DescriptionThis is the third lesson of Duke Robillard's Swingin' the Blues series of guitar lessons. The goal for this series is to transition a player familiar with standard 12 bar blues to more melodic and complex jazzy blues / swing playing. The series first focuses on jazzy blues and swing rhythm guitar to lay a solid foundation and then teaches passing chords, comping, riffing, double stops and lead guitar. The series ends by putting all of the new knowledge to practice in three songs: Swingin' with Lucy Mae, Lester Leaps In and Moten Swing.

In Lesson 3, Duke focuses on jazz guitar comping: punctuating within a chord progression to add rhythmic and harmonic variation.  Duke discusses:

• similarities between jazz guitar comping and jazz piano comping
• variations of the I (Bb7) chord leading the the IV chord
• picking technique
• using the sharp 9 and flat 9 as passing chords
• history of 9th and 7th chords chords in blues and early jazz
• using chords to create melodic lines
  

The lesson include the following:

• Online jazz guitar lesson with synchronized guitar tab .. 12m 01s
• Jazz guitar comping practice video with synchronized guitar tab .. 1m 04s
  
• Jazz guitar comping jam track video with synchronized guitar tab .. 1m 04s
• Melodic comping (Cmin9, F13 and F13b9) practice video with synchronized guitar tab .. 1m 40s
  
• Melodic comping (Cmin9, F13 and F13b9) jam track video with synchronized guitar tab .. 1m 40s
• Hard-copy printout of guitar tab
  

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