Jazz Guitar

Pat Metheny Plays Lonely Woman [VIDEO]

2008-06-26T02:54:00.001-07:00

Here's a Youtube video of Pat Metheny playing Horace Silver's beautiful tune "Lonely Woman" in duet with bass player Charlie Haden. Pat plays an Ovation here. The sound is not really good, but the music is...

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Mike Stern Playing Some Shabby Acoustic Guitar

2008-06-18T02:38:00.001-07:00

HI Guys, it's been a long time since my last post, I've been kind of busy.
Here's a cool video of Mike Stern playing some shabby guitar live on Argentine radio. It's nice to hear even the great guitarists do sound like #$!@ sometimes.

Click here for Mike Stern Licks...

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The Never Ending Guitar Lick

2008-03-31T12:50:00.001-07:00

Do you know these guitar licks that seem to go on forever? Well, here are 3 of them.

The first lick is one of mine, a good exercise to get some common chromatic patterns into your fingers. The second one is a Pat Metheny lick, that amazing solo break from Third Wind. The third lick is one from Pat Martino.

You can find all 3 of them here:

Never Ending Jazz Guitar Licks

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Put Some Jazz In Your Guitar Scales: Chromatic Playing

2008-02-20T07:38:00.001-08:00

I just published a new guitar lesson, a guest lesson by Matthew Warnock. In this lesson you'll learn how to add chromatic notes to your scales and arpeggios. Chromatic playings is an essential ellement of the jazz sound.

The link to the lesson:

http://www.jazzguitar.be/chromatics.html

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How to Get a Jazz Guitar Tone: Amps

2008-02-07T14:47:00.001-08:00

Many aspiring jazz guitarists wonder how to get a good jazz guitar tone. The key is getting the swing feel in your ears and fingers and getting the right gear. In this article I made an overview of the guitar amps that are the most popular in jazz:

How to Get a Jazz Guitar Tone: Guitar Amps

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14 Ways To Play Over Major Guitar Chords

2008-01-25T07:07:00.001-08:00

There's a new jazz guitar lesson @ Jazzguitar.be, about the different scales and arpeggios you can use to improvise over major chords.

Click on the link to go to the lesson:

How To Improvise Over Major Chords...

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Jazz Guitar Class With Pat Metheny

2008-01-24T01:06:00.001-08:00

Here are some videos of a Pat Metheny master class.

The warm up:

Turnaround:

All The Things You Are:

Jazz Guitar Endings

2007-12-28T07:00:00.001-08:00

The approaching end of 2007 inspired me to write a tutorial about jazz guitar endings:

10 Ways To End A Jazz Song

Do you know more interesting ways to end a song? Let us know at the Jazz Guitar Forum...

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Jazz Guitar Chords and How To Find Them

2007-12-11T12:06:00.001-08:00

I get a lot of emails from guitarists asking me how to play this or that chord on the guitar. Please show me how to play a G7b9, or a Bm7b5(11)...? Now, I don't mind these emails and I will answer them (although it usually takes a while), but what I want to say is: it's easy to find these chords all by yourself, even if you have never played the particular chord before. All you need to do is learn a little music theory once and you'll never have to ask for a chord again.

I explain it all here: How To Make Your Own Guitar Chords

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8 String Guitar: Jason Crawford Plays I'll Remember April [Video]

2007-12-10T13:25:00.001-08:00

Jason Crawford is an 8-string solo jazz guitarist who actually makes some music with his instrument. I like the way he lays out the theme of "I'll Remember April" in this video, but I'm not very impressed with the impro though. Not that I'd do it better than him, I never even touched a 7- or 8-string guitar (and I'm not planning to, to be honest). Anyway, Jason does a good job on the 8-string, this theme really swings!

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Interview With Pat Metheny

2007-09-19T12:54:00.001-07:00

I just read an interesting interview with Pat Metheny in the Japan Times Online. He talks about the limitations of the guitar and that he only sees the guitar as a means to an end.

"I don't really care about the guitar", he says.

I have the same attitude towards my instrument, I'm not really a guitar freak. Are you?

Here's a link to the interview:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fm20070914a1.html

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Boy Who Started Playing Drums When He Was 2 Years Old

2007-09-15T13:49:00.001-07:00

How old were you when you started playing guitar? I started rather late, I was 16 when I bought my first guitar. I was completely uniterested in music until I was about 15 and then some friends started taking music lessons. Sometimes I wonder how my skills on the guitar would be if I had been playing since I was, let's say 5 or 6. The boy in this video started playing drums when he was 2. You can see his musical evolution going from 2 to 11 years old.

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Jazz Guitarist Peter Bernstein

2007-09-14T08:23:00.001-07:00

While browsing on Youtube I discovered this video of jazz guitarist Peter Bernstein. I had never heard of him before, but I like what he does, very tasteful. Here's him playing a song called Bones at the Ballard Jazz Festival with Eric Alexander on tenor saxophone, Chuck Deardorf on bass and Matt Jorgensen on drums.

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Joe Zawinul Dies at the Age of 75

2007-09-11T12:36:00.001-07:00

Joe Zawinul, the legendary keyboard player and electric jazz pioneer died Tuesday, September 11 at the age of 75. He had been hospitalized in a Viennese hospital since last month.

