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Download the Jazz Guitar Chords eBook and subscribe to our free newsletter called The Jazz Guitar Gazette. This newsletter is packed with guitar lessons, tips and tricks that will help you learn how to play jazz guitar.
Register yourself as a member of the Jazz Guitar Forum and join our community. The forum is the place to be for all your questions, feedback and friendly discussion.
Introduction to Jazz Blues Guitar eBook (printable) | 100 pages | guitar tabs, notation, audio & backing tracks
Learn to play jazz blues in the style of your favorite jazz guitarists with our Intro to Jazz Blues Guitar Course. Full of fun and informative lessons with audio and tab/notation, this course is designed to get you sounding like Wes, Kenny, Joe and other great jazz blues guitarists.
- Solo over the blues like your favorite players.
- Learn to comp and walk basslines over blues tunes.
- Break out of box patterns and “jazz up” your blues.
- Dozens of audio examples to make learning fun and easy.
Click here for more information (available the middle of April)...
The Jazz Guitar Gazette PremiumeBooks (printable) + online | tabs, notation, audio & backing tracks.
The lessons in our Premium members area are optimized to bring your jazz guitar playing to the next level in a fast, fun and easy way. Each week there's a new topic, here are some examples of past editions:
- How to Jazify your Blues playing.
- How to play in the style of Wes Montgomery.
- 25 Essential Bebop licks.
- How to improvise over All The Things You Are.
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30 Days to Better Jazz Guitar eBook (printable) | 83 pages | guitar tabs, notation
This eBook is designed to give you a well-balanced 30-day jazz-guitar work out, providing you with all of the tools you need to reach the next level in your playing. With enough follow up material to keep you busy for years, this book will improve your comping, soloing, ear training, sight reading and more, all while keeping things fun and focused in the practice room.
- Comprehensive approach that gets your playing to the next level.
- Easy to understand and fun lessons to improve your comping, soloing and tunes.
- Printable PDF format works with pcs, Macs, laptops and eReaders.
- Over 80 Pages of Lessons and Examples with Tab/Notation.
Our Free Guitar Lessons are the center of this website and cover a great variety of topics, for beginners as well as for the guitar pro. All lessons are illustrated with guitar tabs, traditional notation and audio, some have video as well.
Some lesson examples:
- How to use guitar scales in jazz.
- Advanced use of the pentatonic scale.
- How to play bebop, latin, blues guitar & Rhythm Changes.
- Arpeggios for Guitar.
- Guitar technique rxercises to develop speed and dexterity
- How to play jazz standards from the Real Book like Autumn Leaves, So What, Take Five, ...
- Video Guitar Lessons: Stella by Starlight, There Will Never Be Another You, ...
- Guitar lessons for beginners: How to Read Guitar Tabs, The Major Scale, How to Improvise a Guitar Solo.
- ...
The Licktionary is a collection of guitar riffs, licks and patterns in the style of over 45 master jazz guitar players such as Pat Metheny, George Benson, Bill Frisell, Django Reinhardt, John McLaughlin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Pass, Al Di Meola, Mike Stern, Les Paul, John Scofield, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, but also jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. It's the ultimate guitar lick collection to use as an inspiration for your guitar solos.
In our Jazz Guitar Chords section, we grouped all the basic guitar chords that are needed to play jazz music. For every chord type there is a free printable guitar chord chart.
You can also download the Basic Jazz Guitar Chord Book, a free ebook that groups all the basic jazz chords together with the music theory you need to know as a beginning jazz guitarist.
Other chord lessons:
- Jazz Chord Progressions
- Blues Guitar Chords
- How to Play Fingerstyle Walking Bass
- Guitar Chord Inversions
- Chord Substitutions
- Comping studies on popular jazz standards
- ...
In the Guitar Gear section you will learn how to get a jazz guitar sound and find answers to questions like:
- How do you choose amongst the range of available jazz guitars?
- What guitar amp should you buy?
- Do you need guitar effects?
- Are Fender guitars any good for jazz?
- What about guitar strings?
Find out how your favorite guitar player gets his signature sound:
- What kind of guitar amplifiers does Pat Metheny use?
- What type of Gibson guitar did Wes Montgomery play?
- How does George Benson get his sound?
- Did Charlie Christian use acoustic or electric guitars?
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