This section of chananhanspal.com provides a step by step approach to playing jazz guitar. The content in each page explains in a very palatable way, with the aid of standard music notation, tablature, and audio, some of the essential devices, theoretical and practical, you need to know in order to play in a jazz style.

Although the conventional methods of teaching jazz are present, and by no means extensive, you are encouraged to try out some of the less conventional guitar practices found in the Technique pages which will aid in executing more complicated type jazz phrases. Some of the practices found therein, use techniques employed, to a greater extent, by guitarists such as Allan Holdsworth and Frank Gambale.

If you intend to digest Jazz Guitar Online in its entirety, I suggest the best way is to start from the beginning; the Intervals page, and progress step by step until the Transcriptions page. That way, you start from the basic theory of how chords and scales are connected and how they are used in jazz improvisation.

Some of you may come to Jazz Guitar Online with guitar technique idiosyncrasies that you have developed over years of playing and may just want to check out some of the licks. You may want to get serious about learning jazz guitar, and as an accompaniment with other jazz education formats learn from the step by step suggestions. Either way, Jazz Guitar Online gives you a good base by which to work from in your endeavours to become a jazz player and a little bit more on the side!