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A Quick Lesson on Transcribing Licks

A Quick Lesson on Transcribing Licks

Here's a little insight into how I approach learning licks and ideas off of records. Transcribing lines is a great way to add to your vocabulary. You can get the most out of the things you're learning by first, understanding the underlining harmony, and second, taking that idea and applying it to different songs with different grooves and key ce...

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Hello Everyone! Happy Thanksgiving

I just want to take a minute to thank all of you for your continued support here on Patreon! It’s been a wild year filled with some incredible experiences and a lot of firsts. Starting this Patreon page and my YouTube channel has been incredibly rewarding and challenging. I’m so grateful to all of you for being a part of it! I hope you all h...

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New Video Up With Brett Papa

New Video Up With Brett Papa

I shot this lesson last week with my good friend Brett Papa. Check it out here on his Youtube channel. Brett's one of the OG YouTube guitar teachers and it's very cool and inspiring to get together and do these videos with him. Be sure to check out his channel and the great courses he's got out. In this video we go into depth about the importanc...

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Backing Track for 'How to Solo Using Chord Tones'

Backing Track for 'How to Solo Using Chord Tones'

Very simple track here. Just 4 chords: Amajor7, F#7, Bminor7, and E7. Cheers!

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Tabs and Notation for 'How to Solo Using Chord Tones'

Tabs and Notation for 'How to Solo Using Chord Tones'

Here it is! Lot of useful stuff in this solo. Enjoy!

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New YouTube Lesson

New YouTube Lesson

Tabs and backing track up next!

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Transcription for 'Jump Blues' Lesson

Transcription for 'Jump Blues' Lesson

This is the notation and tabs for the solo at the beginning of the lesson. All the examples from later in the video are played in this solo. Enjoy!

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Jump Blues Backing Track

Jump Blues Backing Track

Up tempo swing in the key of A.

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Jump Blues Lesson from YouTube

Jump Blues Lesson from YouTube

Here's is the latest YouTube lesson. Posted here for convenience. I will post the backing track and solo transcription for this lesson in the next couple posts. Enjoy!

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Grant Green's 'No.1 Green Street'

Grant Green's 'No.1 Green Street'

Sorry no YouTube lesson this week but I've been a bit under the weather. Also I've been practicing a lot for the up coming 'Nashville Guitar Night' show this Monday night. This is one of the tunes I'll be doing. I though I'd film a little bit of my practice for you all to see. I'm playing it here at a pretty fast tempo trying to getting everythi...

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Chord Chart for Ain't Misbehavin'

Chord Chart for Ain't Misbehavin'

This is and old standard by Fats Waller but the version I'm doing is the Ray Charles arrangement from the the 'After Hours' album. This is an A-A-B-A from and it modulates to the key of Bb in the bridge. Lot's of good changes to sink your teeth into. Enjoy!

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Backing Track for Ain't Misbehavin'

Backing Track for Ain't Misbehavin'

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My Version of 'Aint Misbehavin' (Work in Progress)

My Version of 'Aint Misbehavin' (Work in Progress)

Here's a tune I'm working on for the upcoming 'Nashville Guitar Night' concert. I thought I'd throw this up here, mistakes and all, so you can see a bit of my process for learning tunes. There's a lot of changes in this song to keep track of so I usually break it down into smaller chunks to work out ideas. Then I try to connect those ideas toget...

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'Autumn Leaves' Backing Track from 'Triads' Lesson

'Autumn Leaves' Backing Track from 'Triads' Lesson

Some of you alerted me that I hadn't posted this backing track. Sorry for the delay! But here it is. This is the backing track I used in the YouTube lesson on upper extension triads ( https://youtu.be/Cbo6tCKEZJY ). Enjoy!

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'R&B Rhythm Fills' Notation

'R&B Rhythm Fills' Notation

Here's the tabs and notation for the 4 fill examples I demonstrate in the latest YouTube lesson. Attachments included below.

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Backing Track for 'R&B Rhythm Guitar'

Backing Track for 'R&B Rhythm Guitar'

Here is the backing track for the latest YouTube video. This has all the rhythm guitar parts included (coming in one at a time) so you can play along. There's no fills on the track so you can work on adding your own. Enjoy!

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New YouTube Lesson

New YouTube Lesson

Here's a lesson I made on layering guitar parts for a classic soul tune. I will post the backing track and tabs in subsequent posts.

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Open Solo for 1,4,5 (Pt.2) YouTube Lesson

Open Solo for 1,4,5 (Pt.2) YouTube Lesson

Here's is the notation for the opening solo from my last YouTube Lesson. I will not have a YouTube lesson up this Sunday because I have gigs in Wisconsin and Idaho and I'll be traveling but I will have a bunch of new stuff up the following week. Thanks for supporting my channel and this Patreon page! I really appreciate it!

Jack

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Backing Track for new '1,4,5' Lesson

Backing Track for new '1,4,5' Lesson

Here's the backing track for the latest YouTube lesson. Enjoy!

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Solo Transcription from 'How To Play Over a 1,4,5 Pt.2'

Solo Transcription from 'How To Play Over a 1,4,5 Pt.2'

Here's is the solo that I demonstrate midway through video. I will have the opening solo and the backing track up later this afternoon. Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoy it. Cheers!

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New YouTube Lesson!

New YouTube Lesson!

Here's my latest lesson. Talking about a different way to approach 1,4,5 chord progressions. Enjoy!

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YouTube lesson

YouTube lesson

Here's the latest lesson. I'll post it here so everything is on one site to make it easy to view. Cheers!!

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Opening Solo from 'Jazz Blues' Lesson

Opening Solo from 'Jazz Blues' Lesson

Here's the opening solo transcription from the latest YouTube lesson. Enjoy! 

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Lick Examples from 'Jazz Blues' YouTube Lesson

Lick Examples from 'Jazz Blues' YouTube Lesson

Here are all the lick examples from my most recent YouTube lesson. I'm traveling home from a gig in New Mexico so I won't have the tab for the opening solo up until tonight. Hope you all enjoy this new lesson. Thank you so much for supporting this page. Cheers!

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Backing Track for 1, 4, 5 Lesson

Backing Track for 1, 4, 5 Lesson

I may have used this backing track already and posted it in a previous post but here it is again. This is one of the backing tracks we recorded for my Truefire course. A straight up 12 bar blues in G. Wes Little played the drums, and Jason Kott is on bass. Dig it!

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Mixolydian Scale Concept

Mixolydian Scale Concept

Solo from part 3 of the 1,4,5 Lesson. Attachments are included below. Cheers!

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Chord Tone Concept

Chord Tone Concept

Solo from part 2 of the 1,4,5 Lesson. Attachments are included below. Cheers!

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Pentatonic Scale Concept

Pentatonic Scale Concept

Solo from part 1 of the 1,4,5 Lesson. Attachments are included below. Cheers!

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Opening Solo from 1,4,5 Lesson

Opening Solo from 1,4,5 Lesson

Here's the notation to the opening solo at the beginning of the latest YouTube lesson. In this solo I blend all the concepts talked about in the lesson. The MXL file is included in the attachments below. Enjoy!

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New YouTube Lesson!

New YouTube Lesson!

Here's the latest lesson video. All the tabs and backing track will be in the following posts. Enjoy!

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