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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