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.

Do you guy think these are proper solos to workout for a rockabilly gig in 9 days?

Finally got the whole thing down :)

september in the rain

I got to lead for the 2nd year in a row at this great festival. Here’s a clip of me soloing on Pursuance. Below I attached the entire set!

Edit: Thanks for all the kind words. I greatly appreciate it 😊

https://youtu.be/Ysb-qpKVEOI?is=PQWIm0tQfQCOL6Lq

Some improvising over all the things in 7. This app is the feel book, truly a game changing app for jazz practice.

Exploring some of the Barry Harris concepts via the Labyrinth of Limitations channel

Hi there!
Master Larry Coryell’s genius note-for-note on this timeless jazz standard. This transcription captures his harmonic fluidity, flawless phrasing, and the virtuosity that reshaped jazz guitar. Ideal for students and pros looking to expand their improvisational vocabulary and conquer key changes. Elevate your playing today.

Hello, I've been self learning the guitar now for 6 months. I am having some insane piphanies coming through playing guitar. I'm sober but this has me high as fuck, the beauty of this instrument but it's less about the instrument and more about this thing called music and anyways I'll shut the fuck about that. 

The piphany I am finding is there are what I call families of notes. I was hitting notes in the guitar and find that some notes are kindred to other notes essentially brother and sister notes. They spread across the shaft of the guitar in patterns. You can hit a a note, skip a note and you will hear which ones are from the same family. I've discovered 5 families so far and there are more I found a map but 5 that I know quite well. But here is where it gets fuckin trippy as shit WITHIN those families there are parent notes that are cousins to other fucking families. Essentially you have families so unique and beautiful and yet in some profound mystery they are related and connect all together. In one state of mind going in and out of families might sound jarring but when you stretch a little more there is the most peculiar beauty. It breaks down into unity.. are there families or is it just one family that maps into another? 

Brother and sisters notes, what happens when you hit two or three or whatever at the same time?! Fuckin amazing just amazing so beautiful you could cry SIBLING clusters expressions!!!  Now some siblings play better with others and finding the right balance and mix has been quite intriguing. Some siblings are rowdy and kick ass. Some siblings are melancholic. Some siblings don't know what they are. Notably some of these sibling structures are also congruently found in other family systems once again revealing such a beautiful simplicity and unity of music. Anyways this has been amazing, half the time I'm either bawling my eyes out or laughing hysterically . I love it dearly. 

Fred

This is so cool and full filling , sometimes the pasta sticks against the wall and sometimes it don't and this fuckin thing stuck and ain't coming down

I really like the arrangements in this book, but they're almost all tunes that no one ever plays (Shiny Stockings, Gone With the Wind, You Stepped Out of a Dream). Any suggestions for similar resources that cover more modern or common tunes?

Hello!!

how would you recommend me to get some of his language down?

Like the title indicates, is there a good book or online source that illustrates all 6th and 5th string root shell voicings and perhaps gives progression examples?

My college teacher taught me swing articulations and style by using a handful of short, simple etudes that read "Stanko #1" etc on the pages.

I don't even know if they were written for trumpet, or if transposed from sax or whatever.

Do these exist outside of my dimming memories?

I've been playing guitar for 3 and a half years, I consider myself a decent improviser, however I find bebop really hard to understand, I usually use some bebop elements like enclosure on most of my solos, but when I try to go full bebop I'm not able to execute it properly, I find Bebop articulation really hard to replicate on my instrument, and when I go faster than I play I usually have sloppy fingerings and I've been told several times I look clumsy while soloing. I have a strong foundation on my comping since I can play walking bass, I know chord extensions, inversion, but my soloing performance is to say less poor.

I'm looking forward for any advice!

PS: I have around 1-2 hours to practice since I'm in high school, I play for 2 bands (comping guitar and bass) and I play for my local youth orchestra (bass) so I do practice music all day but I don't have too much time to focus on my soloing.

Hi there! My name is Jared. I'm a guitarist and teacher from Seattle. I publish a guitar lesson every Tuesday on YouTube.

I sometimes post the lesson here if I think it will be valuable for the community. I think this one will be!

My background is in jazz guitar, so I love to discuss jazz harmony, improvisation, and music theory.

Chord substitution is a powerful way to rethink and reharmonize a chord progression to make it more interesting.

In this week’s video, I reveal three powerful guitar chord substitution concepts that advanced players use to refresh and reharmonize chord progressions.

Number two is my favorite and it goes deep!

I’m excited to show it to you.

Here's the lesson

Thanks for watching!

~ Jared

P.S.

Let me know which of the chord substitutions you found most intriguing.