 2 four measure phrases exclusively using...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Pentatonics
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? Well, I’ve got some interesting news for you....
by Richie Zellon | 4 bar Rhythm Changes phrases, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Pentatonics
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 incorporating chromatic passing tones. To conclude, I show...
