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...
11 days 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:...
23 days 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...
25 days 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: Chord of the week: C Major 9 How to play over a C major 9 chord I’m starting this series to give you something helpful every week—no strings attached. Just a quick tip or idea you can use right away to start sounding better on jazz guitar. Where this idea came from: Back in college, I was told I needed to "beef up my chord vocabulary." I needed more sounds coming...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read