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• YOUR questions : General Jazz Guitar Stuff
• On the gig or in rehearsal...
• Memorable Concert
• Jam Session : anecdotes, jokes and "etiquette"
• YOUR Jazz Guitar Music : share your mp3s, your website ...
• YOUR Jazz Guitar Pictures
• Your Favorite Jazz Guitarists
• Your Favorite Jazz Guitar Albums
• Jazz Guitar Books : Reviews + YOUR suggestions
• Jazz Guitar Tips : Top Five + YOUR own tips
• Jazz Guitar Standards : share your own chord melody
• Jazz Guitar Gear : share you rig, issues or ask a question

Lessons

Videos - All the video lessons are indexed on this page.

• Learn the Fretboard - Sparkeo Course


• Major Scale
• Melodic Minor Scale
• Harmonic Minor Scale


• Diagonal Technique for Jazz Guitar Scales
• Jazz Scales : Which ones to use? (3 basic choices)


• Jazz Improvisation #1 : with Scales
• Jazz Improvisation #2 : with Arpeggios
• Jazz Improvisation #3 : with Chord Tones
• Jazz Improvisation : Generating Ideas (how NOT to sound like scales)


• The Chromatic Scale


• Jazz Guitar Licks : Blues and II-V's
• Jazz Guitar Licks for II-V's
• More Licks on Minor II-V's


• Positions -1- Control the Universe
• Positions -2- Must-Know Positions for Jazz Guitar
• Positions -3- Connecting
• Positions -4- Complete Arps
• Positions -5- Triads and Seventh Chords
• Positions -6- *Addendum* (Cycle of Fourths)


• Jazz Guitar Transcriptions (collection of great solos)


• Jazz Chord Cycles : All Keys
• Jazz Chord Cycles : Diatonic


• Advanced Bebop Scales Exercises
• Lee Konitz : Ten-Step Method for Jazz Improvisation
• Jazz Performance Ear Training

• Jazz Guitar Chord Chart #1
• Jazz Guitar Chord Chart #2
• More Chords : Chords in Scales


• Chords Warmup (the Big Five)


• Chord Progressions #1
• Chord Progressions #2
• Chord Progressions #3


• The No Nonsense Guide to Jazz Harmony - Part 1
• The No Nonsense Guide - Part 2
• The No Nonsense Guide - Part 3


• Chord Melody
• Chord Substitutions

• Five Important Jazz Blues Progressions
• Jazz Guitar Blues : Comping (video + PDF with TABS)
• Jazz Guitar Blues : Improvisation (video + PDF with TABS)
• Top 50 list : Blues Tunes to Learn

• How to Practice
• Jazz Guitar Tips
• Jazz Jam Session Etiquette


• A short history of Harmony


• Transcribing (how-to)


• Dominant Chords : Introduction
• Dominant Chords : The Basic Sound of Mixolydian
• Dominant Chords : Myxolydian b13
• Dominant Chords : Myxolydian #11
• Dominant Chords : Myxolydian b13 b9
• Dominant Chords : The Altered Scale

• Synching Picking Strokes with Beats
• Technique Level Required for Jazz
• The Pinky Finger
• Putting it all together


• All keys on the guitar?
• Bebop Scales on Various Modes
• Improvisation : using chord tones ... or ... using scales?
• Altered Scale Choices for Dominant 7ths
• Leading Tones on "How Insensitive"
• Diminished Scale : Using Whole-Half and Half-Whole Scales


• Adding Interest to Comping Using the Alan Kingstone Book : The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar
• William Leavitt Modern Method for Guitar / Reading / Positions
• Guide-Tones in Foward Motion
• Garzone Triads : The Triadic Chromatic Approach


• Practicing for Glitch-Free Performance
• How to Maintain Transcribed Jazz Vocabulary
• Learning Jazz Standards
• Jazz Standards : Hearing/transcribing melody and chords from recordings


• Very Fast Tempos
• Blues Lines : Over Jazz Standards?
• How to get "THE" jazz sound?
• Rhythmn Patterns for duo/trio
• Jazz Phrasing for Guitar

Standard Songs

Barry Galbraith ORIGINAL Chord Melody Arrangements of Standards

All the Things You Are
Autumn Leaves
Blue in Green
Body and Soul
Giant Steps
I Fall In Love Too Easily
Just Friends
Misty
My Funny Valentine
Oleo
Stella by Starlight
Summertime
Take the "A" Train
Tenor Madness
Yesterdays
What Is This Thing Called Love

Jazz Guitar Legends (Bio, Gear and Transcriptions)

Charlie Christian
Django Reinhardt
Ed Bickert
George Benson
Grant Green
Jim Hall
Joe Pass
John Scofield
Lenny Breau
Pat Martino
Pat Metheny
Tal Farlow

Wes Montgomery

Jazz Guitar Books

Chords by the Root

The Type-Z Guide to Success
A Modern Method for Guitar
Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary
The Advancing Guitarist
Barry Galbraith Jazz Guitar Study Series
The Barry Harris Workshop Video
The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar
Forward Motion
Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony