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Jazz Guitar Tip: Improvise with a Familiar Chord Progression

Jazz Guitar Tip: Improvise with a Familiar Chor...

When improvising, you can use single-note lines to outline the harmony of a song. Use today’s excerpt from Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Essentials to work on improvising through a progression. Excerpted from Fingerstyle...

Jazz Guitar Tip: Improvise with a Familiar Chor...

When improvising, you can use single-note lines to outline the harmony of a song. Use today’s excerpt from Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Essentials to work on improvising through a progression. Excerpted from Fingerstyle...

Learn How to Navigate the Modulations in Circle-of-Fifths Progressions

Learn How to Navigate the Modulations in Circle...

This excerpt from Weekly Workout: Full Circle introduces you the concept and explores circle-of-fifths progressions using seventh-chord arpeggios in one position.

Learn How to Navigate the Modulations in Circle...

This excerpt from Weekly Workout: Full Circle introduces you the concept and explores circle-of-fifths progressions using seventh-chord arpeggios in one position.

Piano-Ballad Style Fingerpicking Pattern

Piano-Ballad Style Fingerpicking Pattern

Move between monotonic bass lines and plucked treble notes for a fingerpicking pattern similar to “Tears in Heaven.”

Piano-Ballad Style Fingerpicking Pattern

Move between monotonic bass lines and plucked treble notes for a fingerpicking pattern similar to “Tears in Heaven.”

How to Combine Fretted Notes with Slide Notes

How to Combine Fretted Notes with Slide Notes

Mixing up fretted notes and slide notes over an alternating bass sounds great. Learn how to play this classic blues technique with this excerpt from Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics.

How to Combine Fretted Notes with Slide Notes

Mixing up fretted notes and slide notes over an alternating bass sounds great. Learn how to play this classic blues technique with this excerpt from Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics.

Monotonic-Bass-Patterns

Thumping your thumb on the same bass note gives you a foundation for melody playing and singing 

Monotonic-Bass-Patterns

Thumping your thumb on the same bass note gives you a foundation for melody playing and singing 

Improve Your Technique by Practicing “Broken Th...

Break up your scale practice with third-based patterns.

Improve Your Technique by Practicing “Broken Th...

Break up your scale practice with third-based patterns.