Posts Tagged "theory"

Most used 7th guitar chord shapes

In this video I show the most common 7th chord shapes, it’s all pretty self explanatory! for…

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Harmonized major scale with 7th chords on guitar

We have seen in previous lessons how to build the harmonized scale from the major scale. In…

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Factorial Thinking (Combinations applied to music)

Today’s’ tip has to do with mathematics applied to music…we have already seen how in the finger combinations…

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A tool to improve your improvising skills.

It’s not a secret that one of my all time favourite guitar instructional books is The Advancing Guitarist…

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Playing in Fourths

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

Guitar Great Vic Juris: A couple of great video lessons.

I was lucky enough to study with Vic Juris in the early 90′s. Today I stumbled into…

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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…

Larry Carlton lesson on Diminished scale

The last lesson I posted was about the Diminished scale…I stumbled onto this great video where guitar…

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