Book a private online lesson HERE: michaelmcclintockmusic@gmail.com I’ve always found it enjoyable to learn chords by actually learning songs that I liked. I always had I hard time simply learning…

Book a private online lesson HERE: michaelmcclintockmusic@gmail.com Triads are crucial to know. It doesn’t get much more fundamental than triads, but that doesn’t mean we can’t come up with some…

Book a private online lesson HERE: michaelmcclintockmusic@gmail.com 7th chords are fundamental to any guitarist or musician for that matter. It doesn’t matter if you play jazz, rock, funk, or country…

Book a private online lesson HERE: michaelmcclintockmusic@gmail.com The “Pat Metheny Lick” has been discussed many times before, but I’m always looking for new ideas to inspire myself and my students…

Book a private online lesson HERE: michaelmcclintockmusic@gmail.com Here we have a second phrase of groups of five notes inspired by the one and only Kurt Rosenwinkel. Odd groups of notes…

Book a private online lesson HERE: michaelmcclintockmusic@gmail.com This is a very interesting and challenging phrase in groups of five. I took this phrase from Kurt’s composition Minor Blues from the…

Book a private online lesson HERE: michaelmcclintockmusic@gmail.com I took this melody from the song “How deep is the ocean” off of Kurt’s album Intuit. We all at some point in…

Book a private online lesson HERE: michaelmcclintockmusic@gmail.com Any scale can take years to master. I feel music can never truly be mastered but practicing in all 12 keys for me…

Book a private online lesson HERE: michaelmcclintockmusic@gmail.com The Altered Scale is one of the most commonly used scales in jazz and it comes from the Melodic Minor Scale. I’m still…

Book a private online lesson HERE: michaelmcclintockmusic@gmail.com The four tones of a 7th chord arpeggio are always solid note choices to use as “connecting” tones. I’ve heard the great bebop…