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Flying Home – Charlie Christian’s guitar solo

Learn a classic solo from the great jazz guitarist Charlie Christian



Chitlins Con Carne – Kenny Burrell – Solo Jazz Guitar

This classic Kenny Burrell tune is a 12-bar blues in C, with some tasty pentatonic licks. Here we have the melody of the song and the 1st chorus solo. Get familiar with the tune with this video and get the PDF below. Download the original recording from the Kenny Burrell album “Midnight Blue” here: https://amzn.to/2GdCwqk


Dream a Little Dream of Me – Solo Jazz Guitar arrangement

Check out this solo guitar arrangement of the classic jazz tune “Dream a Little Dream of Me” with music writted by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt and lyrics by Gus Kahn.



5 Bebop Jazz Guitar Licks

Learn these bebop jazz guitar licks and work them into your own solos. Get a full explanation of each lick when you download the PDF.



Stella by Starlight – Solo Jazz Guitar Arrangment

A solo guitar arrangement of the classic jazz standard “Stella by Starlight” by Victor Young.



Tango – Solo Guitar

Check out this fun and relatively easy Argentine style tango for classical guitar. Notice the staccato notes in there, this makes things sound so much more dramatic and, well, tango-y! The A section of this piece is in the key of A minor, while the B section moves to the parallel major key of A major. This is a common element in tango, and many tango compositions also include a C section. We hope you enjoy this one, and check out our upcoming Spanish Guitar learning course on our Soundslice page to learn how to play this and other similar pieces!



El Espejismo – A Rumba Study for Legato and Arpeggio technique

This original rumba will help you work on playing even slurs, and is also fun to play!



Gymnopedie No. 1 – Erik Satie – Solo Classical Guitar

French composer Erik Satie wrote some fantastic piano pieces. Gymnopedie no. 1 is one of his most famous compositions and sounds great on classical guitar.



Charlie Christian’s Guitar Solo on Grand Slam – Jazz Guitar TAB

This solo is a 12-bar blues in the key of F recorded by the Benny Goodman Sextet in 1940. Although recorded in the swing era, it introduces some early bebop concepts. Played to the iReal Pro backing track app.



Estudio No. 2 by Francisco Tárrega – Classical Guitar

This beautiful short piece by Francisco Tárrega requires the ability to play barre chords and an a-m-i arpeggio, exactly like the arpeggio pattern of Romanza. You can also play variations of this using block chords or tremelo, as explained in our Romanza lesson video.




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