To help you become the best guitarist that you can be you will find a progressive path below. Start at the start or jump in at any point if you already know the previous material.
Beginner Jazz Guitar
If you are new to jazz guitar or are playing jazz guitar before the intermediate stage then you need to get this discounted beginner jazz guitar eBook bundle. There are 4 books with well over 400 pages to work through to ensure that you cover all bases when it comes to jazz guitar. This includes essential jazz guitar chords, how to improvise, 50 ready-made licks to make you sound great straight-away and much, much more!
Arrange Any Song For Solo Guitar
As an intermediate or advanced guitarist you should definitely know how to arrange any song for solo guitar so check out this 2 hour video which explains exactly what you need to know. I cannot emphasise enough how important this skill is so get cracking here first.
Counterpoint – From Basics to Mastery
Once you can arrange any song for solo guitar you need to work on counterpoint. All the greats use and have used counterpoint from Ben Monder to Joe Pass to The Beatles so you need to know how to use modern counterpoint properly. How to Master Modern Counterpoint starts with species counterpoint which is the backbone of all counterpoint teachings so start here.
As great companions to this course there are a number of ebooks available including 9 Counterpoint Etudes for Solo Guitar and Two-Part Species Counterpoint Compositions for Guitar.
With counterpoint basics firmly under your command you can now apply counterpoint to jazz standards for solo guitar. Here you will start to improvise over jazz standards using certain counterpoint techniques. This is a very practical course designed to get you playing rather than digging through theory.
Quartal Harmony and Polytonality
Some ebooks which you will find useful at this stage of your development are Quartal and Quintal harmony for Guitarists and Trinity Polytonality which will really put some color into your playing! Quartal harmony has certainly become a favourite sound of mine!!
Modulations to Color Your Playing
Of course playing the same tunes the same ways gets boring fast so now it’s time to put color into your playing with John Stowell’s modulation course which includes John’s near 100 page “The Collection” ebook as a bonus. As part of the course John plays the tunes in a duo setting with Mike Doolin. These duo tunes are worth the price of admission alone!!
Diminished and Altered Structures
First learn how to apply different tone groups to your diminished playing. This is essential as you can play almost all jazz standards with diminished chords!
Now it’s time to strengthen and weaken the resolutions of your lines using diminished and altered structures. Using this material sounds so great and works in solo guitar context to. As above, there is also a bonus ebook included with this course. This course is essential if you want to call yourself an advanced guitarist.
By following this progressive guitar pathway you will become a much better player in a much shorter time.
Enjoy!!
