If you aren't moved to learn jazz or forced to learn jazz from teachers or in music school, chances are you've never considered dipping your toes in the vast ocean of standards, chromatic lines, altered chords, and tone scooped sounds of jazz guitar. If you're not planning to be a jazz musician, you'll be surprised how fun it is once you learn some jazz licks. It might even compel you to pivot your guitar goals in a new direction.
Your chord progressions will never be boring again.
Learn the most important techniques and methods of jazz guitar!
Wait, wait, wait... isn't sweep picking only for shredding metal-heads?
These chord progressions will turn you into the coolest kat ever.
I was going to try this with only two fingers but then I realized I'm not a superhuman like Django.
Home riffs are like the safety net under the guy 100 feet up on the tight rope.
Next time you sit down to play guitar for someone, whip out one of these chords.
If you're looking for that "outside" sound in your blues soloing, you need the altered scale in your life.
Here are some great jazz guitar licks for you to add to your repertoire.
This chord will make everything you play sound jazzier.