Description

Working with limited practice time and achievable goals

We all want to play and keep improving as jazz guitarists, but time is always in short supply.

• Short exercises that you teach you the sound of the chords and how to play over them
• Essential material for a Jazz Blues
• A solo example that shows how it can be turned into music

The focus in this lesson is to give you a compact set of exercises that you can work through plus a solo example and everything should be easy to work on and possible to go through in a limited amount of time. Finding time to work on learning to improvise can be difficult. This lesson takes you through some essential and related skills can be a great way to take your playing to the next level.

It is very useful to have some exercises that help you learn not only the arpeggios and the scales but also help you learn to hear where they fit in the chord progression. Another thing that needs to be developed is flexibility with the arpeggios and scale so that you develop the number of things you can come up with while soloing. That is how the exercises are designed: exploring the material in one position of the neck and developing overview and flexibility.

What You will get from the lesson

The goal of this lesson is to give you a set of exercises that will help you really explore the 12 bar blues in one position. I have chosen to work with an F blues since this is the most common key for the blues in a jazz context with pieces like Billie’s Bounce, Straight No Chaser and Take The Coltrane.

I have added videos of me playing the exercises, so you can use either the backing track or play the exercises together with me.

Take your playing up a level

This lesson is a solid way to take you through the material you need and really get it into your fingers and your ears so that you can play better solos on an F Blues. Once you start working through a song like this you can take that same process to other songs and in that way get those into your repertoire.

Topics Discussed

• 7 Exercises on the form
• Easy to play and study
• 3 Chorus Solo Example
• Overview of the arpeggios in the position
• Different ways of playing the arpeggios

Download Includes

• 8 Video performances
• 7 Exercises or Etudes
• 3 Chorus Solo example
• Transcription PDF/GuitarPro
• 8 Performance mp3s
• Backing track mp3