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How to Play Jazz Guitar Turnaround with All Thumb Chords

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, excited to bring you this video lesson. I want to show you a jazz turnaround using all thumb chords. I like to use my thumb a lot and so I incorporate it into my playing. God gave you your thumb so you

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Shell Chords in the Style of Freddie Green

Hey, how’s it going this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, excited tobring you this video lesson. We’re looking at what I call “Shell Chords” on the lower strings, or almost like Freddie Green style rhythm playing over John Coletrane’s “Giant Steps”. We’ve discussed playing over the 1st 4 bars, now we’re looking at the

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How To Play Jazz Chord Progression Using the Thumb

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, excited to bring you this video blog. We’re talking about “Giant Steps” today, John Coletrane’s tune. I’m going to show you some lines that will get you through the first four bars of “Giant Steps” and probably the hardest part of the

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Jazz Chord Voicings from Giant Steps by John Coltrane

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. We’re looking at the first four bars of changes to John Coletrane’s “Giant Steps”. What we’re going to start out here it just with some chord voicings. Previously we were working at getting some chord voicings on

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How to Do Arpeggio Exercise With Chords On Guitar

Hey, how’s it going, guys? My name is John McClennanand I’m here today with guitarcontrol.com and I wantto show you some great chordal endings you can use tojazz standards. This sequence of chords, again, demonstratessomething called common tone where it’s a series of chordsthat all keep one note in common. This would be a cadenceresolving

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Cool Jazz Licks Over Giant Steps

7 Giant Steps Lessons The Ultimate Guitar Lesson to Master the Pentatonic Scales in 3 Weeks! How to Play First 4 Bars From J.Coltrane´s Giant Steps On Jazz Guitar John Coltrane´s Giant Steps Chord Voicings | Easy Tabs with Video Jazz Chord Voicings from Giant Steps by John Coltrane How to Play the Chord Progression

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Learn How to Play Chord Triads on the Lower Strings

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. It’s something that we’ve discussed before, is triads on lower strings. For instance, if I take an A chord and I play 5-4-2, and then I invert that chord and then I invert it again and then

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How to Play the Chord Progression from Giant Steps

How’s it going, guys? My name is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, excited to bring you another video blog. We’re looking at the chord progression to “Giant Steps”, John Coletrane’s tune. And what I want to show you is some real nice, what I call, shell chords. They’re really great for comping in

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How to Play “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” by Queen

Hey, how’s it going guys this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, excited to bring you this video lesson “Acoustic Strumming Pattern” in the styleof Brian May from Queen. What an amazing guitar player he was. We’re starting on a D chord. And the song for reference here is “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”. We

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How to Play A Jazz Guitar Lick from Giant Steps

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. We’re looking at lines going over the first four bars of “Giant Steps”, John Coletrane’s tune. The first four bars are almost — probably one of the hardest parts of that song. So it’s good to practice

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