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Learn from Jazz Guitar Masters
When learning to play jazz guitar it is a great idea to have a private teacher. Someone who can guide you and point you in the right direction as you start or continue your journey to discovering jazz harmony, melody and rhythm. Though having a private teacher is almost essential when learning jazz guitar, you can also garner a ton of information from studying the recordings and teachings of some of the great players such as Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, Mike Stern, Allan Holdsworth and many more.
Over the years I have transcribed hundreds of solos, chord melodies and comping sections by some of my favorite players. Doing so has allowed me to look inside the thought processes of some of the most legendary players of our time. I have also been lucky enough to have studied privately and in masterclassses with some of the players, which were experiences I will never forget.
So, I have decided to share a lot of the knowledge that I learned from studying and learning from these great players in a series of articles on my site. Here are the links to all of the articles that deal with lessons I’ve learned from jazz guitar masters. Check them out!
Lessons from the Masters
- Brazilian Bebop: How Hermeto Pascoal Can Help You Navigate ii-V-I’s
- 5 Joe Pass Chord Licks Every Jazz Guitarist Should Know
- How Kenny Garrett and Pat Martino Can Expand Your Jazz Guitar Chord Knowledge
- Wes Montgomery Chord Scales
- Lenny Breau Two-Note Jazz Guitar Voicings
- Jim Hall Inspired Altered Dominant Chord Scale
- Jim Hall Diminished Chord Voicings for Jazz Guitar
- Learn to Play 4th Chords Like Lenny Breau
- How to Practice Scale Accents Like Kurt Rosenwinkel
- Increase Your Chord Vocabulary 300% With Ted Greene Chord Synonyms
- Take Your Jazz Guitar Solos To the Next Level With Oz Noy Octave Displacements
- Modernize Your Jazz Guitar Solos With Wayne Shorter’s Witch Hunt Motive
- You Don’t Have to Be an Expert to Sound Like Michael Brecker on Guitar
- Learn to Play 4th Chords Like Lenny Breau
- How to Play String Skipping Scales Like Allan Holdsworth
- Increase Your Speed and Vocabulary with Mike Stern’s Minor Arpeggios
- Modernize Your Dominant Chords With the Allan Holdsworth Bebop Scale
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Dear Matt,
Firstly and fore mostly I must thank you for sharing your knowledge and pursuit of mastering such a wonderful artistic style of music. I have “always” had a deep passion and respect for all jazz musicians in general and their pursuit of perfection towards technique, harmonic mastery and compositional adventure. I am a blues player at heart with a very passionate inflection/spirit of jazz within my playing. My quest in not to be a jazz player per say, but to take that spirit and apply it whole-heartedly within the framework of my musical being… I am a 60′s child, so I grew up in an incredible time when many creative musicians in all genre’s exploded! I began playing at a very early age and absorbed myself in many style’s, players like Glen Campbell, Leon Rhodes and Chet Atkins were household names. Then in my teens exposure got serious when Pat Martino, George Benson and John Mclaughlin came into light. The music of the Allman Brothers Band overwhelmed me at this time…. So in a nutshell my style is extremely influenced by Jeff Beck,Duane Allman,Dickey Betts, John Mclaughlin, Pat Martino, Tony Rice and John Coltrane … I have always leaned toward players that totally speak their own voice, non cliche so to speak… I was very lucky in my teens to have a teacher that could listen to a Mclaughlin, Benson, Martino or Holdsworth piece and pretty much write it out and play it within minutes! He never went on to do anything else but work in the banking business! Anyway I wanted to share his very invaluable lesson to me… He taught me the modes, melodic and harmonic minor scales, the principle behind chord scales and a very important scale, the “chromatic scale” and all its proper “in position” fingerings. ***Learning how to blend chromaticism into my playing at a young age was an invaluable lesson and to this day I still use these exercises throughout the entire neck to not only keep my picking technique in check but in a zen-like way my ear as well.
Thanks again and I hope to correspond with you in the future.
Guitarist,
Jimmy Dormire
http://www.jimmydormire.com
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