Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from Jazz Guitar Guide. One of the best ways to improve your jazz guitar playing is to work on one concept at a time - until you've really got it. That's why each issue of Jazz Guitar Weekly brings you one chord shape and one improvisation tip — clear, simple, and ready to play. For downloadable handouts and video walkthroughs, click here. Here's what's inside: This week's Chord of the Week: a simple Gmaj7 shell voicing you'll use constantly How...
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Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from Jazz Guitar Guide. One of the best ways to improve your jazz guitar playing is to work on one concept at a time - until you've really got it. For downloadable handouts and video lessons, click here. That's why 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: 🎸 This week's Chord of the Week: a simple D7 shell voicing you can move anywhere on the...
15 days ago • 3 min read
Free Lessons Every Monday Hi Reader, It’s Kyle from Jazz Guitar Guide. One of the best ways to improve your jazz guitar playing is to work on one concept at a time - until you've really got it. That's why 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 simple trick for getting to your chords faster How to train your fingers to land together instead of one at a time A three-note minor 7 shell...
22 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: Why “learning more theory” usually isn’t the real problem How 5 simple shapes can make scales, chords, and arpeggios easier to use Album of the Week: Grant Green The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark Jazz Guitar Shortcut One of the most common comments I get when new students email me is that “I need to learn more theory.”...
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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…...
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 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...
2 months 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...
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: • 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...
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 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...
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