In this series of lessons, you'll learn all the essentials of rhythm guitar, timing, phrasing, licks, and concepts to play jazz blues as a guitar duo... or in any other type of duo or band situation.

In this tutorial I'll introduce you to a really cool style of guitar playing that most people refer to as "Country-Blues Fingerstyle" or "Ragtime Guitar". Old school players like Blind Blake and Reverend Gary Davis developed and used this style of playing, inspired by Scott Joplin's ragtime piano playing with stride and honky-tonk elements. Jorma Kaukonen (of Jefferson Airplane fame) is flue...

In this tutorial we will learn a more advanced version of 'Take Me Out To The Ball Game', the classic American tune about baseball in a jazz chord melody style.

In addition to learning about how fingerstyle jazz works as far as the right hand is concerned, you will also learn many advanced chord shapes such as M7, min 7, aug 5, flat 5, 9th, 11th, 13th, etc.

Chord Melody style guitar playing is playing a solo arrangement of a tune by playing the melody, some supporting bass notes and, or chords all at the same time. In this tutorial I use the old jazz standard "St. Louis Blues" to demonstrate how to create a chord melody style arrangement. We will by breaking it down into a simple melody, and then building it back up into a full solo jazz guitar chord...

In this third tutorial we are going to take another cue from the great Joe Pass, Jazz Guitar Giant! We will look at orchestrating ala Joe Pass by using jazz guitar Drop 2 Chord Voicings and Walking Basslines. We will use this technique to cover the fretboard with jazzy dominant 7th chords!

Chord Melody style guitar playing is playing a solo arrangement of a tune by playing the melody, some supporting bass notes and, or chords all at the same time. In this tutorial I use the old jazz standard "After You've Gone" to demonstrate how to create a chord melody style arrangement. We will by breaking it down into a simple melody, and then building it back up into a full solo jazz guitar c...

This tutorial is in the key of G and is a blues based turnaround. You will earn that a blues turnaround is made of dominant 7th chords and you will learn how to connect each chord with a walking bass line.

These are the lessons I created for Gibson-Epiphone when they gave me the Joe Pass model Emperor II guitar you see in the videos. I created these lessons in order to give interested students a brief overview and intro to the art of playing jazz on the guitar. This is an expanded and more comprehensive version of my earlier tutorials on how to approach the art of jazz guitar in the style of Joe...

An arpeggio is a phrase of single notes outlining a chord type. This tutorial includes some examples of arpeggios played as short chord phrases. The melody notes or top notes of each chord outlines an arpeggio. In some of the examples it starts with an arpeggio and resolves by using notes of the scale. I would recommend you pick out the top notes of each chord and learn that as a single line. ...

This week on the Guitar Tricks Channel, instructor Anders Mouridsen locks Neal up and takes over the studio to show you how to jazz up your lead playing. If you listen real close, you can hear Neal's cries for help.

Here we are starting to put things together and shall give some inspiration and ideas to create some jazzy lines which sound great. Last but not least this is what it is all about in jazz and gypsy jazz guitar. Below you find a track where you can practice this lesson here.

This is the same 12 bars blues played at a higher tempo. Thanks for watching - email me any questions related to this tutorial and I'll answer you the best I can! Gavin Audagnotti

Here are seven basic jazz positions that you can use anywhere on the fretboard. Shown using both the fifth and sixth strings as the root note. The seven different positions are: Major 7 Minor 7 Dominant 7 Diminished 7 Minor 7 Flat 5 Augmented Dominant 7 Aug 9 The most important are the first three, Major, Minor and Dominant. The basic way to use these different positions is to find ...

This lick mixes a Country Feel with Jazz 1/2 tones. Half Tones to me, are flat or sharp notes from where the "scale" tells you to go. This video demonstrates how to fuse country and jazz to get a NEW and unique style. The first note in this lick is the down beat (the one). These would be called sixteenth notes beacause there are sixteen notes in a count of four beats.