Mike Demicco - You Can Play Jazz Guitar Vol. 1

In this Homespun videos series, you’ll learn the skills every guitar player needs to play beautiful solos and create exciting improvisations. Jazz pro Mike DeMicco gives you a complete understanding of what jazz guitar is all about, taking you through a wide variety of scales, modes, arpeggios and chord voicings, and then teaches you how to practice them so you can move around the fingerboard with ease.

Videos

• Tuning & Major Scale Positions (07:20) - In this intro video, we meet jazz guitarist Mike DeMicco and go over tuning and the positions of the major scale.

• Diatonic Chords & Arpeggios (08:17) - Next we learn about diatonic chords and arpeggios.

• Modes & Chord Numbers (10:18) - Here we learn what modes are, what the different modes are named, and how to use chord numbers to play different chord progressions.

• Coordinating Left/Right Hand Techniques & Using a Metronome (08:06) - Mike goes over left and right hand techniques in order to play more fluidly as well as introducing us to the metronome.

• Mode Exercises & Arppegios at the 8th Fret (08:03) - In this video, we learn mode exercises in different positions and we look at arpeggios played at the 8th fret.

• More on Arpeggios (09:09) - Here we see arpeggios played from the 5th and 10th fret and learn an advanced arpeggio exercise.

• Diatonic Chords & Examples of a 2m-5-1 Progression (10:36) - Next, we go over diatonic chords in the keys of F and Eb major and see examples of a 2m-5-1 progression.

• Major Scale in Other Keys & Performance of "Just Too Minor" (10:40) - In this tutorial, Mike goes over major scale positions in different keys and we see a performance and breakdown of the song "Just Too Minor"

• "Just Too Minor" Played Slower, Blues Licks, & Final Thoughts (09:43) - In this last video we see the song "Just Too Minor" played slower with more analysis, we go over the comping of different blues licks, and get Mike's final thoughts.