Smooth Jazz Guitar Lesson

lesson based on this tune www.youtube.com The fretboard display below is done with a midi VSTi plugin, the Fretboard Visualizer (and mixed into the video).The midi is recorded with a Roland midi pickup on the guitar.

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19 Responses to “Smooth Jazz Guitar Lesson”

  1. Malcolm McDowell I’d say!
    BTW Great Lesson Thank you!

  2. cluxseltoot says:

    Great lesson on chord related soloing

  3. 118811100 says:

    Hi, very good guitar sound!! Please tell me what Pick you play??

  4. 118811100 says:

    Hi, very good guitar sound!! Please tell me what Pick you play??

  5. Rexicano says:

    In the US Smooth jazz means water down jazz and has no improv so it’s really not jazz at all and usually an insult to the great tradition of jazz…so weird title here. Also the way he’s playing here is really an old fashioned way with his tone, guitar and technique. Jazz has moved on because it is a changing art form. See Ralph Towner or Bill Frisell for what’s been happening in Jazz on guitar.

  6. BoyOfLol says:

    I wish Youtube made captions for guitars like this o.o THAT WOULD BE AWESOME

  7. rikischy27 says:

    I own the scale on the bottom
    

  8. Mierenneuker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    

  9. MestizoSoul says:

    Well it is “smooth jazz”, very fresh not stale. Its no insult, just contemporary and progressive, therefore positive. Dig? Adios!

  10. Rexicano says:

    Smooth Jazz has never been progressive. You seem to be unclear. Jazz has improv, smooth jazz does not. The main difference. Jazz artists take chances. Smooth is paint by number….chief goal is money not art. I dig that you’re dishonest about it all. Take a look at what Metheny has to say about it. He practically crucifies smoothers like Kenny G. I don’t…I just think we should not call it Jazz, it’s easy listening music.

  11. bmah2657 says:

    Your music gives me a very good feeling in my core, Thank you for sharing. More please.

  12. Nurhythm says:

    Great example…! love your approach plan on visting your site. What kind of software are you using for your fretboard at the bottom of the video? Matt your an awesome player and teacher…..

  13. it sounds very good

  14. DMellosoul says:

    Bullshit Rex-what the heck have you been listening to ? Pick up some Norman Brown, Steve Oliver, Ronny Jordan, George Duke, any of that stuff-there is a strong Improvisational Element in all of that stuff, so it’s Jazz..”Smooth” is just a Marketing term, but it’s jazz all the same….Have you ever seen any of these guys in Concert? Suggest you do this…nothing watered down here…and you can’t judge it by what Radio Plays because Corporate Programming won’t allow the Edgier stuff to be played

  15. Ronny Jordan and Norman Brown are my personal favorites out of that list. Never heard any Steve Oliver though

  16. I feel like I have to learn music theory to get better at this point

  17. crimsonyt says:

    Your music is really soothing to my ears.Thanks.

  18. Clear explanation! Thank you so much for helping me understand your music.

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