Alassane
Verified buyer
09/24/25
this is a must for most guitar players: chords tones, changes, arpeggios. It's a door open to understand harmony and feel it in a very structured way. Bravo
Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary
Supercharge Your Jazz Guitar Licks with this Jazz Learning Path Core Course
Get this course and 1,000+ more with All Access
Try 14 days free. Cancel any time.
TrueFire
Educator
Genres
About this course
Welcome to Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Jazz guitar.
This Jazz Learning Path core course is presented by 2 top TrueFire educators: Frank Vignola and Sheryl Bailey.
The Lick Vocabulary 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 Vocabulary is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, Sheryl Bailey shares key bebop principles for arpeggios, voice leading, the swing feel, syncopation and common tones. In Section 2, you’ll apply those principles learning 6 bebop licks for 2-5-1 minor and 2-5-1 major applications. Frank Vignola stokes up your jazz lick vocabulary in Section 3, with 18 essential jazz licks in a variety of styles.
When you’ve completed the lessons here in Lick Vocabulary, you’ll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Lexicon, 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!
This Jazz Learning Path core course is presented by 2 top TrueFire educators: Frank Vignola and Sheryl Bailey.
The Lick Vocabulary 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 Vocabulary is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, Sheryl Bailey shares key bebop principles for arpeggios, voice leading, the swing feel, syncopation and common tones. In Section 2, you’ll apply those principles learning 6 bebop licks for 2-5-1 minor and 2-5-1 major applications. Frank Vignola stokes up your jazz lick vocabulary in Section 3, with 18 essential jazz licks in a variety of styles.
When you’ve completed the lessons here in Lick Vocabulary, you’ll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Lexicon, 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
- Apply jazz language techniques
- Expand jazz guitar vocabulary
- Learn 24 essential jazz licks
- Understand bebop soloing principles
- Develop jazz guitar lick vocabulary
Release date: 09/14/2016 • 2h 43m runtime
Sample lessons
Arpeggios (7ths)
Playalong #4
Voice Leading
Overview
Bebop Lick #2
2-5-1 Major
Bebop Lick #3
2-5-1 Minor
What's included
53 lessons • 33 charts • 41 Jam Tracks
Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary
Welcome to Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Jazz guitar.
This Jazz Learning Path core course is presented by 2 top TrueFire educators: Frank Vignola and Sheryl Bailey.
The Lick Vocabulary 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 Vocabulary is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, Sheryl Bailey shares key bebop principles for arpeggios, voice leading, the swing feel, syncopation and common tones. In Section 2, you'll apply those principles learning 6 bebop licks for 2-5-1 minor and 2-5-1 major applications. Frank Vignola stokes up your jazz lick vocabulary in Section 3, with 18 essential jazz licks in a variety of styles.
When you've completed the lessons here in Lick Vocabulary, you'll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Lexicon, 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!
This Jazz Learning Path core course is presented by 2 top TrueFire educators: Frank Vignola and Sheryl Bailey.
The Lick Vocabulary 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 Vocabulary is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, Sheryl Bailey shares key bebop principles for arpeggios, voice leading, the swing feel, syncopation and common tones. In Section 2, you'll apply those principles learning 6 bebop licks for 2-5-1 minor and 2-5-1 major applications. Frank Vignola stokes up your jazz lick vocabulary in Section 3, with 18 essential jazz licks in a variety of styles.
When you've completed the lessons here in Lick Vocabulary, you'll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Lexicon, 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!
Bebop Concepts
Understanding the building blocks of jazz lines, phrases and licks will accelerate your ability to grow your vocabulary and craft your own go-to licks. With that end in mind, Sheryl Bailey shares key bebop principles for arpeggios, voice leading, the swing feel, syncopation and common tones, in this section.
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.
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.
Arpeggios
Arpeggios - In 5th Position is a video guitar lesson presented by Sheryl Bailey and is sourced from Bebop Dojo: Essentials.
Here are all the arpeggios for our chord progression in position V.
Here are all the arpeggios for our chord progression in position V.
Arpeggios
Arpeggios - How to Practice is a video guitar lesson presented by Sheryl Bailey and is sourced from Bebop Dojo: Essentials.
Practice these in time along with your rhythm track. In the following studies we'll start from each chord tone, ascending or descending. This will present new technical challenges and by playing along with your rhythm track, it will help you develop your ears to really hear the changes and each part of the chord. This is incredibly important to an improvising musician!
Practice these in time along with your rhythm track. In the following studies we'll start from each chord tone, ascending or descending. This will present new technical challenges and by playing along with your rhythm track, it will help you develop your ears to really hear the changes and each part of the chord. This is incredibly important to an improvising musician!
Arpeggios (roots)
Arpeggios (roots) - Playalong #1 is a video guitar lesson presented by Sheryl Bailey and is sourced from Bebop Dojo: Essentials.
This study focuses on starting on the root and ascending, later on we'll start on the root and descend. By the time you finish this study you'll have a whole new perspective on your arpeggio shapes.
This study focuses on starting on the root and ascending, later on we'll start on the root and descend. By the time you finish this study you'll have a whole new perspective on your arpeggio shapes.
Arpeggios (3rds)
Arpeggios (3rds) - Playalong #2 is a video guitar lesson presented by Sheryl Bailey and is sourced from Bebop Dojo: Essentials.
This time around we'll start from all of the 3rds of the chords and ascend a few times, then descend a few times. You can really hear how different this sounds, and will really start to open your ears to hearing the 3rds of the chords, as well, it will give some new challenges on how you move around the fretboard. An added bonus would be to sing along with these as you play.
This time around we'll start from all of the 3rds of the chords and ascend a few times, then descend a few times. You can really hear how different this sounds, and will really start to open your ears to hearing the 3rds of the chords, as well, it will give some new challenges on how you move around the fretboard. An added bonus would be to sing along with these as you play.
Arpeggios (5ths)
Arpeggios (5ths) - Playalong #3 is a video guitar lesson presented by Sheryl Bailey and is sourced from Bebop Dojo: Essentials.
Now we're onto the 5ths. Ascending and descending.
Now we're onto the 5ths. Ascending and descending.
+ 46 more lessons
Reviews
6 results
NeilES335
Verified buyer
08/11/22
More that just a bunch of "licks" ... :-)
While I haven't gotten completely into it yet, this course with Farid Haque and Sheryl Bailey looks very interesting! An overview of Bebob Jazz and improvisation styles, based on arpeggios, and creating melodic lines. LIke other courses in the series, not necessarily an in depth look but an invitation to check out other courses by the teachers. I was expecting by the title to just find a series of isolated "licks" but there looks to be much more here.
Jeremy
07/20/22
The Missing Link
I've been playing for over 22 years, and jazz for 20 of those, but never got into improvisation somehow. This course has helped me realize that one major foundation I'm missing is mastery of arpeggios. I'm working on them now, for sure!
kuniya2
Verified buyer
09/22/20
Excellent!
Frank and Sheryl are both wonderful teachers and musicians. It's a joy just watching the lessons!
sindibad
07/19/20
Play Jazz Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary
It is an excellent material for understanding music.
Stop searching. Start improving with All Access.
Try 14 days free. Cancel any time.
