Guitar Jar features a wide range of lessons tailored to suit most genres of music, including rhythm playing, blues, jazz, fusion, technical and more.
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Difficulty rating: Medium |
Guitar Jar’s very own Lewis Turner takes us through the concepts of soloing in the Ionian mode.
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Guitar Jar has had a fair few requests over recent months for a guitar lesson demonstrating how to play “Jar of Hearts” by Christina Perri.
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Guitar Jar contributor and jazz guitarist Warren Greig expands on his previous diminished guitar scale lesson by expanding deeper into diminished scale concepts.
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Guitar Jar contributor and jazz guitarist Warren Greig shares 30 years of guitar playing experience in this article, discussing the theory behind diminished sounds and how they can be applied to the guitar fretboard.
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Difficulty rating: Difficult |
Lewis Turner takes us through the techniques of Yngwie Malmsteen.
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Guitar Jar contributor, Ed Peczek takes us through the importance of Fretting Hand Positioning, highlighting the contributing factors of finger & thumb placement & pressure.
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Difficulty rating: Difficult |
Lewis Turner takes us through the techniques of the technically gifted guitarist, Allan Holdsworth.
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Difficulty rating: Medium – Difficult |
Stuck in a rut with your practice regime? Need some inspiration? Lewis Turner takes us through 11 guitar licks, that use 11 different approaches over the same backing track.
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Difficulty rating: Beginner-Intermediate |
Slurs, commonly referred to as hammer ons or pull offs (depending on the direction of the slur) are a very popular technique used throughout a whole range of styles from classical through to speed metal. I’m going to show you exactly what you need to do in order to learn this incredibly useful technique.
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Difficulty rating: Medium |
Playing over changes is the term used to describe improvising over various chords that aren’t all contained within the same key. This is often associated with jazz, as many jazz tunes constantly change key. This is considered by many to be the most challenging thing to do in improvising regardless of the instrument you play. However, I believe that with the correct instruction and methodical approach, it’s well within anyone’s capability.
Is a lack of musical theory a hindrance to the musical development and growth of the guitarist? Guitar Jar contributor Warren Greig shares his thoughts on the effectiveness of modern guitar tuition books vs traditional methods of reading musical notation.
Continue reading “Learning Jazz Guitar: Method books — help or hindrance?” »
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Difficulty rating: Medium – Difficult |
Canadian Jazz guitarist Warren Greig delivers his first jazz guitar lesson for Guitar Jar readers by focussing on improving jazz soloing techniques using triads.
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Difficulty rating: Medium – Difficult |
Many years ago I was playing a gig with a great drummer and good friend of mine. I thought I played the gig quite well, but at the end my drummer friend pointed out to me that on a couple of the tunes I was pushing and playing in front of the beat slightly. The initial reaction in my head was that he was talking nonsense; after all I had spent years playing to a metronome, backing tracks and bands.
Continue reading “Guitar Lesson: Funk, Groove and Rhythm Timing” »
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Difficulty rating: Medium – Difficult |
“Blue Bossa” is a 16 bar bossa nova jazz standard, written by trumpeter Kenny Dorham. The original version can be found on “The Best of Kenny Dorham – Blue note years” (Blue Note). Many great players have covered this tune including; Pat Martino, Joe Pass, George Benson, Kenny Burrell and a great duo version by Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea. Blue Bossa is also a tune that is used as a study piece in many music colleges, as it is a good introduction to playing and improvising over jazz tunes due to it being harmonically quite simple.
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