This lesson focuses on playing riffs, basics of alternate picking, slash chords and ear training.

This concept can serve to you as a guide to make your own jazz work if you just began to delve in jazz waters. Includes right hand dexterity, warming up for jazz improvisations, ear developing, scales and arpeggios of jazzy chords, economy and alternate picking styles.

Guidelines for developing a melody from scratch by using various phrasing techniques.

Let me who you how I develop some cool melodies!

The original idea was to show you some alternate picking exercises, but I ended coming up with this somewhat of a neo-classical solo.

Modal phrasing ideas developed on a static metal progression.

By developing the standard I IV V 12 bar blues progression we can get some very interesting results that can help us in every day songwriting - check it out! :)

I'm sure you've done something similar on the guitar, and here the same exercise is used to give your voice better control over pitch, while changing the notes in the melody. The purpose of exercise is to increase your's voice ability to sing properly.

This scale gives you a new tools for your compositions. The Dorian mode is used in jazz, and in some rock and pop music making it sound "jazzy". No matter if you play rock, pop or metal, you will find very original stuff if you used it.