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Feedback
Muris Varajic17th March 2008Appreciate it guys
Danilo Capezzuto17th March 2008You are so versatile and good, chapeau Muris!!
Kosei Kubota24th January 2008Octaves, octaves, octaves.
Wes is here!
Juan M. Valero21st January 2008Cool lesson Muris
Fran21st January 2008Beautiful as always Muris
Pablo Vazquez21st January 2008Excellent lesson Muris!! Beautifull.
- Muris Varajic21st January 2008
Thanks guys!!
Spot on Gerardo,distance on higher strings is 3 frets which is great for 1-4 fingers.
However distance on lower strings is 2 frets and 1-3 is logic fingering I must say.
Seems like I played ALL octaves here with 1-4,
think I have better control over muting with my pinky,dunno
Ivan Milenkovic21st January 2008Great lesson Muris, really like your jazz lessons!
Gabriel Leopardi21st January 2008Beatiful Muris! You are doing a great job with this jazz lessons!
Gerardo Siere21st January 2008Beutifull lesson. You know how to play everything, about the octave montgomery thing some people for left hand use 1-4 for ocatves in thew trebly strings and 1-3 for the octave is on lower strings, it helps a lot if the melody go fast and need to switch strings very fast.
- Muris Varajic21st January 2008
Hope you will,it's nasty when family go mad
skennington21st January 2008If I can learn this Muris, my family will thank you! The overdrive is starting to wear them down!
Very nice indeed.
Hisham Al-Sanea20th January 2008nice and sweet lesson muris
Bedlam20th January 2008Nice lesson and great tone. I'm liking the jazz lessons.
Maximus20th January 20082 Thumbs Up!
Jerry Arcidiacono20th January 2008Beautiful tone and playing!
Dejan Farkas20th January 2008Beautiful
The Uncreator20th January 2008Very cool, Ninja muris makes another great jazz lesson!
- Muris Varajic20th January 2008
Yep,tons of mind readers at GMC.
chast20th January 2008Very cool
I wanted to request a lesson like this, but now you read my mind, Muris
Tuubsu20th January 2008Yeah those chords do sound pretty gnarly!
Nice lesson though, an interesting way of doing the job, only using octaves I mean...
Pavel20th January 2008Hahaha some crazy chords there - i'm afraid of even trying to play them
7/+5/-9 OMG! - Muris Varajic20th January 2008
Thanks guys!!
Nice spot on octaves tho Kris.
More gain,pick and you'll sound like...rocking dude. 
Bogdan Radovic20th January 2008Cool lesson Muris !
Very jazzy.. - Mark.20th January 2008
Cool ! I really begin to like this jazzy stuff
Toni Suominen20th January 2008Excellent and interesting lesson Muris! very cool jazz vibe!
silentkap20th January 2008nice lesson
- Ttask20th January 2008
Thanks a lot for this lesson ! I'm not a huge fan of jazz music, but my father is and really enjoys Wes Montgomery. I'll work on this lesson to impress him
botoxfox20th January 2008Sounds cool
- Capn' Jef20th January 2008
Thumbs up, Muris!
I like the thumbing lessons, I'm interested how this could be developed. 
Kristofer Dahl20th January 2008Awesome Muris, thanks - I would really recommend everyone to try this. Playing octaves is a fairly easy way to get a powerful sound from you guitar + if you add some distortion and play with a pick, the technique is all of a sudden perfect for rock and metal. What are you waiting for?!
- Lesson
- My notes
Hello GMC and welcome to another lesson from Jazzy Swing serial, Intermediate level this time.
It's all played in octaves,sort of Wes Montgomery style.:) Simply use your thumb to brush these octaves but be sure to have proper left hand muting, you might have some unwanted notes otherwise.
Once more we are using D major scale mostly with some neighbor notes and notes "out" of scale, just to follow our chord progression here.
Have fun with it!
Muris Varajic
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