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How To Embellish Jazz Chords With Beautiful Chromaticism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV-7E3RqWKo&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcFlPDFVtkHSw9VQdAfn176E&index=2&t=0s

In this video I am going to go over some example of how you can add chromatic passages to your chords in a few different ways: in the melody, as inner-voice movement, and as complete chromatic passing chords. Hope you like it!

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15 Minor II V I - Beautiful Jazz Chords You Need To Know

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NExMwhsd3CA&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcHYyZp5sT0k3Zx8MSWfDXHd&index=9&t=0s 

 Having good Jazz Chords for a minor II V I can be difficult. This progression is much more complicated than it's Major counterpart.  At the same time, it is a really beautiful progression with the rich tonic minor chords and altered dominants.

In this video, I am going to go over 15 sets of jazz chords for a minor II V I in D minor, and there are some solid ideas to take over with the extensions, the melodies and also some inner-voice movement that sounds fantastic on this progression.

Hope you like it!

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How To Make A Set Of Solid Jazz Chords on Autumn Leaves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpX7rSn4h24&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcFgp6um_vcEOFDqi5RW1wHl&index=11&t=0s 

 You need to play the chords and you also need to improvise and play some great Riffs when you are comping. This video builds a set of Autumn Leaves Chords that connects different Jazz Chords to give you something you can use to improvise with. 

Hope you like it!

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💥 Really Proud to Announce my new book: Advanced Jazz Guitar Concepts! 🙂 https://geni.us/advancedjazz Great to finally share this with you. This book covers a lot of ground with stuff that is not seen so often. (If you are in the US you can get an Amazon Prime Day Discount as well)

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Drop2 Voicings - How to Understand The Construction

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxTdnBn7ljQ&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcFsxcEv8Gh1iM1zvkQoqcFc&index=12&t=0s 

 Drop Voicings like Drop 2 and Drop 3 are very common in Jazz, and as a Jazz guitarist, you want to know and use them in your comping and chord melody arrangements. Especially Drop 2 voicings are very common in the playing of Wes Montgomery, George Benson, and many others. 

In this video, I am going to break down how these terms work and how to construct drop voicings so that you have a better understanding of the voicing technique and can create your own drop voicings.

Hope you like it!

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How To Add Bebop Embellishments To Your Licks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZeZe1X5fsc&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcHgRn1uiZJfW9gmBBhK_RXc&index=9&t=0s 

 Bebop is famous for having solos of long 8th note lines and bebop licks are often a lot of notes. But an important part of what makes the lines really beautiful and breaks up the constant flow of 8th notes. In this video, I am going to go over some great lines from Bebop Masters like Dexter Gordon, Clifford Brown and Sonny Stitt. The way they use embellishments and construct lines is a great resource for learning and enhancing your own playing. Hope you like it!

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Do this Every Time you learn a new Jazz Chord

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLe8zMf_Yoc&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcH6zN85I0bmDybzu1QuuiR7&index=2&t=0s

You need to check out a lot of different jazz chords and voicings when you want to learn Jazz, and you need them for comping and for chord melody arrangements. 

 In this lesson, I am going to show you some techniques that can really help you get more out of your voicings so that you don't have to spend too much time practicing chords and help you use one voicing that you already know to create a ton of other chords that you then don't need to practice as much.

Hope you like it!

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Why Reharmonization Is For You And How To Get Started 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COrOChRZnz8&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcHUFn2Mf5mB7Sr1eeAtjFYz&index=17&t=0s 

I guess you didn't realize you needed reharmonization 🙂 But you should check out the options that it gives you in solos and arrangements.

Hope you like it!

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How to Improve your vocabulary of Jazz Rhythms 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWfj_EjHq9M&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcHv-UKuCHt3CEZGEgdJ49Vj&index=9&t=0s 

 We don't often talk about is how rhythm is actually also a melody, and how to work on your vocabulary for jazz rhythm. But, of course, a very important part of playing jazz is interesting and great rhythms. In this video, I am going to go over some great examples of rhythms used in a jazz solo taken from Chet Baker, Kenny Burrel, and Jim Hall. I also discuss how you might want to work on improving this part of your own playing.

Hope you like it!

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3 Scale exercises You Need To Know And Use

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHRRiHsz40A&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcGy5Q-sazLbhodtRGCcC-CQ&index=13&t=0s 

 Any scale exercise is a melody. When you practice scale exercises you are practicing playing a lot of similar melodies that you want to have in your ears and in your fingers so you can use them when you improvise Jazz Solos. In Jazz, Scale exercises are a part of building vocabulary.

This video covers some great melodic structures that you can practice as scale exercises and add to your vocabulary. I find that them extremely useful and you will also hear them being used in a lot of especially more modern jazz solos by people ranging from Michael Brecker via Peter Bernstein to Kurt Rosenwinkel.

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How to Use the blues in a jazz solo

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaw3wice57U&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcH2dyCk6nzVns5luCUBvzja&index=12&t=0s 

 There is something special about the Jazz Blues Guitar sound and that type of phrasing! The blues is a very important part of Jazz, but it can be difficult to get those bluesy phrases to work on a jazz song, the way Joe Pass or George Benson do. 

Hope you like it!

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25 Jazz Guitar Exercises - How To Improve Skills In A Musical Way 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL4GugqJoho&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcHu-AkVdHea1Kturamaiiv7&index=2&t=0s 

 It is important that we practice and improve our technique, and often a good way to do this is to work on jazz guitar exercises like a phrase or musical fragment. In this video I am going to go over some technical topics you can work on and a few phrases to help you develop your technique. 

The format of this video is different from what I normally do and I'll explain later why that is and thought it could be a fun experiment. Let me know what you think!

Hope you like it!

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The Music Theory You Need to Focus on First 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uEdM11yJsA&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcGoH3S7EcR8gPyjtGydfviU&index=23&t=0s 

 Most of the time the one thing that holds you back from really understanding theory or using an idea on several different chords is a really simple part of what is going on. 

  Hope you like it!

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3 Great Ways To Use Arpeggios In A Solo 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOVU-DqV1Xk&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcGmFEa5n98zh0m46GcARyUh&index=6&t=0s

Arpeggios are one of the building blocks you need to have in your vocabulary. But using Arpeggios in a solo can be very difficult. They can be hard to use in a way that sounds like a natural melody and not an exercise. In this video, I am going to show analyze some great arpeggio from Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino phrases and talk about how you can use them in your own playing.

Hope you like it!

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Great And Simple Way To Make New Jazz Licks

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCIl68Iu_nk&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcFpoIE_ZZirjiWOp84yYbAS&index=13&t=0s

I think we all know how it is: You are improvising over a song and there is a place or one chord where you always feel like you are playing the Old Jazz Guitar Licks.

One of the ways that I go about finding some new material that I like is actually pretty simple and that is what I am going to show you in this Jazz Guitar Lesson.

Hope you like it!

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John Scofield - Some of the Greatest Double Time Lines I know

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1aldmam60I&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcEEfAQ05TvOSVHztnXGZi41&index=1 John Scofield is one of my favorite jazz-guitarists. In fact, he gets away with using an effect I don't like and I still love his playing! This video is on probably my favorite John Scofield solo. Hope you like it!

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This Is How You Should Use Scale Exercises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccTBv5lLmOc&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcFpoIE_ZZirjiWOp84yYbAS&index=12&t=0s

In this video, I am going to go over a few scale exercises that you probably already know or at least should check out and then I am going to talk about how to connect them to chords and really use them to make music. Hope you like it!