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My work at several online lesson sites earned me a Gibson-Epiphone endorsement. They sent me a wonderful machine, an Emperor II Joe Pass model in exchange for some simple, intro to jazz guitar video lessons. Gibson recently published the lessons on their site (free to view):

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Less...amp;search=true

Over the last decade I've been more and more interested in solo jazz guitar. And that interest of course led me to the magnificient work of Joe Pass. As such, doing those lessons on that site with a Joe Pass model guitar is a sincerely cherished achievement for me. :)

Enjoy the vids!

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Thats awsome. I noticed that you hold down your dominant seventh chords with the index finger baring a fret and with the middle finger holding down the third of the chord, I almost do the exact same thing however I find it easier to use the pinky finger to hold down the third. You should make some videos teaching Jazz/Blues progressions, those tend to be my favorite.

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I recently extracted some of footage from the larger context of a series of lessons on chord melody playing style. In it I play a little bit of W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" by way of demonstration. The Gibson website picked up on it and embedded it on their lesson pages. It has been in rotation as a featured Lesson Of The Day.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Less...ouis-Blues-320/

Gibson originally gave me the guitar to do a series of video lessons on an "Introduction To Jazz Style Guitar". For example:

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Less...z%20Style%20(2)

Enjoy!

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Gibson has been gradually adding more of my lessons. My latest is pretty neat, a concise, but still complete intro to Chord Melody Style from the ground up. All still free on Gibson.com! ;)

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Less...Chord-Style-621

Here are some of my other recent lessons for Gibson:

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Less...Style-Blues-512

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Less...fter-Youve-Gone

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Less...Louis-Blues-320

Happy viewing!

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Been a while since I posted here. :P Thought I'd drop in and put up a couple more recent links.

Here's one aimed at beginners trying to learn lead. It's a primer on combining fills with simple chords in a blues.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Less...ead-Rhythm-111/

Here's another Blues Orchestration idea:

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Less...ation-In-A-112/

Enjoy!

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Oh, yeah! And I earned an amp endorsement with Reason Amps this past fall.

http://www.reasonamps.com

The idea with these vids is to demonstrate the basic settings & parameters of the amp with different guitars.

1. Epiphone jazz box into normal channel.

2. Epiphone jazz box into bright channel.

3. Epiphone jazz box into stack channel.

4. Fender Strat into normal channel.

5. Fender Strat into bright channel.

6. Fender Strat into stack channel.

(Check out my shirt in the vid. :P )

Happy listening!

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Good stuff. I missed your posts earlier. I like jazz, so I'll take advantage of your videos. I play a Squire Vista series Venus hooked up to a Westbury Model 550 amp (that I've had since the early 80's) ran through a BOSS DS-1 Distortion Pedal (I'm an old Punk/Grunge rocker).

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Good stuff. I missed your posts earlier. I like jazz, so I'll take advantage of your videos. I play a Squire Vista series Venus hooked up to a Westbury Model 550 amp (that I've had since the early 80's) ran through a BOSS DS-1 Distortion Pedal (I'm an old Punk/Grunge rocker).

heheh..me too.

Used to use old Rickenbacher basses til I had to sell during an unfortunate financial period.

Now have mostly old Danelectros with their wonderfully crappy lipstick pickups.

Love the Danelectro Baritone 6-string sound.

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This is the bass I use most right now

http://media.photobucket.com/image/danelec...horn2008001.jpg

I found the pic online, but this is the same model I have. Danelectros are simple tools.. but if its the sound you're looking for nothing takes it's place.

...heh heh.. except perhaps that 1970 Rick that I sold and will never be able to afford to buy back.. :pimp:

If you dig the guitar sound from the old spaghetti westerns (and I do) that comes from the old Danelectro baritones.

Nothing like sittin down with your guitar and watching some High Plains Drifter with a bottle of whisky on the table.

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