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Written By: Jamie Holroyd Edited By: Jamie Holroyd and Britt Reed 2012 Jamie Holroyd
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Introduction
Thank you for subscribing to my weekly jazz guitar newsletter, I am glad to have you on board! Building a well rounded and solid jazz vocabulary should be part of every guitarists practice routine and this book aims to help get some of the signature sounds of the jazz language into your ears and fingers. Jazz guitarists need many different licks and ideas to improvise over the different chord progressions found within the idiom so Ive chosen licks that are based of common jazz progressions found throughout the jazz repertoire so that you can apply them to the tunes youre working on. Because the lines are over different progressions you will be able to see how different jazz guitarists approach the same progressions and also how you could use small fragments from one lick in different circumstances. For example there are some progressions such as rhythm changes where you only have half a bar on each chord so you cant always use a full II-V-I lick, but you may be able to use fragments of them. The types of licks that are covered in this ebook are: Jazz Blues Licks II V I Licks V I Licks Pattern Licks I VI II V Licks
I hope that you enjoy playing and studying the licks in this ebook. They have been of great use to me over the years, and I am now happy to pass them on to you, my newsletter subscribers. Remember that this is a PDF so that you can always print it off and study away from the computer if you wish or download it onto your mobile phone and tablet. I only ask that you dont share or upload it to any other websites. If you wish to share this ebook with a friend please send them this link and I will them a copy: http://jamieholroydguitar.com/free-guitar-ebook
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The lick is based off a root position Bb triad. To learn more about how to practice and use triads across the guitar neck, follow this link: http://jamieholroydguitar.com/how-to-play-triads-on-guitar The syncopated start to this lick provides a nice bouncy feel and using the minor 3rd (C#) as a passing note to the major 3rd gives a good aesthetic bluesy feel. Scale wise the lick comes from Bb major pentatonic.
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II V I Bebop Lick
Learning to play jazz guitar means studying the bebop language, so heres a great bebop lick that uses a common jazz guitar technique called enclosures. Enclosures are used here in bar 2 over the G7 chord where the 7th (F) is approached from a scale step above then below. This enclosure technique is later reversed over the 3rd (B) in the same bar where instead of approaching the note from a scale step above then below, this time the 3rd is enclosed by going a scale step below then above. 4ths are also used throughout the line which gives it a nice intervallic feel. This lick is over a very common jazz chord progression, the II-V-I but you could also shorten the lick and use the last two bars over a progressions where the II-V is condensed into one bar instead of having one bar of each chord. Click the following link to watch the video lesson for this lick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw7s7KJdKiY&feature=player_embedded
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Not only will the lick work over a G7, but also over A7, B7, Db7, Eb7, and F7. The constant triplets give the line a nice bouncy feel, and the way it lays on the fretboard makes for a great sweep-picking exercise. This line is ideal for altered chords that are resolving so it can be easily applied to II-V-I situations.
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