Jazz

How to Play Chitlins Con Carne by Kenny Burrell In this Guitar Control lesson instructor Jon McLennan, is going to show you how to play “Chitlins Con Carne” by Kenny Burrell. This is a great blues song in the key of C with a Latin flavor. Jon is going to break this song down for …

Due to the plurality of the Internet, I’m extremely picky and impatient when it comes to jazz guitar lessons online, especially video tutorials. If the first minute of any lesson consists of the guy talking about his methods or his preferences, or basically anything that doesn’t explicitly reference the lesson at hand, I’m out of …

I envy the younger generation of guitar players, particularly jazz guitarists, I really do. But I’m not jealous. In fairness, it’s necessary to explain the difference between envy and jealousy. Envy is wanting what other people have; for example, I’m envious of Pat Metheny’s jazz guitar virtuosity. I’m also envious of John Scofield’s pedal board. …

I’ve often thought that the phrase “jazz rhythm guitar” is redundant, mainly due to the fact that in jazz big bands of the 1930s and 40s, the guitarist was considered an essential part of the rhythm section (guitar, drums and bass). They usually played four strums to the bar, although an amount of harmonic improvisation …

Welcome back! today I wanna give you one of the best jazz lessons guitar players or any other instruments, I’ve had. It’s the simplest one, yet the coolest one I’ve ever been taught. So you know how playing jazz seems all difficult and complicated. You see all those unusual chord progression and somehow the scales …

Welcome back! In this article I wanna talk about how to sound like a legit jazz. We’ve all read, or at least try understand, one or another guitar jazz lesson, but somehow we are always feel like we are not there yet. Well I’m going to teach a way to make a simple 4note chord …

Welcome back! Today I wanna give you one of the most useful online jazz guitar lessons you will ever receive. The most basic jazz progression is the IIm – V7 – Imaj7; You will run into it more than you think so. I wanna show a way to spice it up; to make it sound …

Jazz is an amazing style of music, and if you’re reading this, it means you’re probably looking to get into playing jazz guitar, which is great! But since there’s so much out there to learn, how do you know where to start? Today, we’ll be going through some of the basics when it comes to …

We’ve all heard of jazz music, and most of us have heard it before, whether it be on the radio, in a movie, or at a concert. But what exactly is jazz fusion? Music as a whole is very versatile and always changing. Look at where we are today, and look where we came from. …

Gypsy jazz is a sub genre of jazz music with somewhat ambiguous roots, although its beginnings are frequently attributed to jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and considered to have grown into existence in the 1930s. You’ll often see the music referred as jazz manouche, the French pronunciation, due in large part because the music has its …