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Go to my site and read this blog, Left Hand Right Hand http://www.jazzguitarstartingright.com/left%20hand%20right%20hand.pdf here's the short url http://tinyurl.com/266r6jz Dave Woods

Greetings everyone, I don't want to start a sort of dispute, my own experience in the field of Jazz is very limited, but i'd say stretching exercises strike me as being pointless. I'd say that every

A few years ago I used a hand exerciser and developed thick, stodgy, slow fingers after a couple of months. The best finger exercise is scales - which is also good for ear training, I suggest that

Ron, Do you have an example or two with the fingerings you are using? Common tones help, but I find that visualizing where the 3rd finger needs to go, and then placing the 3rd finger first helps quite

Ron You might want to look at this old thread: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/jazz_guitar/message/89179 -- Alisdair MacRae Birch Guitarist/Bassist/Educator/Arranger http://www.alisdair.com

Hi Ron, Spending more time with guitar in hand will help you the most. It's not just about strength, but also about independence, coordination of LH and RH, and even eye/ear/hand coordination. It's

Ron; I have a similar problem with pain in the muscles in the outer part of the forearm near the elbow. There are two things that seem to help. One is a light (< 5 lb.) dumbbell with standard bicep

Jimmy is a fabulous teacher. I took private lessons with him, but he had to stop giving private lessons when the Website with online lessons occupied so much of his time. Now that the Website is in

I currently have bronze acoustic guitar 13/56 on my Eastman 910 archtop. Action is about medium. Pretty manly for these aging hands. I find I have the most trouble not too surprisingly below the third

This is way harder that single note lines - physically and mentally. When I started with a teacher he wrote out tunes with chords on most every note and had me work on playing

You may also want to contact a university or community college near you, and ask for a referral. Those places usually have adjunct faculty who teach privately, and they could give you some leads.

I'm in Philly too (Northern 'burbs anyway). Yes Jimmy Bruno gives lessons in person for, understandably, major $$$. Probably valuable if you're good enough to take it in. Maybe valuable to get started

My teacher advised carrying around a tennis ball and squeezing for left (fretboard) hand strength.

There are some pretty cool jazzy Christmas albums out there. "Jingle Bell Jazz" is pretty good, and there are others. Last year, I did a big band Christmas gig where we played "We Three Kings" in

Try 6/8 time... I also agree with Juan, the fun is often in the reharmonization. Although too much dissonance in a Christmas carol, might upset some people. Scott On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:27:42 -0500

Slight veer: Hall of Fame Baseball player Ted Williams used to carry around one or two lacrosse balls that he used to strengthen his hands by squeezing. Seemed to work all right for him, if his record

Yes, I guess throwing some sevenths?into it to?get it out of the strict C major feel?? Maybe because I was just playing the melody line, that it was hard to get jazzy over.? The bass line was more

Oh, I dunno, I think you could do some good stuff w/ "Joy to the World". Try it w/ a bossa nova beat, too. Far as the harmony goes, that's where the fun is, trying to reharmonize the tune to give it a