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This “Boring” Triad Exercise Will Save You Years! (But Most Ignore It)

This triad exercise is the key to nailing the jazz sound in your solos, but like most players, I ignored it because it seemed stupid and boring. The thing is, it’s the one exercise...

“A great way to break away from the typical blues soloing sound of pentatonic scales”: How to use dominant 7 arpeggios i...

Because you can't have enough exit ramps from traditional blues phrases, here's how you can use the notes of a dominant 7 chord to spice up your solos

The 3 Most Important Arpeggios For Jazz

You only need 3 arpeggios to make your solos sound like real jazz, but most students never learn them and get stuck practicing the wrong things. So, in this video, I will show you...

Give me 8 minutes, I’ll save you 2 years of jazz guitar trial and error

The #1 reason your solos sound nothing like the jazz greats is that you’re only focusing on WHAT notes to play, but not HOW to actually play them. So in this video, I’m going to sh...

Jazz Guitar Today Lesson: Variations On Standard Jazz Blues Chord Changes – Part 1

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The SIMPLE Jazz Chords That Every PRO Guitarist LOVES

Pro jazz guitarists almost never play the big chords. And if you’ve been taught jazz guitar the traditional way, nobody probably told you that. So in this video, I’ll show you a sy...

The One Barry Harris Rule That Changed Everything

The One Barry Harris Rule That Changed Everything Barry Harris has one rule for practice that turns your boring scale exercises into real jazz lines. And once I learned this at a m...

“Ithought, ‘Is the guitar in open G tuning?’ But I soon discovered it wasn’t a standard guitar at all”: Charlie Starr on...

The Blackberry Smoke guitarist gives us a lesson in how to sound like you've got a B-Bender, even if you don't

The Jazz Chord Rules Every Pro Knows But Nobody Teaches

Did you ever look at a jazz chart and think, “I have NO idea how to play this?” I’ve been there too, but once I discovered the 3 simple rules that every pro knows but most guitaris...

Just Practice Like THIS Every Day

Ever feel like you practice for hours, but you just don’t get any better? Well, the fix is just one simple tweak that will finally get you unstuck. In this video, I’m going to show...

May 2026 Teaching Artist Lesson Recap

This month’s TA lessons cover a wide range of topics: Argentinean jazz licks, the boom chuck, harp harmonics, slide blues, and flatpicking bass runs.

Jazz Guitar Today Lesson: “Pensative”

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“I bent up from the 21st fret and broke the first string – I played the rest of the solo without it”: Hidden for four de...

Celtic rock bagpipe phrasing, THAT blazing arpeggio and a crazy bend that broke a string – learn how Brett Garsed played his solo in this exclusive feature

Jazz Guitar Today Lesson: “Central Park West”

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Spice up your drum solos with this great ostinato from Gregg Bissonette 🔥

“Without the added bends, this riff would sound a little stale and boring”: Spiritbox's Mike Stringer shows you how sync...

Your 21st-century metal workshop is in session, as Stringer shows you how to play Spiritbox's Holy Roller

Jazz Guitar Isn’t Hard. It’s Misunderstood

Here’s what everyone gets wrong: Jazz guitar isn’t nearly as complicated as people make it. It’s misunderstood, and the real issue is how it’s taught. Most lessons overload you wit...

4 Steely Dan Classics That Were Enlivened by Unforgettable Guitar Solos

4 Steely Dan Classics That Were Enlivened by Unforgettable Guitar Solos

Dida Pelled: Sultry Swing, Blissful Blues

Jazz and blues have different feels and styles. There's plenty of room for an artist to explore possibilities therein, bringing along influences and preferences, creating a distinc...

“A Strat with a P-90 at the bridge and a Jazzmaster pickup at the neck is not going to sound like anything else Fender m...

Posen's new album, Bannatyne, finds the Canadian flipping the script for rock guitar, exploring in full the creative potential of that quite brilliant signature Strat of his

The ONLY 5 Chord Progressions You Need To Play Jazz (That Nobody Teaches)

Did you ever look at a jazz chart only to get overwhelmed with lots of complicated chords? After years of teaching, I realized most players never learn this shortcut that makes jaz...

Ueberschall releases Jazz Ballads (Elastik Loop Pack)

Ueberschall has released Jazz Ballads, a new addition to their range of loop libraries for the Elastik player. Here is what they say about this construction-kit-based title: Jazz...

“It can be at least as fast as straight flatpicking, if not faster, and also easier to do”: Used by everyone from Brad P...

In his inaugural Guitar World column, the great Corey Congilio demonstrates how all players can benefit from a technique borrowed from country players