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Synching Picking Strokes with Beats 
Hi Mark!

Your'e such a wonderful teacher, I learned a hell of a lot from your youtube clips. Just a lot more accessible than almost all of the other ...

How to Maintain
Transcribed Jazz Vocabulary 
Hi Marc,

Thank you so much for dedicating your time for others and help share your experience in studying jazz, cuz sometimes the learning curve does ...

Playing Jazz using Chord Notes versus Scales 
Hi Marc,

I've conversed with a well known studio musician (late '50s through early 70s) in Hollywood. He was on the very high list of studio bass players ...

Choosing Altered Scales for Dominant 7th 
Hello Marc from Erie, Pa.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

I’ve been working on altered 7th scales. My question is while you are improvising ...

Technique level? 
Hello,

I'm an advanced rock player interested in learning jazz. I notice a lot of people never bother much about technique, speed, etc. I find that ...

Very Fast Tempos 
Hi from France and thanks for sharing.

I've been playing as a professional musician for 20 years now and it's still very hard for me to play up tempos ...

Blues Lines over Standards 
Hi Marc,

Just found your site. Very informative. Great video clips.

My question is about your "blues" scales video when playing a straight blues....

Position Shifting and Scale Shape Choices in Soloing 
Hello Marc-Andre,

Thank you for your jazz guitar educational web site effort and clear ideas presented. If you have a spare minute (or two!) can you ...

How do I get "THE" jazz sound ? 
I just got a Ibanez AF75D hoping to finally find that jazz sound. I plugged the AF up to my Peavey Windsor Studio expecting a miracle I guess but all I ...

Jazz Guitar : Guide-Tones in Forward Motion 
Many thanks to Marc-Andre for creation of this website! :)


I have learned all of the basic scales - Major modes, Harmonic Minor, Diminished, etc and ...

The Left Hand Pinky Finger 
I have a problem with my left hand "pinky" finger. When I play single lines or chords on the top strings, I always have my "pinky" sticking up in the air....

Learning Jazz Standards 
First of all, thank you Marc-Andre, for this website.

I am trying to learn a repertoire of standards, as I think it is essential part of being a jazz ...

Diminished Scale : Using Whole-Half and Half-Whole Scales 
What chords do the half whole and whole half scales work over.

If I improvise using the major, minor, harmonic minor or melodic minor scale, it sounds ...

William Leavitt Modern Method for Guitar / Reading / Positions  Not rated yet
Hello,

My question concerns above mentioned Method. The Leavitt books focus on how to get the student learn sight-reading.

The chords are presented ...

Stagnation  Not rated yet
Dear Sir!

I've been playing reggae music for over 30 years. I never studied the guitar. I pretty much learnt a few chords, a few words, formed a band ...

More advanced ...   Not rated yet
I really like your site. I'm a player of 50 plus years and I'm still learning stuff from your site.

Request> Have one advanced idea a month/week.

I'...

Technique and Routine  Not rated yet
Hi,

I can't find good technique exercises other than transcribing solos. What can you recommend?

I also wanted to know if you have a practicing ...

Leading Tones  Not rated yet
Hello Mark,

In your first lesson you explained that with II-VI-I's you can take the 7th and 3rd of each chord and the 3rd will resolve to ...

Minor Harmony Clarification  Not rated yet
Hello Marc-André,

In your (excellent) lesson on chord progressions, when getting to minor harmony , you write the following:

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Let'...

Putting it all together  Not rated yet
When I was in high school (over thirty years ago) I damaged my pinky and ring fingers playing football.

Since the '70's these two fingers have acted ...

Jazz Phrasing for Guitar  Not rated yet
Hi, really getting a lot from your website, your a good teacher :-) One thing that i'm struggling to find on the net is lessons on jazz phrasing.

Say ...

Adding Interest to Comping Using the Alan Kingstone Book : The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar  Not rated yet
(View my review of this book here )
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Hi Marc-Andre,

On your site you specifically say that your comping has radically improved/changed since you ...

Gear for Playing Jazz  Not rated yet
I'm wondering what gear you use to play jazz and what type of sound you are trying to achieve? -thanks

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Hello Chris,

Good question. I'm trying ...