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Live Lesson: January 28, 2018 Jazz Guitar Arpeggios Here are some of my most helpful tips for playing arpeggios in a Jazz setting as well as some advanced level Jazz chord melody concepts. DOWNLOAD THE JAZZ ARPEGGIOS HERE... Jazz Arpeggios.pdf DOWNLOAD THE PHIL KEAGGY FINGER FLEXIBILITY EXERCISES HERE... Phil Keaggy Flexibility Exercise.pdf Learn all you can! - Steve

I was wondering if anybody had any cool EQ settings they could share with me, I don't have too many setting options on my amp, with gain,treble,bass,and volume.But I would still love to hear your setting for jazz,rock,and blues.

So, I'm not a jazz guy, really. I admit, my first time through L&MG I skipped the jazz lesson because I wasn't interested in it, and frankly I found it too difficult. What? I have to learn a whole bunch of new chords, and the ones I already know aren't any good anymore? And these are so weird... No thanks A month or two ago, my guitar teacher encouraged me to spend time working on funk and jazz to expand my playing. His recommendation of Robben Ford was kind of the gateway drug here, but at some point in the last couple of years I reached the point where I knew enough to look at jazz again and think, "Whoa! This is great!" Now, I still don't listen to a ton of jazz outside of a little Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery now and again - but, learning all these crazy chords has really helped me take a leap forward. To anyone who's shied away from it, the struggle is worth it. Once you start seeing all these chords and comparing them to each other, trying to memorize them, you start to see intervals instead of notes. You can quickly figure out how to play a chord you don't know. You start to see why some things sound cool and why some things don't. Hey! That chord progression all pivots off this one note! These two notes are walking down in unison together! The things you see when you start to really look at chords like a technician - it's really opened some new doors for me. If you have been coloring inside the lines and afraid to go out like I was, it's SO rewarding. Give it a shot! This is a way to break off a plateau and move upward, and I'm loving it. Just wanted to share some encouragement/success/exhortation with all of you

A lesson on position playing by Chuck Loeb. Chuck was a great player and instructor. He has many lesson videos on YouTube which are worth watching.

While some think of Jazz as "cats on the piano", many modern blues players have very effectively used so-call "jazz chords" in bringing a fresh approach to the Blues. None more so, in my humble opinion, than Robben Ford, a great performer and teacher (as it turns out) who demonstrates here how the addition of 9th's and 13th's to the usual 1 - 4-5 progression adds some much needed interest. Not hard at all... try it!