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Duck Baker Youtube – Acoustic Jazz Guitar
Many Acoustic Guitar players and enthusiasts know Duck Bakers Celtic and Blues guitar playing but are probably unfamiliar with his enthusiasm and love of jazz. I was fascinated when I first heard Duck playing this still in a setting with a double b...
John Schofield Acoustic Guitar Youtube
Many guitar enthusiasts will know John Schofield from his electric jazz and jazz rock excursions since the 1970’s. I was fortunate enough to see John play duets in a great setting with another guitar player called Steve Erquiaga some years ...
Jazz Guitar Chords - Tutorial
This guitar tutorial is for players that can already play to a good basic standard. I’ve written a guitar TAB and music notation chart that uses triads (three note chords) and have also added a simple bass part. I’ve used a common ch...
Jazz Guitar Moving Bass Parts - Part 3
Jazz Guitar moving bass parts is the third guitar lesson in this series of tutorials. Although this chord fretting exercise includes the previous guitar part, it moves up the guitar neck to the E minor to A Seventh chords, when you play it it will so...
Paco De Lucia Larry Coryell John McLaughlin youTube
Larry Corryell, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia help take guitar improvisation to new heights in the seventies. Many people that are new to guitar and not aware of the standard that these players reached. Paco with his Flamenco background, McLaughl...
Jazz Guitar Moving Bass Parts - Part 2
Jazz guitar is more than just playing a few major 7 and minor 7 chords. These chords existed and can be found in many classical pieces and other music forms. I will not in this article attempt to define jazz guitar but I will continue on from wha...
John McLaughlin Shakti YouTube
John McLaughlin and Shakti came to the fore in the mid seventies, at the time they had John McLaughlin on a guitar with a scalloped fretboard, some drone strings and an Indian gentleman L Shankar on violin both playing at an awesome speed. John wa...
Ralph Towner YouTube Acoustic Guitar - Classical
I first heard of Ralph Towner in the mid seventies when he played with the acoustic ensemble/ band called Oregon. I rember at the time they .played 72 instruments amongst the four members, Colin Walcott (late), Glen Moore, Paul MaCandless. Ralp...
Jazz Guitar Moving Bass Parts
If you are just begining to learn to play jazz guitar chord changes, you’ll love this. It is a simple four chord pattern in C major: C major 7 , A minor 7 , D minor 7 and a G 7; commonly known as a 1 6 4 5 chord pattern. I’ve written ...
Jazz Guitar youTube video of Martin Taylor
I first became aware of the jazz guitar player Martin Taylor in the early eighties when I was studying withthe brillian jazz guitar legend Ike Isaacs. Over a ten year period Ike made it quite clear that ‘Martin Taylor’ was the best...
Joe Pass - Guitar Improvisation
The late great Joe Pass is a perfect example of someone that has mastered improvisation on the guitar. Although he didn’t play straight acoustic guitar, he was a master of the semi-acoustic, what’s a few different shaped sound holes amo...
