This page provides a free guitar cheat sheet with tab, score and chord shapes about the main types of scales harmonized in seventh chords :  Melodic Minor Diatonic Major Scale Natural Minor Scale Harmonic Minor Scale ..read more

Slash chords, distinguished by a chord followed by a forward slash and a bass note (e.g., C/G), are a powerful tool for enriching your guitar sound. This guitar lesson for beginners unravels the mystery behind slash chords, revealing how they redefine familiar shapes and add a touch of sophistication to your chord progressions ..read more

Learning jazz guitar requires a systematic and disciplined practice routine. Here's a comprehensive practice plan bringing together 10 essential points to help you develop your jazz guitar skills.  ..read more

In this short guitar lesson you will learn how to play 6 types of altered and extented dominant chords (7, 7b9, 9, 7b5, 7b5b9, 9b5) to expand your harmonic vocabulary ..read more

Diminished 7 chords bring a distinctive, mysterious sound to music. Widely used in jazz and classical genres, they infuse tension and creativity into your playing. This guitar lesson explains how they are built and how to use them thanks to four easy examples ..read more

The harmonic minor scale is a captivating and versatile scale used in various musical genres, known for its distinctive sound due to the raised seventh degree compared to the natural minor scale. By understanding both chords derived from this scale and the modes within it, you can create compelling harmonic progressions and melodic lines. Here's an introduction on how to combine chords and modes derived from the harmonic minor scale, including ..read more

Guest Post By Jack Handyside at pickupmusic.com Jazz standards are some of the most beautiful and interesting pieces of music ever written, but learning these complex songs and committing them to memory can feel overwhelming if you don’t know where to start. Luckily for you, we’re here to help! This article will introduce you to a tried and true, eight-step method that you can use to learn any jazz standard. Our focus today ..read more

Jazz music, known for its improvisational nature and rich harmonic complexities, is a genre that heavily relies on scales for melodic expression and harmonic exploration. Understanding essential scales is a crucial step in comprehending its harmonic structure and developing improvisational skills. Here's an overview of eight fundamental jazz scales ideal for beginners ..read more

This guitar theory lesson about harmonic equivalents provides six examples, that demonstrate how dominant seventh chords (rootless, altered or extended) can also be considered as other types of chords (min6, dim7, 7 ..read more

This page offers a serie of funky groove backing tracks for bass players ..read more