Jazz Guitar Lessons - Graduated Solos - Mimi Fox - Introduction

FULL COURSE, TAB, JAM TRACKS: More free guitar lessons: TrueFire on Facebook: Jazz guitar students have three big mountains to climb; the theoretical, the physical and the aesthetical. The first two are fairly straight forward propositions. Keep your nose in the books and you will surely master the theoretical. Spend enough time in the shed and the chops will likewise surely come. But mastering the aesthetics of jazz is quite another thing and this is where most jazz guitar students hit the wall. Graduated Solos presents an intuitive approach for cultivating the aesthetics of your jazz improvisations, specifically how to construct beautiful, expressive solos using the melody as the template for the improvisation. Most students of jazz guitar are so focused on the prevailing progression that they often neglect the tune itself. While there are many superb improvisations that make no reference whatsoever to