Latest articles by Matt Warnock
Bebop scale: how you can use this jazz scale in your guitar solos
Learn how the Bebop scale is built and where you can use it in your solos
Guitar modes: how to learn all 7 major modes the easy way
A quick-fire route to memorizing and mastering the modes
These smooth BB King licks work for more than just blues
How to use BB's blues ideas in a jazz context
Three Essential Jazz Guitar Chord Soloing Lines
Study three jazz chord soloing lines that will bridge the gap between your study of chord shapes and applying those shapes to a real, musical situation.
Melodic Minor Modes Made Easy
Learning how to play the seven modes of melodic minor is an essential skill any guitarist should have in their soloing tool belt.
An Introduction to the Tritone Scale
A short introduction to the tritone scale, its construction, how to use it and some basic fingerings for this scale on the guitar.
Five Must-Know ii-V-I Chord Subs
Learning how to play and apply these subs to your chord work and single-note solos can add an extra layer of harmonic sophistication to your playing.
How to Play Jazzy Jimi Hendrix Chords
Learn how you can take the Hendrix Chord and apply it to jazz guitar comping phrases.
Soloing with the Mixed Blues Scale
This cool-sounding scale can jazz up your blues solos in no time. Give it a try!
Three Licks Incorporating Different Ways of Playing the iim7b5 Chord
Learn some different ways of playing the iim7b5 chord, and some specific ways to connect those voicings to the tonic chord through the V7alt chord in various alterations.
How to Apply Chromatic Passing Arpeggios Into Major-Key ii-V-I Progressions
Add tension and resolution by applying chromatic passing arpeggios into major key ii-V-I progressions.
Three Ways to Solo Over 7alt Chords
Learn three different ways you can solo over 7alt chords.
Five Must-Know Jazz Guitar Turnarounds
Explore five common variations of a two-bar turnaround progression.
Jazz Guitar Corner: Building a Jazz Vocabulary — Melodic Minor Over iim7
Look at three licks that use melodic minor over a iim7 chord.
How to Develop Picking Control With Accented Scale Practice
These accent patterns can be used to raise your level of rhythmic and right-hand awareness when practicing scales.
Expand Your Melodic Colors with Ninth Arpeggios
Explore two common fingerings for ninth arpeggios applied to a ii v I chord progression.
Jazz Guitar Corner: The Importance of the Bird Blues Chord Progression
Expand your knowledge of the neck by soloing and comping through a Bird Blues.
Three Must-Know Jazzy Pentatonic Patterns
Grab your axe and dust off those classic pentatonic box patterns.
Using Three Different Scales to Improvise Over Minor Key ii-V-i’s
Learn how to use three different scales to improvise over minor key ii-V-i’s while still keeping everything related to the tonic key.
How to Play 7#11 Chords
Get a solid foundation of voicings to draw upon in your comping, chord soloing and chord melody playing.
Learn the Fretboard Like Joe Pass
This Joe Pass concept will help you always have a harmonic and melodic device close by.
Ninth Chords Made Easy
Learn how you can use “rootless” ninth chords to expand your jazz-guitar vocabulary without having to learn any new shapes.
Using the m7b5 Chord to Comp and Solo
Comping and chord soloing over minor ii V i chord progressions can be a tough hurdle to get over when learning jazz guitar.
