Sheryl Bailey

Sheryl Bailey answers student questions in this live Q&A session from February 2018, covering ear training, bebop scales, and whatever attendees brought to the table — her teaching philosophy being…

Sheryl Bailey shares her concept of pluralities — exploring families of chord expansions to create modern harmonic ideas in both soloing and comping. By grouping related voicings into chord…

Sheryl Bailey demonstrates melodic embellishment for jazz guitar: creating melodies from chord structures using approach tones . A natural follow-up to her earlier classes, this session focuses on…

Sheryl Bailey shows how to expand your chordal palette and melodic lines by converting to min/maj7 voicings from the jazz melodic minor scale. One voicing type, applied across all the common chord…

Jack Wilkins and Sheryl Bailey perform jazz standards and field questions from viewers in this intimate 2006 concert-clinic, recorded live in Jack's New York apartment. Between tunes, the two…

Sheryl Bailey is joined by her great friend, guitarist Chris Bergson , for a class on the art of the guitar duo — a format the two have developed through their own special collaboration. What's…

Sheryl Bailey teaches her "Bebop Flow" system for creating long, fluid bebop lines: the dominant 7 bebop scale combined with a group of chord substitutions she calls the "Family of 4." One compact…

Sheryl Bailey continues her Boot Camp Basics series, moving from fretboard organization into chord voicings and playing through jazz harmony — built on her conviction that chord voicings and melodic…

Sheryl Bailey lays out the fundamentals she considers essential not just for jazz and bebop guitar, but for being an accomplished guitarist, period: organizing the fretboard, understanding where…

Sheryl Bailey teaches drop 2 chord voicings in this third installment of her Boot Camp Basics series for jazz guitar. After covering scales in Part I and drop 3 voicings in Part II, she turns to the…

Sheryl Bailey continues her Bebop Flow series, showing how to combine her "Family of 4" chord substitutions to play over altered II-V's and create long, fluid, saxophone-like lines. The system pairs…

Sheryl Bailey explores "Naima" , John Coltrane's ballad of kaleidoscopic, evolving colors, as a guide to the family of modern dominant 7th sounds. Coltrane composed the tune in 1959, naming it after…