Website Lessons

Here is an overview of my online Jazz Guitar Lessons. Most of them are also connected to a YouTube video lesson.

I’ve tried to categorize my lessons, but some of them are both about chords and soloing concepts so it is a little confusing.

Improvising and Soloing

F Blues Guitar Survival Kit – What You Need To Know

Half Diminished Chords – This is how to use Quartal Arpeggios

Bebop Guitar Licks With Powerful Arpeggio Hack

Easy Autumn Leaves Chord Melody and Quick How-to-Play!

3 Arpeggios from the Diminished Scale (No Triads)

Three Ways to Add Arpeggios to Your Jazz Guitar Licks

Rhythm Changes – How You Use Chord Substitution for New Lines

More Melodic Guitar Solos – Three Critical Techniques without Arpeggios and Scales

5 Sus4 Triads and the Perfect Maj7 licks you can make with them

Odd Meter Soloing: Getting started with 5/4 – Jazz Blues in F

The Reason Your Jazz Guitar Licks Suck and How you fix it!

Advanced Pentatonic Ideas you Need for Fusion and Jazz Guitar

Better Rhythms in Your Guitar Solos

My secret arpeggio and 3 places I use it!

Look Mom No Root! Jazz Chord Survival Kit Part 2

From SCALE practice to JAZZ LICKS – Work towards Music!

Picking Techniques beyond Alternate Picking

Guitar Solo With Only Triads – Jazz Blues

Modern Triplet Rhythms – Essential jazz rhythms and exercises

The Pentatonic Scale for Dorian and Lydian You Forgot to Check out

3 types of Rhythm Changes licks you NEED to know – Bebop Guitar Lesson

The Triad we never talk about – but we play it all the time!

Pentatonic Scale for Altered Chords – Modern Melodic Minor Secrets

Things You Never Use in Your Solos – Mixolydian

Secret to play over Diminished Chords

Things you NEED to know in Melodic minor

6 Triads for a Cmaj7 Chord (well 10 actually..)

Lydian Dominant Licks – The Best Modern Arpeggios and Structures

Bebop Jazz Guitar Licks – Classic Bebop Sound Decoded

5 Great ways to use a minMaj7 arpeggio

Quartal Harmony on a Jazz Blues

5 Great Jazz Licks You Need to Know With The Dominant 7thb5 arpeggio

3 Awesome Ways from Music Theory to Music

Writing Jazz Licks – The Best Way To Teach Yourself Jazz Guitar

The Craziest Arpeggios & How You Make Beautiful Jazz Guitar Sounds With Them

3 Bebop Concepts and how to turn them into Jazz Licks

Melodic Minor, Altered, Tritone Subs – Guitar solo on Solar

5 Chromatic licks – Chromatic Enclosures

Great Dorian m7 licks – Secret ideas from Holdsworth, Metheny and more

How Charlie Parker Licks can help you play better Jazz Guitar

Modal Soloing – What You Are Missing!

Reharmonizing II V I – breaking all the rules!

Are you using your Maj7 arpeggios on these chords?

4 Dominants on one Chord! – You'll never need another arpeggio

Best exercise for jazz guitar chord solos!

Don't spend too much time on this exercise!

Don't sound the same all the time – Minor chords

Refreshing and Easy II V I reharmonization

3 Altered Scale Arpeggios that you forgot to learn!

Modern jazz arpeggio ideas – Melodic Interval Structures

Chromatic passing notes – Instant Bebop guitar lesson!

Sweep Picking Cascading Arpeggios – Upper-structure Chords

Scary Vibrato! – Using Neck Vibrato

1 Pentatonic Scale over 8 Chords

5 Jazz Blues Licks in F

How You Really Use an Am7 arpeggio

Standard with Pentatonics – Satin Doll

Whole-tone scale for outside playing

Autumn Leaves – Soloing with arpeggios

5 Quartal Harmony licks

Bb Jazz Blues – The Basics

Triads of the Diminished scale – part 1

10 Arpeggios over a Maj7 chord

Minor 6th Pentatonics on an F blues

Create your own arpeggio shapes

Triad pairs in the altered scale

5 Bb Jazz Blues licks

Target notes on a II V I

The Wrong Tritone Scale

Playing Outside – Side-slipping

Bb Jazz Blues Chord Solo

Rhythm exercise on a Jazz Blues

Do you really know the pentatonic scale?

