• Double Picking • Arpeggio Swaps
• 16 Bar Blues • Jazz Minor Scale
• Capo Trick for Bb • Two-Beat Feel Part 1
• Two-Beat Feel Part 2 • Jazz Guitar Ballads
This video is dedicated to the double-picking technique style. This concept involves picking each note of a lead or riff twice to produce a heavy driving picking effect.
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Arpeggio Swaps - Common Tone Use
Arpeggio tones (like chord tones) stack and can create other designs which can be swapped out against other chords.
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There's no sense in always playing nothing but the same old 12-Bar Blues progressions. Step into the world of the 16-Bar Blues and try a new blues format.
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Using the same scale tones from the Melodic Minor Scale, the Jazz Minor Scale retains the raised 6th and raised 7th scale degrees, both ascending and descending.
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What do you do when piano and horn players always want their blues and jazz jams in F, Ab and Eb? The solution is simple, just grab a capo and establish the key signature appropriately.
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Country Two Beat Feel - Part 1
Part One studies country rhythm guitar played in cut-time feel. The rhythm is a fast moving 2-beat groove that can be made to sound really cool by incorporating hybrid picking technique.
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Country Two Beat Feel - Part 2
In Part Two we examine a lead melody that incorporates a recurring pentatonic statement through the chord changes!
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How to Understand Jazz Guitar Ballads
Arranging / performing solo jazz guitar takes an understanding of harmony and theory. Chromatics, substitution and diminished ideas can make the job easier.
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