Jazz Guitar Lesson 1: Chromaticism - 1 of 2

A jazz guitar lesson (first half) on how to use chromatic (non-scale) tones within a melody or a solo. This video is not recommended for those who don't yet know their major scale positions and basic diatonic harmony (chords as they relate to the key or scale. If you understand this stuff to begin with, this video should make plenty of sense and I hope you find it useful.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• guitar
• lesson
• chromatic
• chromaticism
• bebop
• phrasing
• licks
• improvisation

[TheBrownTies]

your lessons are great man, GREAT! 5 stars thanks a lot

[geoffstockton]

@TheBrownTies And thank you! The encouragement truly means a lot. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[MoveOnDotOrgg]

Geoff, try scripting your video shoots - that way less ummm's and pauses...good stuff!

[geoffstockton]

@MoveOnDotOrgg I appreciate your advise but I'm not gonna take it! Jazz isn't scripted. So why script a video about jazz? Why script period. Ums and pauses come with the territory of real life speech and interaction. It lets you know some one's truly thinking about what they're saying and how they're saying it. I know I'm guilty of a LOT of ums and pauses but it doesn't make me want to phony the whole thing up. I live by the jazz philosophy, I guess. Thanks, though.

[MoveOnDotOrgg]

@geoffstockton; well, a person who can't take constructive criticism is destined to fail - waste your own time, not your students...ummm, ah, er, ummmmmmmmm, oh yeah, where....(burp), ummm.

[geoffstockton]

@MoveOnDotOrgg My lessons all have five stars. I have hundreds of subscribers with zero promotional effort and I have comment boards on every video filled with people telling me how helpful these videos have been, for them. It's hard for me to see that as failure. I actually take constructive criticism pretty well...when it's not bullshit. Scripted lessons are fake lessons.

[taildragger53]

@geoffstockton

Oh yes--Actually if we go over and view some of Joe Pass' videos on ytube we notice his method of explaining is very unpolished..he pauses alot ,even forgets the names of chords etc and yet i dare anyone on here to call JP a waste of time! (LOL)..i , personally, think it adds to the authenticity & sincerity of the instructor.

A highly polished teacher would make me feel tense..as it did when i learnt classical guitar.

[Recycled]

Great tips. Thanks!

[stratfanatic]

Gold.... Many thanks for this.

[PuckettFamily]

writing a book?? - i wanna write a book !!! 

[rbcampbell]

Geoff--you are a great teacher--please keep posting.

[skaterocker666]

thres only 1 dislike propably from that faggot @MoveOnDotOrg.

[z1reticuli]

I am very happy to have found your lessons... pretty good to fill in some gaps I feel trying to build on stuff by Joe Pass, Joe Beck, John Stowell, and some Belgian jazz guys.

[JMOLIVES]

Hey jazz guitarist living in singapore here. Yeah u r right to put emphasis on chromaticism, since it has to be played with confidence by the guitarist who masters already scales and arpeggios ( which takes a LOT of time already ). Good luck in your you tube teaching and keep up w the good work.

[scraggo]

@geoffstockton awesome video and instantly makes one sound jazzier. as for the scripting point - scripting takes time, time is money, we only have so much time to make free youtube videos.  keep the info coming

[TheVampireSteve]

Yo if you have students who are learning death metal improv, you should DEFINITELY go over the augmented+diminished scales and any other scales with that ominous feeling. i had to find out about them on the internet but they became central to all my music. a lot of jazz scales are perfect for death metal, really