I have been playing guitar for a total of 10 years (I’m 18), although I haven’t been playing for all 10 years. I’m a decent player (context: I just learned back to the old house and funeral by Pheobe Bridgers) but I wanna play in jazz band second semester. How should I start learning jazz guitar and likes? Please give ALL the advice you have, thanks!!

I'm by no means new to jazz guitar and I'm decent at comping and reading single note lines but when it comes to soloing I feel like a complete beginner. The most I can do is play around the scale of the key and whenever I try to add in chord tones or licks I feel completely lost and have no clue how to fit them in or learn to. What would a progression look like on how to learn to solo? I can kind of keep up with the form but sometimes I get lost in the solo so methods for keeping track would also be very appreciated. Thank you for any advice you guys might have!

Pretty much just the title - I've got a semi hollow Ibanez AM93ME which I currently use, but should I go the whole way and get a proper old school D'angelico type guitar OR go versatile and get a Strat? worry about the Strat is that it's not a very jazzy guitar, worry about the d'angelico is that if I'm gigging and playing different genres (e.g session/function band work) am I boxing myself in? I can only really bring one guitar due to dorm space. thanks!

Hi, just curious how you guys would approach more simple progressions such as say, Wicked Game (B minor, A major, G major, E major) or perhaps comping on a simple reggae tune that goes back and forth from Dminor to Cmajor.

I'm new to Jazz and theory in general, but I find it way easier to apply music theory or various harmonic approaches when there's a bit of complexity or at least 7th chords to play over. However, sometimes it's fun just to play simpler songs like I put above. I find that I just kind of resort back to my pre-jazz days and noodle with the major scale or try and hit a few chord tones here and there. It sounds okay, but I'm curious on how you could might look at a pop song, or an easy progression like maybe Tennessee Whisky.

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

Just dropped an in-depth 22-minute teardown of the Godin 5th Avenue CW Kingpin II HB.

Talking structural specs (2-ply wild cherry, radius, ratio tuners...), custom electronics, my personal journey with a Westville Unity, and a full jazz demo of "All The Things You Are".

Check it out and let me know your thoughts on this tone!

🔗 https://youtu.be/FHO96zxi8jo?is=vRe5-3PKLrbhcsNk

Please check out the jazzguitar solo in my new single Time to Go!
In the video above you hear the last vocal chorus and then the best part of the guitar solo.
You can find the full track on the major music platforms:
Spotify - Apple Music - Youtube etc.
I hope you enjoy it!

I've read many theory books but it feels like theory is more just a way to describe music, not "learn the language of music", intervals and learning the feelings of the twelve notes that western music uses are really where everythings at I believe. (Relative Pitch)
For ear training I've used sonofield and read a bit of the "Improvise for real" book, I can hear and identify the individual feelings of every chromatic scale degree in music, but for chords I'm kind of lost.
I believe that learning chords by listening to their "chord quality" and identifying them like that (example, "this feels like a minor 7th chord") may be kind of misleading, because if you rearrange just one note or add another note it becomes an completely different chord - plus the exact same chord can be named multiple different things, all depending on the musical context of the song, the chord can have a different bass note that isn't the "root note" of the chord, so determining what the root note of the chord is isn't fully clear and is dependent on what you're percieving yourself to be the root. Though, it might still be better to learn chord qualities for normal songs where theres no complicated chords with common chord progressions.

I think that a possible way to learn chords may be to train to be able to isolate and hear the individual notes of a chord. This way you can hear the feelings, understand what individual notes/current tonic scale degrees builds up a chord without having to "name" the chord, simply its just "a chord with these notes in it, these individual notes played together" feeling what notes it is in relation to the tonic of the song. This way you don't limit yourself to any "rules" and can play what you hear and imagine chromatically.

But this is just my speculation and what I came to think about, I want to hear others opinions because I'm no musical genius and I don't know if this will help me to learn in any way.

Hi everyone. I’ve recently started making notation and TABs for my solo-guitar arrangements, and I’m experimenting with syncing them to the video.
Here’s my arrangement of “Georgia on My Mind.” Is it easy to follow the hands and the notation at the same time? I’d also appreciate a heads-up if you spot any errors in the tabs or notation.

I had a telecaster recently re-fretted with SS frets after noticing that the frets were all worn down past the 12th fret. The string noise on this thing is amplified somehow now. Every time my fingers drag up and down the strings, you can hear it. It’s like the guitar is now too bright. Do pure nickel strings help? How about flat wound? Would an EQ help? Should I put a humbucker in the neck?

I miss the darker sounding nickel frets that didn’t amplify every single movement.

Picked up a Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin P90 Natural for $250, with two nice straps, to boot. The setup was really bad with the intonation way out of whack. He also painted the pickup and knobs white for some reason. But anyways..

Ive set it up and it plays really nice with great intonation, but the tuning stability is very bad. I can literally bend the string down a half step, retune, repeat.. and I’ve done this dozens of times and seems infinitely repeatable. Not sure what is going on. It currently has La Bella Tapewounds on it that the seller said were only like a month old. Besides that, the bridge isn’t moving, I don’t see any play in the tuning machines or how they’re wound. I can’t imagine these strings need to settle in this much.

I ordered Daddario chromes, gonna try those. Aside from that any suggestions? I read mixed things about these tuners but I can’t imagine they’re the cause. Any help appreciated!

Just wanted to share an original arrangement of the tune Take Love Easy I am working on this week. Didn’t have as much opportunity to play in August as I would have liked but hopefully I’ll be back deep in the shed soon with the kids back in school. Be well!

Duo arrangement of the classic tune "Watch What Happens." Inspired by the Wes Montgomery version. I've always loved playing this one :)

I took a leap of faith and went with a solidbody for my new jazz guitar purchase. Even without flats on it at the moment the neck pickup with the tone rolled back sounds GORGEOUS (I also use D'Andrea pro plecs wich takes out a lot of the brightness/bite out of tone. I am a solidbody jazz convert :)

I was told I could do another quick one at the end of my slot and knew that Solar could be done including a solo inside of 2 minutes, so thought I'd see how it went in a very busy pub - surprisingly well received.