Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, Welcome to Jazz Guitar Weekly - with a quick tips you can use to put to work in your jazz guitar playing today. Here's what's inside: • A simple trick to double your chord vocabulary• How to improve without long practice sessions• A simple system that actually fits into your day Jazz Guitar Shortcut One of the easiest ways to improve your chord vocabulary is to get more mileage out of the chords you already know. For the next couple of weeks, we’ll look at...
8 days ago • 2 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, Welcome to Jazz Guitar Weekly - with a quick tips you can use to put to work in your jazz guitar playing today. Here's what's inside: The easiest jazz guitar chords to start with Simple shapes you can move anywhere on the neck How to play common progressions without overthinking Jazz Guitar Shortcut The ii V I is one of the most important progressions in jazz, and you’re going to end up playing a lot of them. They’re an essential turnaround that gets used...
22 days ago • 2 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, Welcome to Jazz Guitar Weekly - with a quick tips you can use to put to work in your jazz guitar playing today. Here's what's inside: The problem with “horn player” thinking How 5 shapes map the fretboard Finding the closest arpeggio every time Using CAGED for chords, scales, and arpeggios Jazz Guitar Shortcut One of the trickiest things is connecting arpeggios in your solos. Most of the time, guitar players try to learn this in a very non-guitar centric...
28 days ago • 2 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, Welcome to Jazz Guitar Weekly - with a quick tips you can use to put to work in your jazz guitar playing today. Here's what's inside: Why overthinking chord theory can slow down your jazz guitar progress How learning practical chord grips teaches you the theory automatically The simple trick for connecting chord tones smoothly on the fretboard Jazz Guitar Shortcut Jazz guitar players love to get caught up in the music theory, especially when it comes to...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, Welcome to Jazz Guitar Weekly - with a quick tips you can use to put to work in your jazz guitar playing today. Here's what's inside: Why practicing painfully slow helps you learn faster and retain more When watching TV while practicing actually makes sense (and when it doesn’t) A simple way to stay “gig-ready” during busy weeks Jazz Guitar Shortcut With how much jazz guitar material is out there, it’s easy to fall into the trap of trying to get through as...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, Welcome to Jazz Guitar Weekly - with a quick tips you can use to put to work in your jazz guitar playing today. Here's what's inside: The biggest mistake players make once it’s solo time Three simple improvisation “wins” that work immediately An easy way to improve your rhythms without extra practice Jazz Guitar Shortcut One of the most common roadblocks people run into when it’s time to improvise a solo is simply not knowing what to play. When all you’re...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, Welcome to Jazz Guitar Weekly - with a quick tips you can use to put to work in your jazz guitar playing today. Here's what's inside: The idea of “grips” and why Joe Pass emphasized them How small chord movements create instant sophistication A simple way to level up Dm7 (or any chord) comping Jazz Guitar Shortcut When I work with students who are trying to improve their comping, one of the things they usually ask for is more—or better—comping rhythms. And...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, Welcome to Jazz Guitar Weekly - with a quick tips you can use to put to work in your jazz guitar playing today. Here's what's inside: Why jazz guitar chords feel harder than they really are How pros think about chord shapes (without fancy labels) How to use these chords in tunes, ii-V-I’s, and real music Jazz Guitar Shortcut One thing I notice a lot with jazz guitar players, especially people who feel like they’re getting into jazz late, is this feeling...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, Welcome to Jazz Guitar Weekly - with a quick tips you can use to put to work in your jazz guitar playing today. Here's what's inside: Why long, exhausting practice sessions aren’t necessary My “Morning Coffee” jazz guitar practice routine The 3 core skills every jazz guitarist should focus on Why focus, habit, and repetition matter more than time Jazz Guitar Shortcut It’s easy to get caught up thinking you need to spend hours practicing to get good at jazz...
4 months ago • 3 min read