Once learned exactly as shown, these major scale fingerings work well for reading and improvisation.
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Jazz Guitar Scales: 4/2 Major Scale
Tag Archives: How To Play Jazz Scales
Jazz Guitar Scales: 5/2 Major Scale
All these scale fingerings are important if you want to be able to play through the chord changes of standard and jazz tunes.
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Jazz Guitar Scales: 5/4 Major Scale
Jazz Guitar Scales: 6/2 Major Scale
For most students this major scale fingering is the most familiar. Be sure you are familiar with it too.
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Jazz Guitar Chords: Minor 7 Flat 5 Chord (-7b5)
Also called “half diminished,” this is the most important chord in jazz because it is used so many ways.
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Jazz Guitar Scales: 6/4 Major Scale
This scale is played in several different ways, but learn it like this and you will avoid all kinds of grief.
Jazz Guitar Chords: Diminished 7 Chord
These fingerings work well with each other and interact with the basic 7th chords in my other videos.
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Jazz Guitar Chords: Minor 7 Chord
Minor 7 chords. If they’re good enough for Carlos Santana, they’re good enough for me and good enough for you too. Learn them here.
Jazz Guitar Chords: Dominant 7 Chord
Many play their Dominant 7 chords as a barre chord, and it sounds too muddy. Learn a couple of nice clear fingerings here.
Jazz Guitar Chords: Major 7 Chord
Begin amassing your vocabulary of chords for jazz with the Major 7. Learn to play it and to go to the right fret when you see the chord symbol for it.