Joe Zawinul helped shaping the sound of jazz fusion. He played in Miles Davis' band and appeared on albums like In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew.

In 1970 he formed his own band called Weather Report together with Wayne Shorter and people like (over the years) Miroslav Vitous, Airto Moreira, Jaco Pastorius, Don Alias, Peter Erskine and Victor Bailey. Zawinul scored two world hits with the songs Mercy, mercy, mercyBirdland and . When Weather Report split up, he formed the band The Zawinul Syndicate.

Here is a video of the Weather Report playing Birdland (with Jaco):

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Jazz Drummer Max Roach Is Dead

2007-08-17T05:54:00.001-07:00

In the early morning of August 16, 2007, the legendary jazz drummer Max Roach died at the age of 83, after a long illness. He was one of the last survivors of the first bebop generation.

Max Roach started playing drums when he was 10 and by the age of 18 he was the house drummer of Monroe's Uptown House, jamming with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. He got recorded on vinyl the first time in 1943 as a part of Coleman Hawkins' band. He also played with Duke Ellington in 1944. He was the drummer on many important recordings like Charlie Parker's Ko-Ko and Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool. In 1952 he founded a record company called Debut Records, together with Charles Mingus.

May he rest in peace, the jazz world shall never forget him...

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Pat Metheny Plays House Of The Rising Sun

2007-08-07T01:27:00.001-07:00

In this video Pat Metheny is a guest in some Japanese music show called Ongakuy Wa Sekaida. He starts by playing one of his songs with the Pat Metheny Band (sorry, forgot the name of the song) and then sits together with some Japanese guitarists for an interview/lesson. They talk about picking technique, Wes Montgomery and Pat plays a little solo improvisation on House of the Rising Sun.

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Playing Jazz Guitar: Stella by Starlight Theme [Video]

2007-07-17T08:48:00.001-07:00

Here's my second guitar video lesson: how to play a theme like Stella by Starlight in a guitar trio. You can find the tabs and explaining here: Stella by Starlight

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Ted Greene Playing Autumn Leaves

2007-07-15T13:36:00.001-07:00

In this video of a jazz guitar masterclass, guitar legend Ted Greene goes through the changes of Autumn Leaves and applies some very nice reharmonizations.

Autumn Leaves is 5/4

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Somewhere Over The Rainbow [Video]

2007-07-11T10:37:00.001-07:00

In this jazz guitar video, Tommy Emmanuel plays a beautiful version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow on his worn acoustic guitar. The way he uses harmonics is amazing.

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Jazz Guitar on TV (Wes Montgomery)

2007-07-09T03:32:00.001-07:00

Ovation Channel is showing "Wes Montgomery: Good-Hearted Guitar" on Tuesday (July 10) at 6:00PM Central Time.

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Jazz Guitar Video Lessons

2007-07-02T12:20:00.001-07:00

I decided to go the video way and made my first jazz guitar video lesson. The video is about comping and I use There WIll Never Be Another You as example. The video is hosted @ Youtube.com:

Video Guitar Lesson 1

The guitar chord charts, tabs, backing tracks and explanation you can find at the website:

There WIll Never Be Another You

Let me know what you think of it. More video lessons will follow soon.

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Incredible Solo Jazz Guitarist [Video]

2007-06-27T05:58:00.001-07:00

This guy is incredible! John Phil Wayne is a guitarist from London, England who has been pursuing a career as a solo jazz guitarist since 1961. He plays walking bass, chords and solo improvisation at once in a way and with a speed I have never seen before. He has a very strange, but very effective right hand technique. He really deserves his nickname: Thousand Hands.

Check out this clip of John Phil Wayne playing a fast blues:

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Great Version of So What by Miles Davis [Video]

2007-06-02T11:23:00.001-07:00

Here's one of the best versions of So What that has been captured on camera. Personally I find the Kind of Blue times Miles Davis' best period. Miles plays a very nice solo on this take, he's totally focused and every note he plays is meaningful. The same goes for the solos of John Coltrane and Winton Kelly, great stuff.

So What for Guitar
John Coltrane Lick

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John Scofield Jamming WIth Jaco Pastorius [Video]

2007-05-30T12:36:00.001-07:00

Here's John Scofield, Jaco Pastorius and Kenwood Dennard jamming a cool song called "The Chicken". The Chicken was written by Pee Wee Ellis, one of the guys of James Brown's horn section, so it's kind of funky.

Here's the sheet music: The Chicken Guitar Tabs

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Practice Jazz Cds

2007-05-29T12:31:00.001-07:00

I got some mails of readers aksing if I can recommend them a particular kind of practice jazz cds. Although I have used Aebersold cds a lot and I was and still am a big fan of those, I now use Band in a Box. Of course the Aebersold cds sound better, they are played by real musicians, but I prefer the flexibility of Band in a Box. The latest incarnation (2007) has real drums and although the other instruments are Midi, you can get a really nice sound if you use one of the free software synths and be carefull about the instruments you choose (who needs strings or steeldrums to practice?). A simple setup like acoustic bass, real drums and Fender Rhodes sounds really good.

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