by Richie Zellon | Lesson Resources, Music Education
If you had to create a list of your favorite jazz guitar albums but narrow it down to only 10 choices, which ones would you pick? Obviously I have no clue, but if like myself you’ve been listening to jazz guitar recordings for many years, I’m sure you...
by Richie Zellon | Basic Theory, Lesson Resources
Part 3: “How to incorporate your transcribed phrases in a solo” Here you can download the examples demonstrated in Part 3 : Joe Pass 1 Joe Pass 1 with “diminuition” Joe Pass 1 with “truncation” Joe Pass 1 with “modal...
by Richie Zellon | Basic Theory, Lesson Resources
Part 2: “Transcribing” versus “Writing” To Part 3: Procedure The following is a transcription of Part 2: I previously implied that learning a phrase and not playing it in the proper context within a piece of music, is not a good thing....
by Richie Zellon | Basic Theory, Lesson Resources
Below is the first of a 4-part video tutorial on “How to Expand Your Improvisational Vocabulary” using the Jazz Guitarist Signature Series. Part 1 is an introduction to the series and explains its goal and purpose. Part 2 is all about “transcribing” solos and also...
by Richie Zellon | Basic Theory, Lesson Resources
Overview Of Special Considerations… I- We must have a proper understanding of all the chord-scale relationships within the harmonic progression we wish to improvise over. In brief, this means we must understand the function of each note in a scale in...
by Richie Zellon | Basic Theory, Lesson Resources
Here is an easy system to learn all your major scales which is crucial if you want to understand music theory. I will assume that you already know that the music alphabet in English consists of the letters: A – B – C – D – E – F and G....
