Composed by Charles Mingus Tune's History Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is a popular standard originally recorded in 1959. It was composed by Charles Mingus and lyrics were later added by Joni Mitchell. Originally, Mingus had written the tune as a sort of...
Adding Parallel Motion to Your Chord Melody The goal of this series is to actually put a lick under your fingers. Here, there’s no more searching for ideas in the sea of jazz theory information. We’ll give stuff you need to play and be creative....
2017 has been a very special year for this website: we shifted gears and fulfilled our promise to do "more of the same". The store portion of the website has, of course, seen a consistent Tune of the Month being released every single month. But...
How to Manipulate Time Using Your Jazz Guitar! Welcome to volume three in our series, “Hands-On Jazz Guitar.” This new episode is all about “Warp Time Using Your Jazz Guitar.”
Our plan for the website before getting to work this past year was pretty straightforward: let's just do more of the same! That meant publishing more great blog posts, more video-lessons and more podcasts. In addition, we aimed each month to...
During their jazz journey, many guitarists will build a chord melody of their favorite jazz standard, making the song sound like their own. For those of you who are just discovering this concept, let's define what a chord melody is. A chord...
