Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Lexicon

Supercharge Your Jazz Guitar Licks with this Jazz Learning Path Core Course

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Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Lexicon

About this course

Welcome to Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Lexicon for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Jazz guitar.

This Jazz Learning Path core course is presented by 5 top TrueFire educators: Sheryl Bailey, Tom Dempsey, Tom Wolfe, David Hamburger, and James Hogan.

The Lick Lexicon curriculum is comprised of select Jazz guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.

Music is a language. In the same way that words and sentences are connected to form stories, musical licks and phrases are connected to form solos. And just like any language, the more robust your musical vocabulary is, the more interesting and diverse your solos will be. The video guitar lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of licks along with the technical skills required to take your soloing skills to the next level.

Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Lexicon is organized into 2 sections. In the first section, Tom Dempsey reveals a fretboard navigation system based on 5 tonality shapes. Learn this system and you’ll be able to play in any key, in any position on the fretboard. In Section 2, Sheryl Bailey, Tom Dempsey, Tom Wolfe, David Hamburger, and James Hogan contribute to a diverse collection of 50 jazz licks for you to add to your lick lexicon.

When you’ve completed the lessons here in Lick Lexicon, you’ll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Vocabulary, also a Play Jazz Guitar 5 core course.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let’s get started!

What you'll learn

  • Explore dominant chord phrasing
  • Hammer-on technique
  • G minor pentatonic lick
  • Practice jazz guitar phrasing
  • Learn a Grant Green-style blues lick
Release date: 09/14/2016 • 3h 18m runtime
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Sample lessons
The 5 Tonality Shapes
The 5 Tonality Shapes
Overview
Bird's Fave Quote
Bird's Fave Quote
Lick 9
Micro-Cosmic Bebop Line
Micro-Cosmic Bebop Line
Lick 25
Bring In Da Blues
Bring In Da Blues
Lick 1

What's included

69 lessons • 64 charts • 60 Jam Tracks

Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Lexicon
Welcome to Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Lexicon for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Jazz guitar.

This Jazz Learning Path core course is presented by 5 top TrueFire educators: Sheryl Bailey, Tom Dempsey, Tom Wolfe, David Hamburger, and James Hogan.

The Lick Lexicon curriculum is comprised of select Jazz guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.

Music is a language. In the same way that words and sentences are connected to form stories, musical licks and phrases are connected to form solos. And just like any language, the more robust your musical vocabulary is, the more interesting and diverse your solos will be. The video guitar lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of licks along with the technical skills required to take your soloing skills to the next level.

Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Lexicon is organized into 2 sections. In the first section, Tom Dempsey reveals a fretboard navigation system based on 5 tonality shapes. Learn this system and you'll be able to play in any key, in any position on the fretboard. In Section 2, Sheryl Bailey, Tom Dempsey, Tom Wolfe, David Hamburger, and James Hogan contribute to a diverse collection of 50 jazz licks for you to add to your lick lexicon.

When you've completed the lessons here in Lick Lexicon, you'll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Vocabulary, also a Play Jazz Guitar 5 core course.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You'll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you'll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let's get started!
Tonality Shapes
In this first section, Tom Dempsey reveals a fretboard navigation system based on 5 tonality shapes. Learn this system and you'll be able to play in any key, in any position on the fretboard.

TIP! Like any person who speaks eloquently has a grasp of a variety of words to get their message across, so it is with licks for guitar players. The more licks you know and work on, the more you expand your vocabulary to communicate with your guitar.

When you sit down to work on licks, make sure you are taking your time. Get not only the lick itself down, but make a mental note of all the different techniques that the lick includes. Does it have bending in it? Hammer ons or Pull offs, slides, vibrato? What kind of phrasing is used? What scale is it from? What chords can it be played over? There is a lot more to a lick than just playing through it. Make sure you are really getting the most knowledge out of every lick you learn.You'll find that knowledge helpful down the road.
Single Position Applications
Single Position Applications - Overview is a video guitar lesson presented by Tom Dempsey and is sourced from Fretboard Phenom. In this section you will be introduced to the foundation of the entire course which is based on the idea of tonality shapes. Tonality shapes are a way to organize the fingerboard that allow you to do two specific things. First is to be able to grab any key wherever you are on the neck of the guitar. The second is to connect your ideas up and down the neck with a lot more ease. We're going to do this while learning the major and minor pentatonic scales, the major scale and the blues scale. We will also connect this concept to the major and minor triads and arpeggios. I'll demonstrate each of these concepts. Each scale, chord and triad will be applied to a specific exercise. You will also have the opportunity to jam using this material. Make sure you use all of the resources. The pdfs, the reference manual, jam tracks should all be used in conjunction with this course. There's a lot of material here. Take your time by focussing on a little bit at a time. Let's begin this journey!
The 5 Tonality Shapes
The 5 Tonality Shapes - Overview is a video guitar lesson presented by Tom Dempsey and is sourced from Fretboard Phenom.

Let's start to get accustomed to this idea of tonality shapes. Tonality shapes are the way that I use to organize the fingerboard and will be the foundation of this course. In connecting all of the concepts here to these five shapes you will begin to unlock the fingerboard. There are three one octave shapes and two, two octave shapes. They will always follow the order presented. Here I will present the tonality shapes in C and then see how it translates to F. In doing so you will be presented with the foundation of this course.
Major Scale
Major Scale - Demonstration is a video guitar lesson presented by Tom Dempsey and is sourced from Fretboard Phenom.

In this video we are going to go over the five fingering of the major scale which are derived from the five tonality shapes. We will also go over what the construction of the C major scale is.
Major Scale Playalongs
Major Scale Playalongs - Overview is a video guitar lesson presented by Tom Dempsey and is sourced from Fretboard Phenom.

Here we are going to reinforce the C tonality shapes and the corresponding C major scale, C major arpeggio and root position C major triad in each tonality shape. In the next upcoming videos we will replicate this methodology throughout each specific position in C major.
Major Scale Exercise 1
Major Scale Exercise 1 - Open Position Playalong is a video guitar lesson presented by Tom Dempsey and is sourced from Fretboard Phenom.

This is the major scale exercise 1. Here we will practice the C tonality shape, C major scale, C major triad arpeggio and root position C major triad in open position.

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