Foundations
Set up your instrument and technique for jazz, learn to read tab and notation, know every note on the neck, and read rhythms with confidence.
By the end of this module you will be able to
- Hold the pick and fret notes with the economy of motion jazz tempos demand
- Read guitar tablature and standard notation, including rhythms, ties and rests
- Name any note on the fretboard up to the 12th fret without counting
- Play the chromatic and major scales in position with a metronome
- Count and clap syncopated rhythms in 4/4 and 3/4
Everything later in the course assumes the skills in this module. Experienced players should still skim it: lessons 1.3 and 1.4 (fretboard note names and rhythm reading) are the two skills most self-taught guitarists have never finished.