The basic Jazz Guitar Chord eBook

New at www.jazzguitar.be: The Basic Jazz Guitar Chord Book

This free ebook starts with a tutorial on how to construct guitar chords. It talks about triads, seventh chords, avoid notes, tensions and more.
The rear end of the book contains guitar chord charts of the basic jazz guitar chords that are essential knowledge for any jazz guitar player.

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All About Chords

The latest 3 lessons on www.jazzguitar.be are all about chords and chord progressions:

-Jazz guitar chord inversions: basic chord voicings that simplify memorizing chord inversions.

-Blues chord progressions and variations: variations on the 12 bar blues.

-Jazz Chord Progressions: the most popular jazz chord progressions, standards that use them and the guitarists who played them..

Jazz guitarist Grassel is making his way back from near death

Jazz Guitarist Jack Grassel nearly died from a rare staph infection.
Luckily he's recovering and he is making his way back.

"Basically, I had to relearn the guitar," he said. "I had lost a lot of dexterity for playing guitar, and worse, I had forgotten much of the material I knew. Some of it gradually came back on its own, but a lot of my technique and material I play required lots of work and concentration."


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Big news for all the Cubase users amongst us: Yamaha acquires all common stock of Steinberg.

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