Insights, tips, and techniques to elevate your jazz guitar playing.
Jimmy Wyble's lasting contribution to jazz guitar isn't the Bob Wills swing or the Hollywood studio work — it's the two-line contrapuntal style captured in his etudes, and the lineage of MMC instructors who carry it forward.
Double stops — two notes played simultaneously — are one of those guitar techniques that look small on paper and end up doing a lot of work in practice. Ed Bickert, Barney Kessel, Johnny Smith, and Howard Roberts built large parts of their soloing vocabulary around them.
Phrasing is what separates technically competent improvising from soloing that actually feels alive. A list of tunes Steve Herberman uses for phrasing study — drawn from his MMC Jazz Phrasing series — and a working approach for using them.
In Sid Jacob’s latest class, he takes more than five jazz standards including Bill Evan’s “Very Early”,...
Sid JacobsI still remember some of my earliest experiences playing in a band. So much of it was learning on the …
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This is Part Two of a two-part series on using triad pairs contrapuntally consisting of: Volume One: focuses on contrapuntally...
Michael Bryant
Steve Herberman offers a tremendous amount of information on the use of creating counterpoint lines using triad pairs that he...
Michael BryantFrom the beginning, Sid demystifies what counterpoint is by beautifully improvising on Wayne Shorter?s ballad ?Infant Eyes?. You...
Michael Bryant
In this latest masterclass by Sid Jacobs, we get to see his take on the Gershwin classic, “It Ain’t Necessarily...
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I?ve been fascinated with contrapuntal playing for years. I started out playing classical guitar working on Bach pieces...
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Andy Fite is a musician?s musician! He is the person you would want to study with if you?ve already been …
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Speed can be an impressive form of musical expression when executed well on guitar. Paul Bollenback commences this video …
Michael Bryant