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REVIEW: 30 Days to Better Jazz Guitar Comping
Jamie Holroyd recently released an E-book entitled “30 Days to Better Jazz Comping”, which he asked me to review. First off, I want to say, I don’t consider myself a jazz guitarist. I’m primarily an alt rock guy. But I have been studying jazz guitar for about a year and a half now. Mostly [...]
Add Tabs to any YouTube Video with SoundSlice
This is pretty cool. There’s a new website – SoundSlice.com, that has a really intuitive, yet powerful way to create guitar tabs for any video on youtube. All you need to do is sign up for a free account, search for a video on youtube, and then begin writing the tab, which is synched with [...]
Review: Matt Warnock Guitar 251 Chords
If your into learning jazz guitar, and spend a lot of time looking for learning resources on the net, you’ve no doubt run into Matt Warnock’s teachings. A current lecturer at the Leeds College of Music in England, Matt has posted countless lessons, tips and tricks to his own site – mattwarnockguitar.com, as well as [...]
Rock Prodigy:Guitar – Free for this week only
This is another iOS app that’s currently free, though it normally is only $0.99. The promotion did have it’s intended effect on me, having me download it and check it out. Basically, it’s sort of like RockSmith. With the usual stream of numbers coming down the fretboard that you have to play in sync. It [...]
The One Lick Every Jazz Guitarist Should Know
Here’s a video by Matt Warnock showing how to play a popular jazz lick. Don’t be turned off if you think you have no use for jazz. This lick is actually very bluesy sounding and as Matt points out, it’s been used by players of many genres. The base lick is really simple and easy [...]