In this lesson, you will work on a comping study for a jazz blues in Bb. This 12-bar chord progression built on dominant chords appears in many jazz standards. You’ll get familiar with essential jazz blues chords that you can reuse in other songs. The goal is to help you develop strong rhythm ...

Moment’s Notice is a hard bop jazz standard composed by John Coltrane. It was recorded for the album Blue Train (1957) in Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Hackensack. The song is played uptempo (225 BPM) and built on fast-moving ii-V-I progressions that cycle through multiple key centers.

In this lesson, you will learn how to play the chords of Autumn Leaves. There are a number of different ways that you can comp through a jazz standard on the guitar. This chord study on Autumn Leaves shows how to go beyond basic comping by adding movement and variation to the chord progression.

In this study, I use a mix of

It Could Happen to You is a popular jazz standard from the Great American Songbook. Written in 1943 by Jimmy Van Heusen, the song was featured in the film And the Angels Sing and quickly became a favorite with jazz musicians.

In this lesson, you’ll learn Herb Ellis’s ch...

Cool Blues is a jazz blues composed by Charlie Parker in 1947. It’s a blues in C and one of Parker’s well-known heads built on a simple, catchy idea.

In this lesson, you’ll learn the theme of Cool Blues, a solo chorus based on Grant Green’s recording, and one chorus of my own.