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Explore jazz guitar harmony, chord changes, and improvisation with Jim Ellis of Fretprints. Each episode breaks down a classic jazz standard — covering the form, chord progressions, scale choices, and solo approaches — so you can play and improvise with confidence. Whether you're working through bebop heads, blues forms, or modal tunes, this podcast gives you practical tools to deepen your musicianship and develop your own voice on the guitar.
Visit https://fretprints.com for interactive exercises, courses, and live coaching.
Explore jazz guitar harmony, chord changes, and improvisation with Jim Ellis of Fretprints. Each episode breaks down a classic jazz standard — covering the form, chord progressions, scale choices, and solo approaches — so you can play and improvise with confidence. Whether you're working through bebop heads, blues forms, or modal tunes, this podcast gives you practical tools to deepen your musicianship and develop your own voice on the guitar.
Visit https://fretprints.com for interactive exercises, courses, and live coaching.
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Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
Blues Language
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
In this episode of the Guitar and Improvisation Podcast, we dive deep into the blues language — the vocabulary that gives jazz its soul and authenticity. We explore essential blues phrasing techniques, bends, call-and-response patterns, and how to incorporate blues inflections into your jazz guitar improvisation. Learning to speak the blues is fundamental to sounding authentic in any style of jazz, and this episode gives you the tools to do just that.
Visit https://freprints.com for more lessons, courses, and resources to deepen your musicianship and improvisation skills.
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