Learn Jazz Guitar

I decided to create a video presentation giving more of a detailed overview of the structure of the Norman Brown lesson series. It will give you more of an idea of what to expect.
Let me know if you have any questions. Part 1 of the series should hopefully be posted this weekend if I can [...]

In one of my previous posts, I made an important point that jazz is in fact a language and it’s important to learn that language from master jazz musicians by listening to them regularly.  So, going forward I’m going to be focusing on some of the language of these musicians.  We’ll take some of their [...]

A while back, I sent out an email to my newsletter readers asking if they had any questions that they would like answered on my site.  Some people had questions, some people didn’t . I stated in the email that those asking good questions would receive a free “gift” from me. 
Unfortunately, I haven’t [...]

Just a quick note to let all of you jazz guitar fans know that a new music service just launched called SpiralFrog. It’s a music service like Napster, Rhapsody, and iTunes but with one BIG difference…you can download songs for FREE! and it’s legal.
It looks like they’re initially offering about 800,000 tracks and 3,500 music [...]

Here’s a technique that I came across that has really helped me to learn jazz guitar a lot faster and more efficiently.  It’s called the “5 Penny Method”. I just made up that name. You can use pennies or licorice sticks. It doesn’t really matter. The idea here is to use a goal/reward system to [...]

Playing jazz guitar is a fun and rewarding pursuit. But there’s no question, it’s one of the most difficult instruments to play jazz on.  This can certainly increase your frustration level. Sometimes, I just feel like throwing my guitar out the window.  But I always come back to it. Here’s a few tips to help you [...]

Many beginning jazz musicians have misconceptions about what professional jazz musicians actually do when they improvise. In fact, many believe that they are simply playing melodies off the top of their head or that they just have a gift for creating beautiful solos on the fly. This is most certainly not true as I’ve learned [...]

For those of you interested in smooth jazz guitar, at the end of this post is a YouTube video of Norman Brown playing live at the 2007 All Star Smooth Jazz Cruise. I’ve seen Norman play live many times and he’s an amazing performer. His style is similar to George Benson but with less of [...]

This is the second article in a series for beginning jazz guitarists. In the last lesson, I gave you what I considered to be the 8 Essential Jazz Guitar Chords. I consider them essential because they can be used right away to play through a number of jazz guitar tunes. Well, now that you’ve learned [...]

I recently came accross the following You Tube video of an all-star line up playing Chick Corea’s tune, “Spain”.
Chick Corea – KeyboardsHubert Laws – FluteBill Watrous – TromboneGeorge Benson – GuitarStanley Clarke – BassLenny White – Drumsand introduced by Quincy Jones.
Great Stuff! Check it out!
Leon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RHzCQIvMyo

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