Throughout the history of guitar making, collaborations between luthiers and guitarists have influenced the discipline and produced spectacular instruments. A brilliant example of this practice is the new Collings Julian Lage Signature OM1 JL, based on a deep exchange of ideas between the late builder and company founder Bill Collings and contemporary guitar phenom Julian Lage.
Learn how to practice jazz rhythms with a metronome.
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Bringing together elements of early popular and country music, swing jazz, blues, and rural dance hall traditions, Western swing is pure vintage American music.
This workout starts with a C-major scale played in broken thirds. This might be tricky at first, but take it slowly!
When improvising, it is important to be able to outline the harmony of a song with single-note lines
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As a fingerstyle steel-string guitarist, you might assume that your instrument precludes learning classical literature. But this isn’t actually the case.
This Weekly Workout will show how to synchronize the hands through a variety of exercises, concepts, and articulations
Unlike piano, on guitar both hands must work in tandem, with a max of six notes sounding at any one moment
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Because of the complexity of harmony in the standard repertoire and the freedom of expression inherent within the genre, jazz requires that guitarists develop a flexible and diverse chord vocabulary. In this lesson, I’ll look at strategies for building four-part seventh chord voicings, their inversions,…
good technique allows effortless channeling of music through the instrument.
This solo-guitar arrangement moves twice through the song’s simple verse-chorus form, set in the key of E major.
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Guide-tone voicings have long been popular with jazz musicians, including guitarists Grant Green, Jim Hall, and pianist Red Garland
The technique of harmonizing a melodic line with full, dense chord voicings is sometimes referred to as using block chords
This fingerstyle arrangement is set in the key of A major.
