by Paul Roth | Nov 9, 2017 | Lead, Scales, Solo
This week’s post is inspired by one of our subscribers so thanks again for all you support, readership and feedback. For any beginner player (and even intermediate or advanced) improvisation can be daunting, I’ve seen this many times on...
by Paul Roth | Oct 26, 2017 | Chords, Musicianship
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...
by Paul Roth | Oct 19, 2017 | Chords
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...
by Paul Roth | Oct 13, 2017 | Musicianship
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...
by Paul Roth | Aug 31, 2017 | Chords, Lead, Musicianship, Solo
3rds and 6th intervals on the guitar are some of my favourite things to use to create riffs or just give a bit more interest to some lead parts. Some great examples of this already include Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl, John Mayer’s Belief Cat...
