Jazz Guitar Lesson: Beginning Jazz Blues Improvisation - Jazz Guitar Scales Shortcut (easy)
Published on 17 March 2016
Jazz Guitar Lesson: Beginning Jazz Blues Improvisation - Jazz Guitar Scales Shortcut (easy)
Your first experience trying to improvise in a Jazz guitar context can be scary. There's a lot of chord changes and lots of scales, arpeggios, modes (etc.) to learn.
So here's the shortcut: two pentatonic scales. Improvise on Bb blues. Go!
In this video, we will be exchanging full 12-bar choruses (soloing) together. Lots of fun. Backing track below. Use this little trick to play NICE jazz guitar solos using TWO scales (instead of dozens) ... Enjoy! :-)
The Chords and Scales in this PDF:
http://www.jazzguitarlessons.net/support-files/jazz-guitar-beginning-jazz-blues-improvisation.pdf
The Bb Blues Backing Track:
http://www.marcandreseguin.com/jgl-audio/4-choruses-b-flat-blues.m4a
Articles / Videos Series on Pentatonics:
http://blog.jazzguitarlessons.net/2014/05/15/jazz-guitar-pentatonics-part-1-what-is-the-pentatonic-scale/
The ONE Lick Every Jazz Guitarist should know (video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqvJtPIM6PY
See all the BLUES resources on the website:
http://www.jazzguitarlessons.net/jazz-guitar-blues-0.html
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