I was desperately looking for an Es-135, one came up and while I was putting down my credit card details it got snatched up.
Found this a week later for the same price. Enjoying it so far!
I thought I’d change the pickups but the 490 at the neck is quite nice for jazz to my ears…

Played with him a few times in the Milwaukee area. Created a number of CDs, wrote several books, ran the website guitarinstructor.com, and authored the reharmonized Real Book.

Hello, I’m a guitarist in my last year at jazz school. Though I mainly play in contemporary bands I find that studying jazz gives me a clear direction to focus my practice.

All that being said I’m looking for advice when it comes to daily review of scales.

I want to work on Major, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, and the Altered Scale

For each I want to work on scales in 3rds, 4ths
7th Arpeggios, Triad arpeggios.

Yesterday I ran through just the major scale in the 5 positions single note then 3rds, 4ths, and both arpeggios patterns I mentioned, switching keys each time.

This took up a large part of my practice that I felt could be better spent. And I didn’t even do this with all of the scales I want to be fluent in!

My question is how do I effectively review these consistently? Should I alternate days working on different scales or patterns?

I also feel overwhelmed with how many possible patterns of the scales I could be working on.

This was a bit of a ramble and I could be completely going down the wrong avenue in terms of what I should actually be working on.

Any advice is appreciated!

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I took Slash’s solo from Sweet Child O’ Mine and reworked the melodic ideas using more of a modern jazz / bebop vocabulary.

I didn’t change the harmony or the backing track. I mainly changed the way the solo itself develops: phrasing, melodic language, chromaticism, and some of the improvisational ideas.

I’m curious what you guys think. Does it still feel like Sweet Child O’ Mine, or does it start sounding like a completely different musical language?