Jazz Guitar Chords: Get 100 Voicings From 3 Easy Shapes
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In this video you’ll discover how the most useful jazz guitar chords are constructed, and how you can easily derive literally HUNDREDS of cool jazz chords from just THREE basic shapes. You can find that video here: https://youtu.be/Usg8gdts4WU
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Greg O’Rourke
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Making Mistakes – The Path To Success
It happens to all of us at some point: Getting too wrapped up with not sounding that great sometimes when we practice. The reason: It’s the curse of... Being an adult. The Curse of Being An Adult Compare this to the following: Notice what a child does when they first...
Holy Whole Tones Batman! Try This Scale on Minor Chords
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In this video I’ll show you how to use the whole tone scale to create some exotic outside effects on minor chords. This is a continuation on a previous lesson video where we applied the whole tone scale to dominant chords. You can find that video here: https://youtu.be/tOKXuN83B0c
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Warm Guitar Tone – A How-To Guide For Jazz Guitar
It’s crazy really - You can have… the best ear in the world the most sophisticated ideas in your solo great rhythm and; have a wonderful expressive phrasing The list goes on. But: If you don’t have a good tone (i.e. the quality of the sound your guitar makes), then...
Improvisation With The Whole Tone Scale
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In this video I’ll show you how to use the whole tone scale to create some quirky and unique effects in your jazz guitar improvisations.
This cool symmetrical scale pattern is easy to learn on the fretboard if you know a few tricks to the pattern.
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Greg O’Rourke
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ULTIMATE Fingerstyle Guitar Exercises for All Guitar Styles
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In this episode I’m going to show you the ultimate fast path to building fingerstyle guitar technique with these three handy fingerpicking exercises for guitar. These 3 simple fingerstyle guitar exercises will quickly enable to develop your fingerpicking accuracy and speed on guitar, regardless of what style of guitar you like to play! Whether you like to play jazz, rock, pop, classical or country, you’ll find this lesson useful. I’ll also show you the core principles of good fingertstyle technique to set you up for success and so you avoid injuries when it comes to fingerstyle guitar.
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Greg O’Rourke
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Free Sample Lesson: Mind Expanding Triad Trip with Ant Law
Explore exciting new creative dimensions of harmony and improvisation techniques through the magic of triads. Presented by acclaimed UK based jazz guitarist Ant Law who recently featured as a special guest on the FretDojo Youtube channel.
This lesson is the first video from our course series ‘Mind Expanding Triad Trip with Ant Law’ which was recently released in the FretDojo Jazz Guitar Academy. To find out more about the Academy and to sign up to get instant access click here. https://www.fretdojo.com/signup-offer
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Greg O’Rourke
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Innovation in Online Jazz Guitar Education
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Melodic Development Workshop with Stuart King
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In this FretDojo episode our special guest Stuart King is back to talk about one of the most important practice techniques for any jazz guitar improviser – melodic development techniques. This will enable you to sound much more musical when you improvise on guitar and is a technique you should practice daily.
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Greg O’Rourke
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Innovation in Online Jazz Guitar Education
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Jazz Guitar Warmup: (Almost) Slurred Scale Exercise
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In this FretDojo episode we’re going to cover a very cool jazz guitar warmup which I call the ‘Almost Slurred Scale Exercise’ – a multilayered exercise to work out your speed, phrasing, position shifting, slurs and more – and also help get those creative juices flowing for your jazz guitar practice session. Enjoy!
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Charlie Christian – Rose Room Lick
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In this session I take a look at some of Charlie Christian’s vocabulary, and how you can easily use this to make a convincing jazz solo that still sounds fresh and relevant today!
Video Sections:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Lick Demonstration – Full Tempo
01:16 Lick Demonstration – Slow Tempo
01:45 Lick Analysis
05:21 Triad Example Ideas over Bb7
07:36 Substitution Analysis
09:07 Triads on Jazz Blues Exercise (with corresponding PDF)
11:01 Exercise Example – Full Tempo
12:30 Wrap Up
This material will instantly spice up your jazz guitar improvisations to make them sound more authentic, and will help you open up the creative soloing possibilities on guitar.
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