Smooth Jazz Guitar – Phrasing & Soloing Vocabulary
Develop your Smooth Jazz guitar vocabulary and learn how to create more melodic, sophisticated and expressive lines.
In this course, we’ll explore the essential phrasing and harmonic vocabulary of Smooth Jazz guitar, giving you practical ideas that you can use to develop your own solos and improvisations.
Rather than focusing on memorizing endless scale shapes, we’ll look at how scales, modes, arpeggios and melodic ideas can actually be used in a musical context. The focus is on practical application: understanding how these sounds work over chords and progressions, and using them to build your own phrases and solos.
Whether you're already comfortable with jazz harmony or you're looking to introduce more sophisticatedsounds into your guitar playing, this course will give you plenty of ideas to explore.
Course Highlights
✓ Smooth Jazz phrasing & vocabulary
✓ Licks and melodic phrases
✓ Minor Pentatonic & Natural Minor
✓ Harmonic Minor
✓ Melodic Minor
✓ Altered Scale
✓ Modal playing
✓ Arpeggios & arpeggio substitutions
✓ Passing tones & chromatic approaches
✓ Practical application over a D minor progression
✓ PDF course booklet & backing track included
The course is aimed at intermediate to advanced guitar players who want to expand their melodic and harmonic vocabulary and bring more of that smooth, sophisticated sound into their playing.
