What is a model solo and why should I care?? That’s what my non-musician wife asked me after I passionately spoke to her about it for 30 minutes straight last night… lol. Just kidding, she stopped me after 40 seconds. To put it simply, it’s a solo that you compose…

Introduction : The idea when making these exercise was to develop my ‘Chicken Picking’ phrasing for improvisation and free myself from chaining ‘licks’ over and over. The exercises consist of 4 bar lines made from various melodic motifs connected together. Motifs are taken from different country/bluegrass musicians playing on different instruments.…

Intro Learning Jazz improvisation is a colossal task especially for musicians with a non Jazz background. I see a lots of guitarists that are discouraged and don’t see the lights at the end of the tunnel. I can perfectly relate to how they feel. Coming from a non jazz background…

Lenny Breau is without any doubt one of the most original jazz guitarist. A lot can be said on his unique playing style but what stand out the most for many people is how he is using guide tones to emulate piano comping. In this lesson series I will break…

Here’s a simple but very efficient idea to solo over II – V progressions. It consist of shifting a minor 3rd upward to create the altered dominant sound. In other words, when soloing over a II chord in any positions, you can shift to the equivalent position a minor 3rd…

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Jazz guitar chord vocabulary can often be seen as a vast and infinite subject…. and it really is!!! But when using the right approach to break down this aspect of jazz guitar it is possible to build a solid vocabulary that can be used to express ideas and ultimately build…

In this lesson I will explain my favorite picking style. It is how I am picking most of the time except when a particular style or sound is needed. This picking style is used by some of the most notable guitarists like Pat Metheny and Mike Stern, although, not necessarily…

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Hey there! Why not talk about comping… the way too often forgotten of our practice sessions. The coolest thing about comping is that it might get you a job if you are good at it! Although I have no idea what I am talking about since I never got any…

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So now that we covered the targeting patterns, it is time to use them in context. This part of the ‘Backward Chromatic Targeting’ lesson will focus on musical examples. I provided audio examples so you can hear how it sound in context. I have also outlined all the targeting patterns…

  Chromatic targeting is for sure one of the most important jazz melodic device. It has been used since the early years of jazz but in the 40s, bebop soloists like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie pushed this idea to a whole new level. Strangely it is from bassists that…

Now that I have explained the main principles of my neck visualization approach we will see how we can add other intervals to build all sorts of material. Let start with the first position of the last lesson: Behind the root, root of 6th string (G shape) I have added…

Introduction: I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do a lesson on the neck visualization subject. There is already so much on this subject through out the internet and in fact; there is no better or worst method to learn to visualize your neck, there is just different approach for…

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Altered dominant sound is one of the greatest innovation Jazz brought to modern music. A lot of romantic composers were fascinated by this sound. Even Rachmaninoff, who was a big Art Tatum fan, implemented these harmonies into his later compositions but the musical approach of both style was so far…

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