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JGP recommends JBGI!
Jazz Guitar Pro recommends serious student of jazz guitar, to consider signing up to The Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute (JBGI)! The first two videos in the playlist is a behind the scenes impression of what JBGI is all about.
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Know thy fretboard!
Comparison of the distribution of chord tones in a 2-5-1 progression. All of the chords tones, and all of the extension tones of the chords fits nicely into one and the same scale - the Ab Major Scale. Notice the relation between arpeggios and intervals of the chords, the shared notes, and the tone that sets a chords apart.
Altered dominant: Where you can superimpose pentatonic shapes over these changes? For instance, you can use F minor pentatonic over Bbm7, F# minor pentatonic over Eb7, and G minor pentatonic over Abmaj7. Then you’re playing the 5, b7, 1, 9 and 11 of Bbm7; the #9, b5, #5, b7, and the b9 of Eb7; and the 7, 9, 3, #4 (the lydian sound), and the 6th over the Abmaj7.