How to improvise over a minor II V I with arpeggios

10 arpeggios over a Dom7th chord

How to practice your scales and why – Positions

Making Jazz lines sound bluesy

5 ways to use motifs in your II V I lines

Soloing over a II V I with Pentatonic scales

How to Improvise with an Arpeggio

Improvising and using Maj7#5 chords

Triplet Rhythms – Part 2

10 arpeggios over a m7 chord

Tritone Scale

Minor 6th Pentatonic scale

Rhythm Changes – Part 2

Blue Bossa – Soloing with Arppeggios

Soloing with Chords – Part 2 Minor II V I

Triad Pairs – Part 2

Triplet Rhythms – Part 1

Drop2 Voicings as Arpeggios

10 Altered dominant lines

The Altered Scale: Three Approaches

Adding Chords to Single Note Lines – Part 2

Triad Pairs – Part 1

Rhythm Changes – Part 1

F Jazz Blues Soloing

Turnarounds part 3 – I bIII7 II Valt

How to make lines on a III bIIIdim II V progression

How to make 10 II V I licks with a Gm7 arpeggio

4th mode Harmonic Minor

How to start soloing over a II V I with arpeggios

Adding Chords to Single Note Lines – Part 1

Turnarounds part 2 – I bIIIdim II V

Motif Exercises – F Jazz Blues

Turnarounds part 1 – I VI II V

Improvising in 3/4

Jazz Blues Chord Solo

Making II V I lines with Odd Note Groupings

Pentatonics part 3 – Arpeggios and Melodic ideas

Sus4 Triads as Upper Structures

Lydian Mode

Tritone Substitution

Across the Fretboard

Playing a Jazz Standard with Pentatonic Scales

How to use triads in solos

Soloing with Chords Part 1

The Augmented Scale

Phrygian Chords

Pentatonics part 2 – II V progressions

Shell Voicings as Arpeggios

Harmonic Minor Dominant Lines

IV minor chords in a major key

#IVdim suspension of the I chord

Diminished Scale on Dom7th Chords

Get more out of the licks you already know

Jazz Blues Soloing

Triplets in groups of 4 – part 1

Open Triads in Solos

Minor II V I Cadences

Quartal Harmony in Solos

Pentatonics part 1 – Maj7 Chords

Melodic Minor – Altered Scale

Melodic Minor – Lydian Dominants

Dominant 7th Chord Scales – part 1

Maj7b5 – chords and arpeggios

Target Notes

Melodic Minor – An Introduction

Diatonic Arpeggios – Superimposing and altered chords

Diatonic Arpeggios – how to use and practice them

Using chords in solos

Playing over changes with arpeggios

How to convert theory and technique exercises to solo lines

The 3rd Messiaen mode

Triads and Triad pairs in improvisation Part 3

Triads and Triad pairs in improvisation Part 2

Triads and Triad pairs in improvisation Part 1

Chords and Voicings

Autumn Leaves Chords – 5 Useful ways to unlock Extensions

How to use Drop 2 Chords on a Jazz Blues – Bebop Skill

Allan Holdsworth Modal chords – You can add new textures to your comping

Passing Chords – The 3 Types You Need for Comping and Chord Solos

You Don't Need That Many Chord Voicings, It's How You Use Them

What Jimi Hendrix can teach Jazz Guitarists

Jazz Guitar Comping Rhythms – Exercise to make your own

Allan Holdsworth Chords – Voicings and Inversions

Modern 3 note voicings and voice leading – How to find new voicings

Walking Bass and Chords on a Bb Blues – Jazz Guitar Lesson

Drop2 – Tactics to Create Cutting-Edge Jazz Guitar Harmony

Allan Holdsworth Chords on a Jazz Standard – Advanced Modern Chord Voicings

Jazz Counterpoint – Discover New Harmonic Ideas

F Jazz Blues Comping – Jazz Chords and Concepts – Guitar Lesson

Melodic Comping – Stronger than voice-leading

The Minor Chord You Never Use

Walking Bass and Chords – Solar

Bossa Nova Guitar patterns 2 – Partido Alto

Bossa Nova Guitar patterns 1 – Blue Bossa

Triads – Easy 3 note Jazz Chords

Jazz Chords 10 variations of a I VI II V turnaround

C Jazz Blues with triad voicings

How to play Jazz Chords on Guitar

III VI II V I with Triads

Making Jazz Chords sound Bluesy

Using the pentatonic scale as chords

Drop2&4 voicings – Part 1

Find New Jazz Chords with inversions

Play a standard with 2 types of Drop2 chords

Building chord voicings from 3rd and 7th

Slash Chords – All major triads over bass notes

Rootless Voicings – Part 1 – Triads

First II V I chord voicing sets

Developing Basic Comping Rhythms

Endless new ways to play the same II V I voicings

Jazz Chord Essentials – Drop 2 voicings part 3

Jazz Chord Essentials – Drop2 voicings – Part 2

Drop 2 voicings – Part 1 – Jazz Chord Essentials

Jazz Chord Essentials: 4 part Quartal Harmony

Chromatic Chords – part 1

Chord Melody: It Could Happen To You

Phrygian Chords

Jazz Chord Essentials – 3 note 7th chords part 2

Minor Blues Comping

Jazz Chord Essentials – 3 note 7th chords part 1

Chords and Walking Bass – part 2

Turnarounds – Comping

Diatonic chords in the pentatonic scale

Jazz Chord Essentials – 3 part Quartal Harmony

Chords and Walking Bass – part 1

Jazz Chord Survival Kit

Jazz Blues Comping

Jazz Chord Essentials: Open Triads

Maj7b5 – chords and arpeggios

Jazz Chord Essentials: Triads

Jazz Chord Essentials – Shell voicings

Jazz Chord Essentials – Drop 2 voicings – Part 2

Jazz Chord Essentials – Drop 2 voicings – Part 1

Drop 2 Voicings for guitar

Inverting chords to get new voicings

Jazz comping video from Lewis Nash