Juampy Juarez

Juampy Juarez explores the Harmonic Major scale — sometimes called the "artificial scale" — one of the least commonly used but most intriguing seven-note scales. Combining elements of the major…

Juampy Juarez teaches the first three Messiaen Modes — the symmetrical scales compiled by French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) — and the tonal and post-tonal theory behind them. Mode 1 is…

Guitarist Juampy Juarez teaches economy picking and sweep picking — two of his favorite techniques — and shows how to apply them to jazz playing, including economy picking with three…

Juampy Juarez teaches quartal harmony — chords built in fourths that are neither major nor minor, with an ambiguous, suspended sound. The lineage runs from Wagner, Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky…

Juampy Juarez explores the chromatic concept — superimposing chords over other chords so the soloist plays harmonies that are not in the tune , reharmonizing with lines at the speed of thought. John…

Juampy Juarez teaches II–V–I voicings built from clusters — chords containing at least one 2nd — drawn from the melodic minor, harmonic minor, and harmonic major scales. The…

Juampy Juarez distills more than 33 years of teaching into a step-by-step method for one of the biggest obstacles in jazz and fusion: improvising chord by chord. Instead of running scales, you build…

Juampy Juarez teaches his approach to inside/outside improvisation — playing with consonance and dissonance across a solo. The language started in the '60s with Coltrane, Evans, Shorter…

Juampy Juarez shows how to improvise with counterpoint — two independent voices moving at once — with a focus on contrary motion, where the lines move in opposite directions. Building on…

Juampy Juarez teaches his Bitonal 2line concept: improvising two simultaneous lines on guitar, each in a different tonality. It grows out of Jimmy Wyble's two-line technique, which Juampy learned…

Juampy Juarez introduces bitonality — using two keys at the same time — and shows how to make it work on jazz guitar. The sound is contemporary and dissonant, and while a few pianists like Richie…

Juampy Juarez explores the minor major 7th arpeggio — a wide-interval device from the melodic minor scale that his friend John Stowell showed him years ago. Arpeggios are a great way to avoid…

Juampy Juarez teaches the Melodic Minor #5 — a dark, tense seven-note scale from the diminished tonality (C, D, Eb, F, G#, A, B) that few players know, despite its prevalence in jazz and classical…

Juampy Juarez explores the harp harmonics extended technique — and how to adapt it to regular playing: improvising, comping, and composing. This is Juampy's second MMC clinic on harp harmonics, and…

En esta segunda parte de su clínica sobre dodecafonismo , el guitarrista Juampy Juarez expande los conceptos enseñados en “Dodecafonismo en la Improvisación: Parte…

El guitarrista Juampy Juarez enseña cómo aplicar el dodecafonismo — las series de 12 notas sin repetir inventadas por Arnold Schoenberg y extendidas por sus discípulos…

Juampy Juarez shares his own investigations and variations on Jimmy Wyble's concept of two-line, or contrapuntal, improvisation — playing two independent lines on the guitar at once. He demonstrates…

Juampy Juarez presents his original investigations into set theory applied to jazz improvisation — the mathematical system behind the music of Stravinsky, Bartok, Webern, Berg, and Schoenberg…

Juampy Juarez shows how to bring twelve-tone row techniques — Arnold Schoenberg's compositional system, expanded by Alban Berg and Anton Webern — into jazz improvisation. Rather than abstract…

Guitarist Juampy Juarez opens his Augmented Tonality series with a deep dive into the whole tone scale — a six-note, fully symmetrical sound that entered Western music with Richard Wagner and sits…

Juampy Juarez teaches the symmetrical augmented scale — a six-note, hexatonic scale (C, D#, E, G, G#, B) sometimes called the magic scale for its reharmonization possibilities. Introduced by…

Juampy Juarez teaches walking bass lines on the guitar — one of the most valuable comping tools there is, especially in duos. With one foot in tradition and one in modern jazz, he shows how to…

Juampy Juarez teaches a practical clinic on building speed and accuracy on the guitar, drawing on techniques he's learned across jazz, rock, fusion, blues, and heavy metal — from jazz lines to…

Juampy Juarez explores the modes of the melodic minor scale — often called the jazz minor — one of the most used scales in jazz and fusion since the 1960s. The clinic goes beyond using it for…

Juampy Juarez teaches the harp-like world of guitar harmonics, sharing the techniques of Ted Greene and Lenny Breau along with chordal ideas in the spirit of Ralph Towner . Ever since discovering…

Juampy Juarez explores using the whole fretboard to break out of strict position playing. Most guitarists learn the instrument through 'pentatonic box' positions and never move beyond them; playing…

Juampy Juarez teaches polyphonic improvisation — soloing with lines and chords together — for the solo guitar style, duo with a bass player, or guitar trio. Many fine solo players finish their chord…

Juampy Juarez shows how the humble major triad becomes a powerful device for improvising and composing. Because major triads exist inside every heptatonic scale we use in Western music — plus…

Juampy Juarez teaches the art of comping in a vast array of group settings — duo, trio, quartet, and solo guitar — along with rootless comping concepts . There are no formulas for better comping…

Juampy Juarez explores the diminished scale — the symmetrical, eight-note scale heard in the music of Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, John Coltrane, Allan Holdsworth, John McLaughlin, and Adam Rogers…