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 better solos One of the best rhythm sections with Wes Montgomery Why your playing doesn’t sound right, even when you’ve got the right notes Jazz Guitar Shortcut It’s frustrating when you’re working on playing jazz, but your solos just don’t sound right. There’s something about your playing that just…...
17 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 surprisingly simple reason some students improve faster than others A practice challenge you can start this week A listening challenge to help you go deeper into jazz Jazz Guitar Shortcut I had this student once who was just kind of nuts. But in a good way. Skylar came to me as a complete beginner. And after a couple of...
25 days ago • 3 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: A simple shortcut for turning one chord grip into several new shapes Why jazz improvisation feels harder than it needs to 3 beginner-friendly wins to make soloing easier and more musical Jazz Guitar Shortcut Last week, we talked about how to convert “low voicings” into “high voicings” by moving a note from the 6th string to...
about 2 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: • 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...
about 2 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 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...
2 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 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...
2 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 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...
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 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...
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: 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...
5 months ago • 2 min read