Jazz Chords Workshop Lesson 4

Welcome to Lesson 4 of the Jazz Chords Workshop.  Lesson 4 introduces the next voicing group for the middle group of strings centred around the 12th and 15th frets. I call this Group D Voicings. This is the final group of voicings for the middle four strings. By the...

Jazz Chords Workshop Lesson 3

Welcome to Lesson 3 of the Jazz Chords Workshop.  Lesson 3 introduces the next voicing group for the middle group of strings centred around the 10th and 13th frets. Let us call this Group C Voicings (Middle Set) Click the video below to watch the lesson. Learning Aids...

Jazz Chords Workshop Lesson 2

Welcome to Lesson 2 of the Jazz Chords Workshop.  If this is your first time here, I highly recommend attending lesson 1 before continuing this lesson. Click here for lesson 1.  Lesson 2 introduces the next voicing group for the middle group of strings centred around...

Jazz Chords Workshop Lesson 1

Welcome to the Jazz Chords Workshop. Here we will introduce the fundamental 7th chords as used in the Jazz II-V-I progressions. I will assume you already have some basic music theory.  For the entire course, we will be using the chord progression (shown right)...

Guide Tone Targeting

The next level of chord tone soloing is Guide Tone Targeting. Guide Tones (sometimes called ‘Colour Tones’) are essentially the 3rd’s and 7ths of a chord. Therefore, Guide Tone Targeting is the approach of targeting of these specific chord tones when...