Reading Rhythms for Jazz Guitar If you have ever wondered how to go about learning to read rhythms, you have come to the right place! In this Reading Rhythms 101 lesson, we will teach you the basics of how to read rhythms and show you how it can...
It's about getting the right DEFINITIONS to start with! Chord voicings are a specific arrangement of the notes of a chord. The most basic jazz guitar chord voicings are called Drop 2 and Drop 3. This blog post accompanies the video above. In...
Steady Musical Growth and "jazz performance ear training" Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of learning to make music is the training of the ears. Ear training. Working on (and achieving) good listening / hearing is seldom discussed... but make...
We've compiled all of our weekly album picks into two playlists for your listening ease.
How not to sound like a textbook when you're soloing You can get started creating your own melodic lines with simple scales and arpeggios immediately. It is so often understood in jazz improvisation that we are to play the "right" notes over...
Through this website, I get asked what type of amps, guitar, pedals (and even string gauges) I use on a daily basis. So here's the page where I'm listing all the equipment I play with as part of my regular jazz guitar gear. I don't always bring...
