This can be off putting until you realise that virtually all altered chords are based around a small selection of more familiar shapes. Have a look for yourself. Based on the regular A7 ...

IV and V chords, A7, D7 and E7. Figure 1 is an improvised solo played over the 12-bar form. Globally, one can think of the lines played over A7 as being based on the A Mixolydian mode (A ...

Jim Oblon takes an eight-bar rhythm and applies some fingerpicking ideas that could help get you out of a jam and put you ...