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Matador is the title track of a legendary session Grant Green recorded in 1964, though it wasn’t released until 1979 on the Japanese Blue Note label. It’s one of those albums that flew under the radar for a long time but holds some of Green’s strongest playing. The lineup on the record is great as […] The post Matador (Grant Green) appeared first on Jazz Guitar Online | Free Jazz Guitar Less...

Kenny Burrell’s Midnight Blue is one of the most iconic soul-jazz guitar standards ever recorded. Released in 1963 on Blue Note Records, the track is the title cut of Burrell’s classic album Midnight Blue, featuring Stanley Turrentine (tenor sax), Major Holley (bass), Billy Gene English (drums), and Ray Barretto (congas). If you’re into a smooth […] The post Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell) app...

Charlie Chaplin, famous for making people laugh, was also good at making music. He composed “Smile” for his last silent movie “Modern Times” in 1936 with the help of composer David Raksin. The first phrase of the melody is identical to a phrase (Cavaradossi singing “Quale occhio al mondo può star di paro”) in the […] The post Smile (Charlie Chaplin) appear...

Alone Together was composed by Arthur Schwartz in 1932 and featured in the Broadway musical Flying Colors. In this lesson, you will learn how to play the melody mixed with chords. Alone Together has a bit of an unusual form because it has a length of 44 bars instead of 32 as is usual with […] The post Alone Together appeared first on Jazz Guitar Online | Free Jazz Guitar Lessons, Licks, Tips...

In a Sentimental Mood is a famous jazz standard composed and recorded by Duke Ellington in 1935. In this lesson, you will learn the melody of In a Sentimental Mood and a solo over its chord changes (with some Emily Remler vocabulary mixed in). The original recording and many other recorded versions are in F […] The post In a Sentimental Mood appeared first on Jazz Guitar Online | Free Jazz G...

Make You Feel My Love was written by Bob Dylan for his album Time Out of Mind (1997). The song became a bit of a modern standard and was covered by more than 450 artists including Billy Joel, Garth Brooks, and Adele. Creating guitar instrumentals of pop songs is a good exercise in reharmonization, phrasing, […] The post To Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan) appeared first on Jazz Guitar Onlin...

Nature Boy was written by eden ahbez (his real name was George Alexander Aberle) in 1947 and recorded by Nat King Cole in 1948. Cole’s recording became a no 1 hit for eight weeks and sold over a million of copies. In this lesson, you will learn how to play the melody and chords of […] The post Nature Boy appeared first on Jazz Guitar Online | Free Jazz Guitar Lessons, Licks, Tips &...

Fly Me to the Moon is one of the most famous and recognizable jazz standards ever. In this lesson, you will learn how to play the chords and chord progression of this popular song. In the chord study below, you will mostly learn basic jazz guitar chords and voicings such as minor 7, major 7, […] The post Fly Me To The Moon Chords appeared first on Jazz Guitar Online | Free Jazz Guitar Lesson...

In this lesson, you will learn how to play the chords of Blue Bossa and a bossa nova rhythm pattern. One of the most common non-swing rhythms that jazz guitarists often play is the bossa nova groove. but learning how to play an authentic bossa or samba groove on the guitar can be tricky. To […] The post Blue Bossa Guitar Chords & Rhythm Pattern appeared first on Jazz Guitar Online | Fre...

Autumn Leaves is a timeless jazz standard recorded by numerous jazz legends, making it a must-know tune for any aspiring jazz guitar player. In this guitar lesson, you will learn a beginner-friendly chord arrangement of Autumn Leaves. This arrangement mainly uses drop 2 and drop 3 chords, two kinds of basic chord shapes that are […] The post Autumn Leaves – Easy Jazz Guitar Chords appe...