Creating a Good Chord-Melody (Advanced)

Creating a Good Chord-Melody (Advanced)

Today we have another more advanced topic (jazz nerds rejoice), all about creating chord melodies. This can be done compositionally, or with any pop/folk song, but today it’s going to be focused on taking that from a jazz standard. Then, of course, if you are...
7th Chord Inversions (Advanced)

7th Chord Inversions (Advanced)

This week’s blog will be relatively short, really aimed at more advanced players looking at delving into jazz, or at least looking to have some jazz influence in their playing.   A lot of the principles for learning these inversions are similar to those...
5 Essential Skills for an Intermediate Guitarist

5 Essential Skills for an Intermediate Guitarist

Of course, any intermediate guitarist would have more than just these 5 skills, and you may actually be an intermediate guitarist without some of these skills. So it’s important to highlight, that this isn’t a post made to peg you in a certain level, but...