Today’s lesson is all about demystifying the complexity of bebop playing on jazz guitar. It’s actually much simpler than most people think to start creating jazz lines. In this example, we’re using a major II-V-I progression in F major. Here’s the process: 1. Outline each arpeggio: - G minor 7 arpeggio (ii) - C7 arpeggio (V) - Fmaj7 arpeggio (I) 2. Anticipate each arpeggio with a chromatic enclosure to the root. - Before starting each arpeggio, use a chromatic enclosure pattern that targets the

Here’s a Bebop Challenge with Gerard Presencer ! 🎺🎵❤️ “In this exercise (which is actually the culmination of a set of exercises developing jazz articulation), I take a journey around G7 using various enclosures around the chord tones and connect using the bebop dominant scale -and a Coltrane turnaround towards the end starting up on the B. In this example, I find it helps my focus to look at the top center of the bell and keeping a similar/consistent tone through all ranges of airflow. I trea