Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from Jazz Guitar Guide. Each issue of Jazz Guitar Weekly brings you one chord shape and one improvisation tip — clear, simple, and ready to play. Here's what's inside: 🎸 A rootless D7♯5♭9 voicing that adds instant tension and moves beautifully through minor ii–V–I progressions 🧠 An altered scale improv cell that gives you root, 3rd, 7th and all the spicy tensions (♭5, ♯5, ♭9, ♯9) in one shape 🎯 A voice-led progression you can steal and reuse—plus...
7 days ago • 3 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from Jazz Guitar Guide. Each issue of Jazz Guitar Weekly brings you one chord shape and one improvisation tip — clear, simple, and ready to play. Here's what's inside: The minor 7♭5 chord voicing you can move into any key — no overthinking, just root-and-go Why two chord symbols (m7♭5 vs. ø7) exist for the exact same thing — and how to instantly decode both A one-octave Locrian scale pattern that lets you start soloing over half-diminished chords...
14 days ago • 4 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from Jazz Guitar Guide. Each issue of Jazz Guitar Weekly brings you one chord shape and one improvisation tip — clear, simple, and ready to play. Here's what's inside: D7#9 voicing built off the 2nd string Why it works as a substitution over any V7 chord Voice-leading into Gmaj7 A soloing idea using the altered scale A picking pattern that blends alternate and sweep picking Chord of the Week This week’s chord is a D7#9 — and it’s a rootless...
21 days ago • 3 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from Jazz Guitar Guide. Each issue of Jazz Guitar Weekly brings you one chord shape and one improvisation tip — clear, simple, and ready to play. Here's what's inside: The Gmaj7(#11) voicing that sounds advanced — but feels surprisingly easy under your fingers How to use one shape to comp in any key (as long as you know your 6th-string roots) A slick 2-5-1 with almost no hand movement — and a ton of color The arpeggio pattern that shows how...
28 days ago • 3 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from Jazz Guitar Guide. Each issue of Jazz Guitar Weekly brings you one chord shape and one improvisation tip — clear, simple, and ready to play. Here's what's inside: A root-on-2nd-string Dm7 chord you can move anywhere How to voice-lead up the neck in a ii–V–I progression A Dorian scale cell that lives on strings 1–3 A short lick that turns the scale into real music A ii–V–I line that uses both the chord and the cell Chord of the Week This...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from jazzguitarguide. Each issue of Jazz Guitar Weekly brings you one chord shape and one improvisation tip — clear, simple, and ready to play. Here's what's inside: A rootless G7♭9 voicing that sounds great in any ii–V–I A slick arpeggio with built-in picking patterns for speed and clarity Voice leading tips that make your chord transitions feel effortless One easy tweak to add tension over any dominant chord Chord of the Week: Rootless G7b9...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from jazzguitarguide.com. Each issue of Jazz Guitar Weekly brings you one chord shape and one improvisation tip — clear, simple, and ready to play. Here's what's inside: Chord of the Week: A smooth and colorful C Major 13 (rootless voicing)—perfect for jazz standards and adding richness to your chords. Easy ii–V–I Progression: How to build smooth chord transitions without complicated finger moves. Quick Arpeggio Lesson: A melodic arpeggio to...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from jazzguitarguide.com. Here’s what we’re going to cover in this week’s lesson: The Dm9 shape I use the most A look at how it works on other string sets A ii-V-I using Dm9, G9, and Cmaj9 A Dm9 arpeggio that lines up with the voicing A short ii-V-I line built from the arpeggio Chord of the Week The chord this week is a D minor 9 (Dm9), a versatile chord that I frequently use in my day-to-day playing. Here's how it's constructed: Chord tones:...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from jazzguitarguide.com. Here’s what we’re going to cover in this week’s lesson: How to Play the G9 Voicing Soloing with the G9 Arpeggio Using hammer-ons and pull-offs for legato playing ii V I chords and lines Chord of the Week This week's chord is a G9, built with the 3rd on the bottom, then the flat 7th, the 9th, and the 5th—low to high. The finger pattern is simple: Pointer finger plays the 3rd on the 5th string Ring finger plays the flat...
2 months ago • 3 min read