8/12/2019 15 Jazz Guitar Techniques Every Player Should Know

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15 Jazz Guitar Techniques Every Player Should

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Jazz Guitar Techniques Practice Ti(s

Practice#hord Scales 3*(rovise with a sin'le har*onic color+ such as 5th *ode har*onic

*inor Practice #hords in #ycles and not )ust inversions Practice at every te*(o you can thin$ o, 8un intervals throu'h any scale 3*(rovise usin' only one scale and one interval+ such as 3onian and

only usin' 5ths Try soloin' with one scale or *ode 0ut stay within one octave on the

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