Jazz Guitar

Posted by guitarmore on February 12, 2009 under Jazz Guitar | Comments are off for this article

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Watch the video after Jazz Lick Number 3 to hear an original jazz chord solo.

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Jazz Lick Number 1:

Click on the arrow in the video below to view a D minor arpeggio played in two octaves in the fifth position.

The minor arpeggio is defined as a series of three consecutive notes being with the first, the flatted third and the fifth note of the major scale.

The flatted third in the D minor arpeggio is the F natural, since the F is sharped (raised one fret) in the natural D scale. (The key of D has two sharps: F sharp and C sharp).

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The name of the arpeggio is determined by the name of the first note of the arpeggio and the type of arpeggio that it is. (like minor, minor 7th, major, etc.)

In our example, the first note is “D”. The first note is also known as the “root” note.

The two arpeggio patterns shown are movable on the neck to form arpeggios with different roots as discussed below.

The first pattern shown has its root on the third string, fitfh fret, which is the note “D”.

Move the pattern up the neck one fret and you are now playing a D sharp arpeggio.

Move it up another fret and you are playing an arpeggio with “E” as the root note. (Which could be played along with an E minor chord).

The second pattern shown has its root on the fifth fret of the fifth string, which is the note “D” and so it is a “D” arpeggio.

Move this pattern up the neck one fret and you are playing a D sharp arpeggio.

There are other arpeggio patterns that have their roots on strings other than the third and fifth strings as shown in the video.

By knowing several arpeggio patterns with roots on different strings you can play consecutive arpeggios in different keys without moving your hands too far of a distance up or down the fretboard.

You can learn to play the minor arpeggio elswhere on the neck, with roots on other strings, by remembering its formula (I, Flat III, V) and the names of the notes on the fret board.

The D minor bar chord shown in the video is also a movable chord, that can be played on different frets, to play a minor chord in keys other than the D. (The root of this chord is also on the fifth string, fifth fret).

The movable finger patterns and chords learned in positions higher than the first position on the neck allow you to play in many keys by using the same basic finger patterns.

Jazz Lick Number 2:

Click on the arrow in the image nelow to view Jazz lick number 2: A two octave G7 aprpeggio (I, III, V, flatted VII) for the beginning jazz guitarist.

This arpeggio, played on the third position on the neck, can be used as a building block for jazz melody improvisation.

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Jazz Lick Numbers 1 & 2 Combined:

Click on the arrow in the image below to view how Jazz licks number 1 and 2 to can be played together and used as the basis for improvising jazz melodies over this chord progression.

Jazz Lick Number 3:

Click on the arrow in the video below to view Jazz Lick Number 3:

Please visit again soon for more jazz licks!

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Click on the arrow in the image below to watch this easy listening, easy to learn original guitar jazz song:

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To some guitarists, jazz is thought of as the combination of harmonized chord scales, played with arpeggios, modal scales, intervals, motifs with counterpoint.

But sometimes we make things sound more technical and difficult sounding than they really are.

If you can count to 12, the GuitarMore system will have you, the beginner, just starting out on the guitar, playing jazz guitar sooner than you would imagine, even before you know the technical definition of all of these words.

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