Some Very Cool Jazz Licks

Have you been looking for some good jazz licks to supplement your repertoire? These jazz-licks are from tunes that I especially like.
Grab the mp3 file or the CD and try to play along!

Jazz is making a comeback! More and more of my students are asking for me to help them with learning jazz. This is very gratifying, as it demonstrates that when you learn the basics, you naturally want to progress to the next level.

Before you try these licks, you may want to brush up on you scales practice: Practicing Guitar Scales

You can also find tons of free lessons and other valuable guitar resources at:

Free Guitar Resources

If you have questions about these licks, or about anything at all pertaining to playing the guitar, you can get free answers at Ask Guitar Questions

Would You like to know how much your guitar is worth? Find out at Vintage Guitar Values

You can hear this lick on the standard 'Joy Spring' on Joe Pass's CD 'Joy Spring', a must have CD for every jazz guitarist. The lick is the pick up for the first solo chorus.

Joe Pass plays a D minor triad arpeggio with an added 9 on the Bm7b5 chord, what gives us the following functions : b3, 4, b5, b7. On the E7 he plays an A harmonic minor scale.

Kenny Burrell has been a high in demand guitarist during all his career (he was Duke Ellington's favorite guitar player). Some of the jazz giants he played with : Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, This lick is a nice way to change position on the fret board.

This is a bluesy lick in the Eb blues pentatonic scale.

RELATED LINKS on THIS SITE

Ask Guitar Questions

Buying Guitars

Discount Guitars

Free Printable Guitar Chord Charts

Leave "Jazz Licks" and Go to "Free Guitar Resources"

Go to "Absolutely Free Music Lessons"