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Getting Started with Improvising Over a 12-Bar Jazz Blues

Can you identify the musical devices used?

West Coast Blues: Solo Etude

I recently wrote a solo etude over the chord changes to West Coast Blues by the great Wes Montgomery. This is an exercise that uses the...

Triads: Major: Plagal Cadence I-IV-I

A Plagal Cadence is IV-I. In this example, we're in the key of C so the triads are F-C. Here, we're playing on beat 1 with the ride...

Triad Pairs: Church Modes over G7 & Ab7

By varying the note grouping and rhythm, we can come up with some very interesting lines!

Django in Flight: His Soaring and Swinging Licks in Honeysuckle Rose. 3 Best Django Licks

Django Reinhardt was a Belgian-born Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer, regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all...

BACH BWV 1001 Presto LESSON Pt.1

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