Start Soloing Through Blues Chord Changes: A Beginner's Breakthrough Lesson

Need help with moving from scales to soloing through chord changes on jazz guitar? This could be a pivotal lesson for you! In this video, I reveal and simplify the foundational skills you need to transition from improvising with scales to ultimately mastering chord changes in your solos. Perfect for beginners, or if like many others, you’re finding it hard to make this crucial leap, this tutorial guides you step-by-step through some very playable and practical exercises designed to build exactly the skills you need. Follow the steps, practice the skills, and you’ll probably make the breakthrough you’re looking for.

As with all my videos, if you’re a jazz teacher – of any instrument – this lesson demonstrates a powerfully effective but accessible educational technique AND models how you might teach it. Thanks for looking.

What you'll learn:
• Understanding Guide Tones: Begin to discover the role of thirds and sevenths in jazz chords.
• Exercise Overview: I'll walk you through my "Guide Tone Madness" exercise, which builds directly on the iconic riff from Sonny Rollins' "Tenor Madness."
• Practical Play-Along: Practice the skills interactively as you play through exercises that help you internalize and practice these concepts in a musical context.
• Incremental Skill Building: Develop your skills progressively, starting from simple guide tone identification to incorporating these into full-blown solos. Every step is practical.

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• Downloadable PDFs

👉Major Blues in all 12 keys notation & guitar TAB

• Backing Tracks

• More Lessons

👉Another helpful and enthusiastic Tenor Madness tutorial is by @Damianblf

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[TeachingJazz]

0:48 Tenor Madness - background
1:23 Assumed & helpful knowledge for the exercise
2:12 Tenor Madness - unpacking the riff
4:56 Guide Tone Madness
6:21 guide tones
9:59 keynote and guidtones
12:05 adding the 6th
14:04 adding the 2nd
15:23 add some chromatic notes
16:46 guidetones plus the whole scale

[scottrubin]

Unbelievably good. Brilliantly scaffolded for anyone to follow along with step by step. Thank you.

[kevinhines]

This is a fantastic lesson. It really is helpful. Thanks.

[ascgazz]

Finally, a useful jazz lesson! 🎉

Thanks

[baslo]

You made me play actual music instead of just arpeggios and scales! Great lesson

[MarcRusson]

This is a great lesson. I like the way you decomposed the process and it is especially helpful to directly download support material and use it in the lesson. Thank you!

[robertgreen]

Very useful and enjoyable lesson. Thank you.👍🎸

[adolfosuar]

Fantastica lección. Gracias por the skill

[moose]

Man that’s brilliant, Thanks so much subscribed 🙏🏻

[GuillermoGuzman-nmnb]

I will do these exercises. Thank you sir.

[rafa_guitar]

Wow, I am very impressed, you are by far the best jazz teacher I found, thank you so much for making possible to improve our skills, you are really incredible! I am very happy for all you share here in thi8s awesome channel, congrats! Your pupils must be so happy with you ;-)

[aminahmed]

Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day ❤😊

[slimeylimey]

Excellent lesson. Thank you. Subscribed. 👍

[dazsmith]

Saw you at a gig in Glebe a year or so ago. Great playing then and awesome content now. A new subscriber!

[rebeccaabraham]

Damn! This ties in with the first book for rock and blues that I bought - back in 1978 - just after I bought my first strat, at uni! It was boring as hell because it had bloody execises - without any damned explanations - which should be a criminal offence! I'm going to have to watch this several times because it'll also help me with my digital sax!

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[LambertScalvin]

Thankful for the good lesson but I wish you would have spent more time on the actual chord changes

[jerrymcdrake]

Honestly, this one is a honest ! I think all of us fed up with snobby youtubers who teaches jazz on youtube with their fancy jargon and fancier haircut and most fancy guitars and equipments and in addition to that their demands on being paid to patreon vs. for tiny pdf. Sir, lease keep it up. Very good approaching to play jazz.