GuitarHabits.com Free Jazz Guitar Lessons on Chords and Soloing by Tony Oreshko Section 2 - Jazz Soloing Lesson 1 - ArpeggiosLesson 2 - Using Arpeggios in a BluesLesson 3 - Using Arpeggios over Minor ChordsLesson 4 - Diminished 7th Arpeggios Lesson 5 - Diminished 7th Arpeggios over Dominant Chords Lesson 6 - Arpeggios over a Minor Blues Lesson 7 - Lower Auxiliary Notes Lesson 8 - Upper Auxiliary Notes NEW! - Jazz Guitar Books and CDs Browse our new online store. Click on a category below: Jazz Guitar Instruction Books Jazz Guitar CDs Your Jazz Guitar Questions Answered Here are a number of articles written in response to questions sent in by readers: Lesson - Gypsy Jazz Guitar Chords and Arpeggios Lesson - Melodic, Harmonic and Dorian Minor ScalesLesson - Gypsy Jazz Guitar Left Hand FingeringLesson - Voice Leading in Jazz Chord Progressions NEW! This feature has proved very popular, so here's a brand new batch of answers to questions sent in by readers over the past months. And even more jazz questions and answers... Section 3 - Jazz Scales - Coming eventually!
Jazzgitarre24 The 23 Essential Guitar Arpeggios to Get Smooth Photo by Benjamin Deutsch Arpeggios are often used for sweep picking also referred as economy picking (different from alternate picking). It is a technique that creates a fast and fluid sound. Frank Gambale, Yngwie Malmsteen among others are experts in this field. So if you like to show off or just create incredible sounds on your guitar try arpeggio sweep picking. Besides using it for fast playing, I really like to use it as a handy tool for improvisation. If you don’t want to sound like you are playing scales all the time then you can use arpeggios as an extra ingredient to spice things up with a really nice flavor. When using arpeggios in improvisation play them occasionally, try to play parts and pieces or play random notes of an arpeggio to create cool sounding licks. Tip1: Not only play arpeggios but use them in your improvisation. Here are the 23 essentials that can really open up your playing and improvisation skills. Have fun and work hard.
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6 Cool Guitar Blues Turn Arounds in the key of E Photo by Steve Garry A good blues turnaround is the icing on the cake of every blues progression. I always beg, borrow, steal and create my own nice sweet sounding turnarounds to add that extra magic when I’m playing a blues song. It’s one of the things that makes the blues sound so cool. Blues turnarounds are played at the end of a section of a blues progression which then leads to the next section or the end of the song. To get a good impression of how turnarounds are played listen to blues guitar players like B.B King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton and study theirs. Tip: Every time you play the blues try to play a different turnaround, so you don’t end up playing the same turnaround ten years from now. Enjoy these 6 turnarounds to spice up your blues: Have a great one!
12 Essential Blues Turnarounds by Andy Ellis Are your blues a little tired? Crave some fresh sounds? Nothing rejuvenates a 12-bar groove faster than a fancy turnaround, and we’ve got a dozen of them in this guitar lesson. You can use these moves onstage tonight or at your next jam session. Guitar Lesson Click here to download the power tab for this guitar lesson. Form and Function First, a definition: A turnaround is a short (typically two-bar) passage at the end of a blues progression that’s designed to elegantly walk you to the V7, which in turn resolves to the I7 in bar 1. Contrary Motion A turnaround derives its energy from tension and release. Take a close look at the intervals in bar 1’s second, third, and fourth beats. Contrary motion also powers Ex. 2. You don’t have to arpeggiate the intervals. Contractions Many turnarounds feature a moving line against a repeated, static note. Such analysis also lets you compare one turnaround to another.
On-Line Piano Lessons 10 Completely Brilliant Guitar Tuition Sites I’ve spent many hours either watching guitar video lessons or reading guitar blog posts and have created a list of the places I keep going back to again and again. Whether you are a learner, intermediate or advanced guitar player there’s something for everyone here. Guitar Jamz Marty Schwartz produces amazing guitar tutorials and tips videos for both electric and acoustic guitars. Check out his acoustic blues lesson below: …as well as this electric guitar lesson showing how to play Enter Sandman. Here are Marty’s two YouTube channels: Matt’s Guitar Lessons This small (ish) site offers an excellent selection of video guitar lessons showing how to play popular songs and some general improvisational tips. For a flat fee you can buy access to the whole download section and get over 35 hours worth of tutorials, which is pretty good value for money in my book. For examples check out this fantastic free video guitar lesson showing how to play Led Zeppelin’s ‘Bron-Yr-Aur’: Matt’s Guitar Lessons:
How To Practice Arpeggios On Guitar - Part 2 by Simon Candy In this video, you learn the one exercise that’ll bridge the gap from playing up and down arpeggios to actually using them to create beautiful melodic guitar solos. This is a continuation of an earlier guitar arpeggio video lesson that I highly recommend you check out first before tackling this one. An arpeggio is when you target specific notes within a chord, known as chord tones. Like a scale, it creates a pattern on the fretboard that you can then visualise and use to create melodies and solos. Because an arpeggio is specific to a particular chord, you will need to change arpeggios every time the chord changes. That’s A LOT to think about in a very short amount of time. In this lesson, you learn the only exercise you will ever need in order to master arpeggios. You can learn more arpeggios shapes. You can play up and down them all day long. You can switch between them when the pressure is not on, and you have all the time in the world. Watch the video below to learn more: Dm7
Major and minor piano chords Piano chords, or any chord for that matter, are formed by combining two or more scale tones (notes). You now know the tones (notes) that comprise all 12 major scales and you can play these scales smoothly (not necessarily quickly…yet!). It is now time to apply this knowledge and begin combining the scale tones to form chords. You may also see this referred to as combining two or more intervals (if you are not familiar with this term go to major scales for an explanation). As the name implies a triad is composed of 3 notes from the major scale. If you lower the 3rd tone one half step it becomes a minor triad. So, based upon this a C minor chord would consist of the notes C, Eb, and G. Now, when you practice these major chords, I recommend you form them using the 1st, 3rd, and 5th fingers of your right hand. This virtual piano keyboard requires <a href=" target="_blank">JavaScript</a>. Tempo:autoplayaudio