Jazz Techniques, Vol. 1
Essential Techniques For Jazz Guitar
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David Shorr
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About this course
Jazz guitar is built on more than scales and chord shapes. The way you connect harmony, target important notes, shape phrases, and control movement across the fretboard is what makes your playing sound musical, intentional, and authentically jazz.
David Shorr breaks down the essential techniques every developing jazz guitarist should know in his 'Jazz Techniques, Vol. 1' interactive curriculum.
"We'll work through the core techniques that shape how you move through harmony and create meaningful lines, including arpeggios, chromaticism, melodic voice leading, chord melody, and phrasing. Along the way, we'll focus on how to connect these ideas musically so they become part of your natural playing."
IN THIS COURSE, YOU'LL LEARN: How to build and apply arpeggios, use chromatic approach notes and enclosures, connect chord changes with melodic voice leading, develop chord melody arrangements, and create more expressive jazz phrases with stronger rhythmic placement and space.
You'll have TrueFire's interactive learning tools at your fingertips to customize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
The demonstrations and performances are tabbed, notated, and synced to the video lessons with controls for looping, slow motion, fretboard animation, and other tools designed to accelerate your progress.
You'll also get the tab and standard notation files to print out, downloadable Guitar Pro files to edit, and backing tracks to practice and record with.
Grab your guitar, and let's dive into Jazz Techniques, Vol. 1 with David Shorr!
David Shorr breaks down the essential techniques every developing jazz guitarist should know in his 'Jazz Techniques, Vol. 1' interactive curriculum.
"We'll work through the core techniques that shape how you move through harmony and create meaningful lines, including arpeggios, chromaticism, melodic voice leading, chord melody, and phrasing. Along the way, we'll focus on how to connect these ideas musically so they become part of your natural playing."
IN THIS COURSE, YOU'LL LEARN: How to build and apply arpeggios, use chromatic approach notes and enclosures, connect chord changes with melodic voice leading, develop chord melody arrangements, and create more expressive jazz phrases with stronger rhythmic placement and space.
You'll have TrueFire's interactive learning tools at your fingertips to customize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
The demonstrations and performances are tabbed, notated, and synced to the video lessons with controls for looping, slow motion, fretboard animation, and other tools designed to accelerate your progress.
You'll also get the tab and standard notation files to print out, downloadable Guitar Pro files to edit, and backing tracks to practice and record with.
Grab your guitar, and let's dive into Jazz Techniques, Vol. 1 with David Shorr!
Release date: 11/12/2026 • 0h 51m runtime
Sample lessons
Arpeggios
Dialing in Your Practice
Arpeggios | Ascending
Play It
Arpeggios | Ascending & Descending
Play It
Arpeggios | Two-Octave Sweep
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What's included
31 lessons • 19 charts • 19 Jam Tracks
Hey guys, David Shorr here.
In this set of lessons, we're working on essential jazz guitar techniques. If you want your playing to sound more connected, musical, and intentional, this is where it starts.
We're going to focus on core concepts like arpeggios, chromaticism, melodic voice leading, chord melody, and phrasing. These are the tools that shape how you move through harmony and create meaningful lines.
Let's break these down step by step so that they become part of your natural playing.
All right, grab your guitar and let's dive in.
In this set of lessons, we're working on essential jazz guitar techniques. If you want your playing to sound more connected, musical, and intentional, this is where it starts.
We're going to focus on core concepts like arpeggios, chromaticism, melodic voice leading, chord melody, and phrasing. These are the tools that shape how you move through harmony and create meaningful lines.
Let's break these down step by step so that they become part of your natural playing.
All right, grab your guitar and let's dive in.
In this lesson, we’ll cover how arpeggios are built and why they’re such an important tool for jazz improvisation. We’ll learn how to create four-note arpeggios from the major scale and explore how chord shapes can help us visualize and navigate those sounds across the fretboard.
In this lesson, we’ll go over some practical ways to strengthen our arpeggio practice. We’ll work on learning the fingerboard, moving through scales on individual strings, practicing arpeggios in both directions, and developing the control needed for sweep picking.
In this lesson, we’ll work through an ascending arpeggio drill in C major, moving through the arpeggios built from each note of the scale to strengthen our fretboard knowledge and technique.
In this lesson, we’ll practice moving through our arpeggios in both directions, ascending through each arpeggio while working backward through the scale to develop greater flexibility in our jazz lines.
In this lesson, we’ll work through two-octave arpeggios built around F6 chord shapes. We’ll use sweep picking to connect the notes smoothly while practicing the shapes in several positions on the fretboard.
In this lesson, we’ll practice major and minor seventh arpeggios from the major scale while focusing on resolution. We’ll learn to hear and feel how these arpeggio lines can lead naturally into a musical destination.
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