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Beginner Jazz Guitar-Mastering The 2-5-1 Progression
Rating: 4.7 out of 5(6 ratings)
64 students
Created byToth Balazs
Last updated 1/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • You will learn the most important jazz progression, the 2-5-1 in theory, and practice. How to play beautiful chords, and solo with real jazz language.
  • No more endless scale and chord position studying, I’ll teach you the logical way, to easily manouver over the 2-5-1 progression.
  • The jazz theory can be scary at the first sight, but I simplify it to you, with my clear, and practical method. We always learn theory, with practical examples!
  • In this course, you will master many useful jazz soloing techniques, like the legendary 3-b9” method, the Major 7 over minor arpeggio substitution, and more!
  • During the course, I’ll teach you the essential guitar techniques, like alternate and sweep picking, to make your soloing more fluid.
  • With this course, you will get practical chord, scale, and arpeggio exercises, everything written in sheet music, Tab and Guitar Pro files.
  • I also made you a time efficient practice plan, to get the best resoults from this course, in no time!

Course content

1 section9 lectures1h 49m total length
  • Introduction1:18
  • Revisiting Triads and Seventh Chords7:45

    We learn, how to build triads, and the four basic seventh chord, which is essential to jazz.

  • Exploring the 2-5-1 Progression31:11

    You will learn, how the 2-5-1 progression works. Learn it different places on the fretboard, with various chord voicings.

  • Improvising with Scales, over the 2-5-1 Progression22:43

    We learn, how to use the Major Scale, over the 2-5-1 Progression. Scale axercises, and improvisation tips.

  • Arpeggios over the 2-5-1 Progression8:40

    Learning the 2-5-1 arpeggios, in two positions.

  • 2-5-1 Arpeggio Exercises12:44

    Useful arpeggio exercises, over the 2-5-1 Progression.

  • The 3-b9 Technique8:33

    Learn one of the most important techniques, in jazz.

  • The Major7 arpeggio substitution10:09

    Learn to play beautiful lines over Minor 7 Chords, with a major7 arpeggio.

  • 2-5-1 Licks6:38

    Putting it all together, in tasty jazz licks.

Requirements

  • If you already know a few chords, and you’ve just started to explore world of scales, this course will be perfect for you!

Description

Welcome to my Jazz Guitar Course!

This course is for beginners, who wanna start playing jazz guitar, and guitarist from other generes, who want to expand their knowlege. During these lessons, you will learn about the most important chord progression in jazz, the 2-5-1. You can master the theory behind it, why is it used, and how. We will learn basic jazz comping techniques, with with strumming, and finger picking. We will use diatonic soloing, over the 2-5-1 progression, so you don’t have to learn tons of scales, and modes. The easiest way to improvise in jazz, is playing arpeggios. We will learn the ones, you need! We will learn very useful soloing techniques, which are essential in jazz improvisation, like the 3-b9 method, mainly used by Charlie Parker, and beautiful chord, and arpeggio substitutions. You will find Tab, and guitar pro file, for each section. At the end of the course, we sum up what we have learnt, and play very cool jazz lines.

I beleive in practical, and logical way of teaching, and playing the guitar. You can have one lick, melody, and practice for a day, finding all the possible ways to play it, on the fretboard.

Join my course, and let’s explore jazz guitar playing, together!

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for beginners, who want to take the first step, in the world of jazz guitar. Also, if you are a more intermediate player, in other music style, but you wanna get into jazz guitar playing.