How to Learn Jazz Guitar Tunes: Practice the Melody in Three Fretboard Positions
If you can only play a tune's melody in one place on the neck, your soloing will get stuck there too. Here is the simplest fix beginners can use today.
Jazz Guitar Improvisation Tips: Why the Original Melody Should Stay in Your Head While You Solo
If your improvisation drifts away from the song, you're not soloing — you're playing a different tune. The fix is to keep the original melody humming inside you while you play, and here's the exact mechanism that makes it work.
How to Learn Jazz Guitar Tunes: Start by Singing the Melody
Most beginners try to learn a jazz standard by chasing chord symbols. The faster route is the one almost no one starts with: sing the melody first. Here's why, and how to begin today.
How to Play Jazz Guitar Over Church and Pop Music
When a jazz guitarist plays over church or pop music — songs built on triads rather than seventh-chord harmony — the fastest and most reliable adaptation is the pentatonic block anchored to the melody. This post explains the approach Junewon Choi teaches in the Functional Diagonal Approach (FDA), including why melody must stay in your inner ear throughout the solo and how to listen like the masters who played it before you.