In this quick lesson, guitarist and educator Chuck Anderson explains more about arpeggios and scales. The most obvious techniques used...
The whole tone scale is one of the lesser used scales in jazz Improvisation. However, it still has some excellent improvisational applications. Chuck Anderson explains. First,...
Guitarist and educator Chuck Anderson explains Double Chromatic Alterations for Dominant Chords. Alterations on Dominant chords are a common harmonic device used in jazz. There are...
Guitarist and educator Chuck Anderson discusses the three chords most frequently used in jazz – the 7th, maj7th and m7th chords. First, they are four part...
Guitarist and educator Chuck Anderson reviews three specific things that cause guitar players problems in the short and in the long run. These issues seem to...
Guitarist and educator Chuck Anderson explains how to extend arpeggios. Let’s begin today with a definition of an arpeggio. Fundamentally, an arpeggio is the execution of...
Guitarist and educator Chuck Anderson looks at the minor 3rd substitute to generate new scales for Dominant 7th solos. In my last article, I discussed the...
Jazz improvisation on Dominant 7th chords – Guitarist Chuck Anderson provides an interesting approach to create new tensions in your solo. The most obvious scale used...
Jazz guitarist, educator and JGT contributor, Chuck Anderson provides some insight into what makes a modal song. The modes are a series of seven scales that...
Jazz guitarist and educator Chuck Anderson provides some insight into learning jazz guitar. Interest in the study of jazz guitar is at an all-time high. However,...
Jazz guitarist and educator Chuck Anderson provides a follow up lesson to his last lesson on the diminished scale. The concept of a symmetric scale refers...
Jazz guitarist and educator Chuck Anderson provides a quick lesson on Diminished Scale Fingerings. The Diminished scale is an 8 note or octatonic series of notes...
Jazz guitarist and educator Chuck Anderson provides a quick lesson on Double Third Chord Voicings. Jazz chords typically use 4 different notes. The three most common...
Guitarist and educator Chuck Anderson offers some advice to find a teacher that will help you develop your own unique musical personality. As many of you...
Key Changes without Key Signature Changes – Jazz guitarist Chuck Anderson introduces a very effective approach to stimulate your chord progressions. In writing original music, you...
