The Jazzy stuff (but good for every style!)

Melodic Development – How to make your solos more interesting

In this video I quickly explain how to take a basic idea and try to develop it…

major scale

Playing in Fourths

I really like this style of phrasing, take some great examples like McCoy Tyner, and a lot…

giant steps

Tips: play Giant Steps on guitar

Giant Steps has always been a challenging standard to play, in this video I give a few…

Jazz guitar: Altered Chords Pt2

In this video I show how to use the Superlocrian mode (nothing more than the 7th mode…

Jazz guitar: Altered Chords Pt1

Altered chords are a flavour of  dominant chords, where we add certain extensions: #9,b9,#5,b5. In the example on the video…

How to use the Diminished Scale Pt 2

Continuation of the diminished scale video…in this Pt2 I show how to incorporate triads into phrases or…

How to use the Diminished Scale Pt 1

In this guitar lesson I am going over a scale that is widely used in the jazz…

TRIAD PAIRS

Triad Pairs – Examples

Just a few examples from the triad pairs video: http://www.TrueGuitarist.com/triad-combinations-also-known-as-triad-pairs/

Harmonic Major Scale

This is a scale I use really often and that can be incorporated in many different progressions….

Tritone Substitution/Passing Chords

Very simple concept widely used in jazz ( but good for other styles). Like shown in the…

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