Jazz Blues Theme & Variation by Guy Fenocchi is a free jazz guitar video lesson on playing lead jazz guitar. We'll cover simple jazz lines and then modify them slightly. Using this concept properly, you can create a call and response feel. State an idea then reply with an answer. We'll apply this technique over a 12 bar blues in G.
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Here are the jazz lines that we're going to use

Here is the 12 bar blues progression that we're going to play the lines over

The Jazz Blues 101 Package by Guy Fenocchi takes you a step further than our Jazz Blues 101 - Intro lesson. This six lesson series will teach you how to take a modern jazz approach to improvising over a blues progression. In each lesson Guy will show you different fingergings of arpeggios for each chord represented in the progressions. You will then learn how to use these notes to improvise jazz runs that follow the chord changes. Guy will guide you through the music theory involved and share his tips on improvisation. Each lesson features a downloadable Quicktime video, an .mp3 jam track, and a .pdf of the tabs. The included lessons are Jazz Blues 101 in the Keys of Ab, C, D, Eb, F, and G. The combined lessons will teach you a plethora of arpeggios for Dominant 7th chords and how to use those to create improvised lines.
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Total Time: 104 minutes
Price: $24.95 (Regularly $29.94) You save $4.99