The Never Ending Guitar Lick

Do you know these guitar licks that seem to go on forever? Well, here are 3 of them. 

The first lick is one of mine, a good exercise to get some common chromatic patterns into your fingers. The second one is a Pat Metheny lick, that amazing solo break from Third Wind.  The third lick is one from Pat Martino.

You can find all 3 of them here:

Never Ending Jazz Guitar Licks

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Put Some Jazz In Your Guitar Scales: Chromatic Playing

I just published a new guitar lesson, a guest lesson by Matthew Warnock.  In this lesson you'll learn how to add chromatic notes to your scales and arpeggios.  Chromatic playings is an essential ellement of the jazz sound.

The link to the lesson:

http://www.jazzguitar.be/chromatics.html

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How to Get a Jazz Guitar Tone: Amps

Many aspiring jazz guitarists wonder how to get a good jazz guitar tone.  The key is getting the swing feel in your ears and fingers and getting the right gear.  In this article I made an overview of the guitar amps that are the most popular in jazz:

How to Get a Jazz Guitar Tone: Guitar Amps

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14 Ways To Play Over Major Guitar Chords

There's a new jazz guitar lesson @ Jazzguitar.be, about the different scales and arpeggios you can use to improvise over major chords.

Click on the link to go to the lesson:

How To Improvise Over Major Chords...

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Jazz Guitar Class With Pat Metheny

Here are some videos of a Pat Metheny master class.

The warm up:

Turnaround:

All The Things You Are:

Related Links:

Pat Metheny Guitar Licks
Pat Metheny's Guitar Gear
Pat Metheny Solo Transcriptions

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Jazz Guitar Endings

The approaching end of 2007 inspired me to write a tutorial about jazz guitar endings:

10 Ways To End A Jazz Song

Do you know more interesting ways to end a song? Let us know at the Jazz Guitar Forum...

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Jazz Guitar Chords and How To Find Them

I get a lot of emails from guitarists asking me how to play this or that chord on the guitar.  Please show me how to play a G7b9, or a Bm7b5(11)...?  Now, I don't mind these emails and I will answer them (although it usually takes a while), but what I want to say is: it's easy to find these chords all by yourself, even if you have never played the particular chord before.  All you need to do is learn a little music theory once and you'll never have to ask for a chord again.

I explain it all here: How To Make Your Own Guitar Chords

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8 String Guitar: Jason Crawford Plays I'll Remember April [Video]

Jason Crawford is an 8-string solo jazz guitarist who actually makes some music with his instrument. I like the way he lays out the theme of "I'll Remember April" in this video, but I'm not very impressed with the impro though. Not that I'd do it better than him, I never even touched a 7- or 8-string guitar (and I'm not planning to, to be honest). Anyway, Jason does a good job on the 8-string, this theme really swings!

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Interview With Pat Metheny

I just read an interesting interview with Pat Metheny in the Japan Times Online. He talks about the limitations of the guitar and that he only sees the guitar as a means to an end.

"I don't really care about the guitar", he says.

I have the same attitude towards my instrument, I'm not really a guitar freak. Are you?

Here's a link to the interview:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fm20070914a1.html

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Boy Who Started Playing Drums When He Was 2 Years Old

How old were you when you started playing guitar? I started rather late, I was 16 when I bought my first guitar. I was completely uniterested in music until I was about 15 and then some friends started taking music lessons. Sometimes I wonder how my skills on the guitar would be if I had been playing since I was, let's say 5 or 6. The boy in this video started playing drums when he was 2. You can see his musical evolution going from 2 to 11 years old.

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