Jazz Guitar

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Here you find a selection of basic jazz guitar chords in the key of F. There are 2 basic voicings available :
1 7 3 5
1 5 7 3

These voicings are enough to start working on any jazz standard by using basic chord shapes. Beside the chord charts you find 2 exercises where you learn how to work with those 2 types of voicings. This is a I II V I and a I VI II V progression.
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Here you find a very cool selection of intermediate smooth jazz guitar licks in the Wes Montgomery style. They fit perfect with the backing track with the chord progression : Gm7 / Gm7 / Ebmaj7 / Ebmaj7 / Cm7 / Cm7 / Fsus / F
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track of some easy mixolydian mode jazz guitar licks which you can use on the blues " Freddy Freeloader " as heard on the recording " Kind Of Blue " by Miles Davis. This is a great tune and example where you can use the mixolydian mode. The backing track is from " Fredy Freeloader " and is in 132 bpm.
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Here you find the tabs of a nice selection of chords which you can use over a simple smooth jazz progression with the following chords : Gm7 / Gm7 / Ebmaj7 / Ebmaj7 / Cm7 / Cm7 / Fsus9 / F
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track of an arrangement of mine of the jazzstandard " Making Woopee " for jazz guitar. The backing track is in 60bpm.
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Here you find some first technical exercises where you learn the modes and arpeggios of this smooth jazz tune in Gm. The backing track is in 80 bpm so that you can slowly build up your speed on the guitar.
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Here you find a cool and easy set of basic bossa nova guitar rhythm guitar patterns which are great to start the journey of latin and bossa nova rhythm guitar. I strongly recommend that you play them with finger picking since thats the traditional way to do so. The clave you hear in the backing track fits to all versions of the rhythm guitar patterns I wrote for you guys.
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Here you find the tabs of the chords and the melody of the great jazz tune " Dream A Little Dream Of Me " - the backing track is in 90 bpm and played with drum, bass and guitar.
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Here you find the tabs of cool and smooth jazz blues guitar chords of a Blues in the key of F which is the standard key in jazz blues. The backing track is only drum and bass.
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Here you find some tabs of the theory related to the backing you can downlod. You find the chord progression and the modes you can use on those chords.
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Here you find 2 choruses of easy jazz guitar blues phrasing licks over a jazz blues in the key of Bb.
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Misty - Jazz Guitar Tabs and 3 Chorus Backing Track
Here you find the tabs of the very popular jazz standard " Misty " - I wrote a version for you where you can play the theme. If you want to play the chords as well then please take the selection which I added for you. Those chords follow the melody so they work perfect if somebody is playing the melody. I have also added a backing track with 3 chorus of the AABA section of misty. In the 1st and 3rd chorus I follow the melody with the chords and in the middle part you can improvise the way you want.
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Here you find the tabs, the backing track and the guitar pro file for a cool minor jazz guitar blues in the key of Cm.
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Here you find the tabs of the theme and the guitar chords of Stevie Wonders " You Are The Sunshine Of My Life " & a nice backing track where I played the piano. Additional you find the sheetmusic from the Realbook for those who are good in sight reading music.
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Here you find some basic ideas how to play a clave in a bossa nova track on the progression Am7 / D7 - it starts with a simple one note figure and ends with chords. Beside that you find some first easy and tastful melody ideas which you can pratice with the backing track. The backing track has the clave of this exercise included.
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Here you find a wonderful chordprogression in the Neo Soul - Funky Conga Grooe genre in the key of Bm. The guitar pattern is easiest played with finger style guitar.
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Here you find a few examples with go along with the timing and space exercises showed in the Basic Jazz Guitar Improvisation 7 tutorial. The examples are very simple but it's crucial that you make them all with your foot tapping on 2 & 4. The backing track is supporting you with the high hat on 2 & 4
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Here you find a wonderful chordprogression in the Neo Soul - Bossa Nova genre in the key of D. The guitar pattern is easiest played with finger style guitar. You can play the melody with the backing track added.
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Here you find the tabs, chords and the sheetmusic of Charlie Chaplins " Smile " together with a nice backing track where the piano takes the written melody so that you can play unisono.
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Here you find a selection of technical exercises and licks for basic smooth jazz by just using the pentatonics and the blues scale. The backing track is only on 80 bpm which is quite slow and this gives you the opportunity to get those exercises done together with a backing track. Pay attention to a nice and fluent phrasing will you practice those exercises and licks.
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Here you find some exercises and licks which shall help you to manage a II-7b5 V7 I-7 progression in Am. The backing track is in 100 bpm so that you can practice those exercises and licks.
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Here you find a selection of smooth jazz guitar licks in a chilling vibe. There are 3 types of ideas available - chord licks, octave licks and single note licks. They all fit perfect to the backing track added.
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Here you find some exercises for basic jazz guitar improvisation where you learn the first steps of cool phrasing and the " play & rest " concept. The backing track is only on G7 so you don't need to worry about chord changes.
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Here you find the tabs of the " St. Louis " including an old style rhythm guitar and the theme of the first 2 parts which are played most. I also added the " real book " sheet music where you can also check out the last part. The backing track is on 100 bpm.
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