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 to make your solos more interesting and memorable. Remember to leave lots of…
Playing in Fourths
I really like this style of phrasing, take some great examples like McCoy Tyner, and a lot of the 'hard bop' jazz cats. The basic idea is this: take a scale, in…
Tips: play Giant Steps on guitar
Giant Steps has always been a challenging standard to play, in this video I give a few tips on how to approach this famous tune. The Chords (from the fake…
Jazz guitar: Altered Chords Pt2
In this video I show how to use the Superlocrian mode (nothing more than the 7th mode of a minor melodic scale) to improvise over altered chords. On C7 the choice would…
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 I use C7 as basic chord and add the extension D#,Db,G#,Gb also as…
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 altered chords voicings. If we take a C half step/whole step scale C,…
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 and fusion circles and creates quite a distinctive sound. Actually...it is not a…
Triad Pairs – Examples
Just a few examples from the triad pairs video: http://www.TrueGuitarist.com/triad-combinations-also-known-as-triad-pairs/