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Half-diminished Cadences for Guitar: By Tony Corman For jazz guitarists, chord reuse is essential. Restricted as we are to six notes at best, we need to make the most of every voicing available to us. […]

One of the biggest challenges for the guitarist who is learning to play jazz is the complexity of the fingerboard. Knowing how to play a variety of scales and arpeggios in all keys is necessary […]

There are many approaches to learning jazz guitar and by no means is this meant to be a definitive approach. However, in struggling to learn how to play I found some of the methods below […]

Many guitarists are just now getting into doing solo gigs, partly for economic reasons: there aren’t many gigs these days for jazz groups, but a lot of bars and restaurants are willing to spring for […]

A recent lesson with a student prompted the broad question as to what to practice in terms of building a complete vocabulary for improvising. We listed some of the categories of study that are essentials […]

I recently attended a lecture on listening and came away with a number of perspectives on not only the importance of never to stop nurturing this art in life during personal conversations – but of […]

While I was in graduate school, I had to develop a method of learning all the tunes that were thrown at me at a daily basis. In an earlier post, I outlined a method I […]

Hey fellow Jazz Guitarists. I was browsing through some of the Jazz Guitar groups I belong to on Facebook and came across this post by fellow Jazz Guitarist Alex D’Önofrio. I had never chatted with […]