Our newest set of jam tracks is called Let’s Jam! Jazz Standards. These ten backing tracks will cover some of the most played jazz guitar tunes of all time. A beginning player can use this as an introduction to jazz and work on playing along with the chords. For the more experienced guitarist, this collection can be used to create and practice solos and riffs or as a warmup for a gig. Each track contains bass, drums, and usually either a keyboard or rhythm guitar so that there is room for you to take the spotlight. The included book contains the progressions, chord charts, suggested scales, and an example lick. Check out the product page for the full details and to listen to sample tracks. The included songs are:
All the Things You Are
Blue Bossa
Night and Day
Sugar
Take the ‘A’ Train
Green Dolphin Street
Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
There Is No Greater Love
Stella by Starlight
Yesterdays
Voice Leading is a jazz term that can get as complicated as you want it to be. But the core idea is creating a melody within a chord progression. By using different voicings, you can rely on harmonic movement to supply the melody. In our new Voice Leading Within the 2-5-1 free lesson, Guy will show you two basic examples of this. You will learn how to play a 2-5-1 jazz guitar progression in the key of C and F. Guy will teach you how to play each of the chords in the progression and then discuss the music theory involved. You can view the lesson video below or head over to the lesson page for the chord charts. If you want to learn more about 2-5-1 chord voicings, check out our 2-5-1 Progression in Two Keys premium lesson.
Over the last couple of months we’ve released a series of guitar lessons by David Ellis that cover basic bluegrass lead playing. You can now buy those six lessons with one click as the Easy Flatpicking Songs Package and save $5.99 over the standard price. The lessons will teach you beginning to intermediate level breaks for Wildwood Flower, Old Joe Clark, John Hardy, Way Downtown, Cripple Creek, Shady Grove, 9lb Hammer, Salt Creek, and Red Haired Boy. These are twelve songs that are commonly played at bluegrass jams and would be known by most of your fellow pickers. Watch the demo below or check out the lesson page to get an idea for the difficulty level and style. If you are looking for something a little more advanced you should check out our Flapticking Guitar Songs book download which features some great tabs. In the more general songbook style we also have the Bluegrass Fakebook
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We’ve previously covered B.B. King’s soloing style in both free lessons and premium guitar lessons. This week we released two new videos that continue our discussion on using the B.B. “box position”. In these lessons we’ll focus on licks from the Major Pentatonic Scale. We’ll use an upbeat groove in Bb as our backing track and learn a couple of 12 bar solos. Jody will teach you how to play each solo in detail making sure understand the concepts and techniques being used. Check out the lessons page for more info or watch the demo below.
Our newest set of jam tracks is called Let’s Jam! Jazz Standards. These ten backing tracks will cover some of the most played jazz guitar tunes of all time. A beginning player can use this as an introduction to jazz and work on playing along with the chords. For the more experienced guitarist, this collection can be used to create and practice solos and riffs or as a warmup for a gig. Each track contains bass, drums, and usually either a keyboard or rhythm guitar so that there is room for you to take the spotlight. The included book contains the progressions, chord charts, suggested scales, and an example lick. Check out the product page for the full details and to listen to sample tracks. The included songs are:
