Practice improvisation skills over jazz backing track.

This is a style that can be found in artists of Jazz and Blues. For example: BB King & Diana Krall.

A nice chord melody to be played using the fingerpicking technique!

We'll focus on phrasing, a very important thing which gives flavour to our playing. To build phrases we are going to use vibrato, glissando, arpeggios, full and micro bends, dynamic picking.

Fusion of classical and jazz harmonies!

A popular song by The Beatles from the album "Help" (1965) Guitar and bass lesson.

Not only is the chord played in a different position, but the note order is changed around. This results in different sounds from the chords as different notes are emphasized. It's also used in soloing, but that's at a later stage and is somewhat 'Jazzy' in approach.

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.

Today I'll share a song of my own. In this lesson the melody is contained by triads.