Jazz

Easy Bebop Jazz Lick Pat Martino style

In this Guitar Control video lesson Jon McLennan, will teach you a pretty basic bebop lick in the style of Pat Martino. This is a lick in the style of Pat Martino, one of my favorite jazz players, just a monster guitar player. And his right hand is just so articulate and so clean and

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II V I Jazz Guitar Variations | Easy Ways to Do It

Hey guys! In this guitar lesson, I will teach you some cool variations for the V chord. Ofcourse, I´m talking about the II V I jazz chord progression. Hope you like it!!! Watch the video and please like us and comment on youtube. Also do me a favor and subscribe to our Youtube channel! Hey,

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Easy Killer Jazzy Guitar Lick In The Key Of A

Hey guys, here’s a guitar lick from John Maclennan and has a really catchy jazz sound to it. It’s played over a “II V I” progression, the most common jazz chord progression. Check it out! Hi, I’m John McClennan and I’m here today with Guitar Control and I’m excited to bring you this jazzy lick.

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Jazz

Beautiful Love – Jazz Standard

Playin a nice jazz standard… Maybe next time make it more swinging and punchy – i just did a simple ballad arrangement… Looks like I flubbed the Bb7#11 chord at 0:48 oh well… And yes it would send better if i mic’d the amp instead of using camera mix and also use a hollow body…

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Easy Way to Play Jazz Guitar Lick With Bebop Scale

Hi, my name is John McClennan and I’m here todaywith Guitar Control and I’m excited to bring youthis video. I hope you guys are doing fantastic. Let’s take a look at this lick. It’s slightlyjazzy and it uses something that is called thebebop scale. Basically I think of this as beingapplied over a D7 or

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Major 7 Improvisation

Major 7 chords are amoung my favorite chords. They have a very beautiful, mellow quality to them. You can do a lot of cool things on the guitar with some very simple musical ideas. For example, let’s take a 2 chord progression – Amaj7 to Dmaj7. We can spice it up with just a few

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Former Illegal Cryptic Black Book of Jazz Standards

“The name’s Johnson… Claude Johnson…” After filming my wacky “007” video, I’m afraid that I’m letting my “secret agent” status swell my head. Nah, just kidding 🙂 Yes, the video was a joke – I didn’t REALLY break into anywhere. I wouldn’t do that… I’m classy… LOL. No, but seriously, the “Illegal Cryptic Black Book

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