Jazz Guitar Life thanks Dr. Wayne Goins for his invaluable service to the Jazz Guitar Community – both past and present – in his roles as a player, educator and writer/researcher and we are especially […]
I’m about to vent! For all the young – or not so young – Jazz Guitarists on Facebook and elsewhere. If in the 40’s ,50’s 60’s and maybe the 70’s, you went up to let’s […]
Jeff Berlin is an internationally known world-class Jazz/Fusion Bassist who has played with everyone from Bill Bruford, Allan Holdsworth, Scott Henderson, Larry Coryell and Pat Martino to John McLaughlin, Yes, Frank Zappa, Patrick Moraz and […]
Jazz Guitar Life would like to thank Jazz Guitarist Bobby Broom for allowing this article to be reprinted from his website! Enjoy 🙂 ———— Twelve exemplary recorded performances from one of the greatest legends of […]
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. […]
New York based Jazz Guitarist Jostein Gulbrandsen shared his thoughts on improvisation to readers of his Facebook page and he was gracious enough to allow Jazz Guitar Life to share it with you all as […]
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 […]
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