New Lessons/Ideas: Flamenco Warmup, Jazz Guitar Groove & Great Tunes, Diatonic Chords

I just published 4 new lessons/ideas that have helped me in learning flamenco guitar, jazz guitar, and how chords and scales relate!

I hope they help you too. Please comment &/or let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, comments &/or ideas.

Of course if you’re playing lefty, then the right-hand means left-hand – basically whichever is your strumming hand.

Flamenco Warmup (for the right-hand): This is a warmup I try to do most days – it goes through the major right hand strumming techniques (rumba, rasgueados, albanico, azapua) with a diatonic chord progression at a very slow tempo. I like it because it really helps warm up my hands and also improve my right-hand technique – this is definitely a great example of practicing slower being better!

Ideas to improve your Jazz Guitar Groove (right-hand exercises): This goes through some different practice ideas that have helped me to (I hope) improve my groove, both with comping/chords and solos/single-line.

Great, Classic Tunes and Albums for Learning Jazz Guitar: An incomplete list, but I am updating (like most things on GK) this when I get the chance. It basically is a bunch of YouTube videos of some of the most classic ‘examples’ of some of the greatest jazz guitarists in a variety of ‘jazz genres’.

Creating Chords from a Diatonic (E major) Scale: This shows how to create some cool triads and chords with an E major scale. It’s especially to show how to create some beautiful open-string chords. It’s basically a companion to the Flamenco Warm-Up lesson.