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Creative Smooth Jazz ( Lee Ritenour Style ) - Guitar Lesson Here you can learn a few creative tricks how to play a creative smooth jazz guitar in the style of Lee Ritenour or others. The trick is to have a few rhythm figures together in a really secure way that you can start to play around with them in a creative way and you can start to move motives and ideas around those rhythm ideas. Creative Smooth Jazz.pdf Creative Smooth Jazz.gp creative smooth jazz.mp3

In this tutorial you can learn how to play a smooth jazz guitar. when it comes to smooth jazz the guitar lines have to be smooth relaxed and have a great phrasing. It's the phrasing which makes the smoothness and the difference between cool and very smooth jazz guitar lines in this genre. I broke down three main phrasing tricks which you can use to enter this really great genre of smooth jazz even if you're not so experienced in jazz guitar playing. In the first part of the tutorial I get some technical advice how you can build up your speed with the pentatonic or the minor scales and then I show you three rhythm figures and phrasing tricks which you can use in any situation by using any scale you like. When you analize protagonist of smooth jazz like Lee Ritenour, George Benson or other players it more or less leads to these three rhythm figures in any combinations.The combination of those three figures I am showing you if any notes you are using makes you a pro in smooth jazz guitar even if you're not experienced in jazz and you get a lot of fun in this kind of playing. But take your time to build up the speed which is needed to play 16 notes in the genres. Easy Smooth Jazz Guitar Phrasing Tricks.pdf Easy Smooth Jazz Guitar Phrasing Tricks.gp easy smooth jazz guitar phrasing tricks.mp3

Here you can learn some essential phrasing tricks which work great for smooth jazz and on the dorain mode. Such phrasing can be heard by artist like Lee Ritenour, George Benson or others. Smooth Jazz Phrasing ( Dorian ) .pdf smooth jazz dm.mp3

Phrasing is an important element in smooth jazz guitar. I would even say it's the most important part of it. So let's have a look how you can achieve an easy way of phrasing with 3 tricks I am showing you. In this example I am working with a I VI II V progression in D major. That means that you can use either the D major pentatonic or the D major scale. In combination with the 3 phrasing tricks I am showing you here in this tutorial you can already reach a good level on smooth jazz guitar and reach the quam. Smooth Jazz Guitar Phrasing Tricks.pdf Smooth Jazz Guitar Phrasing Tricks.gp grabbel_jam.mp3

Here some smooth jazz guitar in the style of Lee Ritenour a bit adapted to " Something got me started " by Simply Red. Love the vibe and the groove of it and it is the color " violet " . A tutorial will follow soon and there you can get the backing track.