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Altered Scale Guitar: 7 Lines and 7 Positions Over G7
G altered from the inside: the seven chords hiding in the scale, a ii V I line built on each one, and all seven…
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Jazz Chord Substitutions on Guitar: Turn C and F Into Lush Changes
Start with C to F and upgrade it one step at a time: the ii chord, secondary dominants, diminished chords, the tritone sub and…
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How to Practice Scales on Guitar: 4 Steps From Sound to Music
Hear every note against the root, map seven positions with three techniques, play intervals in time, then make music with it. All in F…
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9 ii V I Jazz Guitar Licks and How to Mix Them Into Your Own
Nine ii V I lines in C, from diminished and altered sounds to 7-to-3 resolutions, plus how to split, mix and sing them until…
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Rhythm Changes Guitar: 8 Exercises to Solo Over the Form
Five zoomed-in exercises to spell every chord, and three zoomed-out ones to hear the whole A section as one big sound, all in B…
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Metronome Practice Guitar: Make the Click Sound Like a Band
Treat the metronome like a band, then work every subdivision from quarter notes to 32nds: sing it, play it on one string, put it…
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Jazz Guitar Improvisation: 8 Steps to Solo Over Any Standard
Zoom out to the key, map the centers, learn the melody, find the anchor points, then build up from triads to 7ths to chromatic…
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Jazz Blues Guitar Solo: Trade Choruses in F, One Idea at a Time
Give every 12-bar chorus one concept, like triads, octaves, ii-Vs or a reharm, and trade solos with me over a blues in F.
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Guitar Techniques: Alternate Picking, Legato and the Mix of Both
Three ways to move notes on guitar, each with its own sound, plus the slow metronome drills that build them one morning at a…
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Major Pentatonic Scale Guitar: The Five Notes I Ignored Too Long
Sing it, play it on one string, find it inside the shape you already know, then solo with lines and double stops over two…
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John Mayer Pentatonic: 3 Sounds From the Box You Already Know
Get minor, major and blues colors from one A minor pentatonic box, and shift between minor and major the way BB King, Albert King…
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Autumn Leaves Guitar: Chords, Melody and an Easy Chord Melody
Learn the key, the shell chords and the 3-to-7 melody of Autumn Leaves, then play a simple chord melody by switching between the melody…
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5 licks that work over any blues
One lick each from B.B. King, Clapton, Derek Trucks, Stevie Ray Vaughan and John Mayer. Free from Rotem.