For anyone who’d like to get into jazz guitar playing or who simply wants to approach improvisation in in a different way this video is a very clear explanation of the fundamentals. It’s hosted by the excellent tutor Justin Guitar who this time gets his own lesson from the superb jazz guitarist Mike Outram. I learned a lot from Mike’s Electric Campfire web site back in the naughties. His Campfire tuition ranges from basics, as in this video, to the highly advanced (well beyond my limitations
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It’s a longish video but worth setting aside the time as it starts with basic melody and builds on that. It’s an interesting insight into the jazzer’s mind set.
https://youtu.be/QlpdfLxSHnE
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For those of you beyond the basics here’s a slightly more advanced lesson from Mike, again with Justin:
https://youtu.be/w-KoKYsu3TI
Some of you might remember Mike’s tuitional articles in the back of Guitarist mag maybe twenty years ago?
Thanks @Jimbro66, this is totally legit learning.
@KRS there's a lot to be said for insomnia - as long as you remember it all the following morning
@Matt_McG a personal lesson with Mike must have been quite an experience. I seem to remember getting an email from him saying he offers Skype lessons? I certainly learned a lot from Electric Campfire membership ten or more years ago but concluded that I'd left it too late in life to reach jazz guitar performer grade (the standard is so high). I should have taken it seriously back in my teens when my dad and older brother fed me albums by Jimmy Raney, Tal Farlow, Barney Kessell, etc but at that time it was Rockabilly that lit my fuse
The lap steel really highlights this approach as in the "standard" 6th tunings you have major and minor triads.
In fact someone I know uses lap steel in a course he runs called SAD Harmony (singers and drummers harmony) at his institution.