
In this lesson series, you will be exploring the world of Jazz guitar with Jane Miller.
Lesson 1
This exciting interview takes a close look at the playing and teaching of Jane Miller. Learn about her influences, some jazz recommendations, and her musical experience.
Length: 43:05 Difficulty: 0.5 Members OnlyLesson 2
Jane Miller talks about her new jazz series and provides a couple quick tips to get you started.
Length: 9:03 Difficulty: 1.0 Members OnlyLesson 3
Jane Miller explains the importance of hand stretches and warm-up exercises.
Length: 4:06 Difficulty: 0.5 Members OnlyLesson 4
Jane explains the chord changes used in a 12 bar jazz style blues.
Length: 17:30 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 5
Jane Miller shares some fun ideas about soloing over a 12 bar blues.
Length: 22:08 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 6
Jane talks more about the ii-V-I progression and how to work it into your jazz playing.
Length: 7:25 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 7
Jane Miller shares some valuable thoughts regarding chord tensions.
Length: 20:10 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 8
Jane provides an introductory lesson on the melodic minor scale.
Length: 2:44 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 9
Jane explains how the melodic minor scale and its corresponding modes are used in jazz melodies.
Length: 18:09 Difficulty: 3.0 Members OnlyLesson 10
Jane takes a look at movable chord forms played on the treble strings.
Length: 20:39 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 11
Jane Miller expands on her discussion of movable chord forms and how they apply to jazz.
Length: 19:18 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 12
Jane Miller shares a wonderful lesson about the importance of rhythm.
Length: 7:58 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 13
Jane Miller explores more rhythm and groove with another lesson using the metronome.
Length: 7:40 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 14
Jane Miller continues her discussion on rhythm and using a metronome.
Length: 6:15 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 15
Jane Miller concludes her discussion on metronomes and forming daily practice routines.
Length: 10:27 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 16
Jane Miller dives into her first lesson on right hand techniques.
Length: 3:58 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 17
Jane Miller dives right into part 2 of her Right Hand Techniques mini-series.
Length: 5:00 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 18
Jane Miller talks about fingerstyle playing exclusively in the third installment of Right Hand Techniques.
Length: 18:05 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 19
Jane Miller explores drop 2 voicings in this lesson.
Length: 18:06 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 20
Jane Miller talks about a "bargain chord" in this lesson. Learn what a bargain chord is and how it can be applied to your playing.
Length: 15:35 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 21
Jane Miller talks about chord solos in part one of this fascinating mini-series.
Length: 18:43 Difficulty: 2.5 FREELesson 22
Jane Miller explores another aspect of chord solos in part two of this fun topic.
Length: 6:27 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 23
Jane Miller concludes her discussion on chord solos.
Length: 13:59 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 24
Jane Miller explores some common Latin vamps in this lesson.
Length: 10:49 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 25
Jane Miller shares her insights on the topic of practice versus repertoire practice.
Length: 7:39 Difficulty: 0.5 Members OnlyLesson 26
Jane Miller plays an original song called "Bedtime Story" that showcases techniques discussed in earlier lessons such as the use of open strings and Bossa Nova comping.
Length: 4:19 Difficulty: 1.0 Members OnlyLesson 27
Jane demonstrates another original song called "Free Alongside Ship" that uses techniques learned in previous lessons.
Length: 3:00 Difficulty: 1.0 Members OnlyLesson 28
Jane Miller shares an original tuned called "The Other Room." Similar to songs taught in the past few lessons, "The Other Room" showcases techniques that Jane taught earlier in the series. See if you can...
Length: 4:55 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 29
Jane Miller takes a look at diminished chords in this lesson. She also touches on diminished scales and their relationship with diminished and dominant chords.
Length: 11:36 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 30
Jane Miller continues her discussion on diminished chords. In this lesson, she touches on their inversions and how they can be used in chord progressions.
Length: 11:43 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 31
Jane Miller changes gears and talks about diminished scales that go along with the diminished chords you learned.
Length: 12:48 Difficulty: 3.0 Members OnlyLesson 32
Jane Miller touches on making diminished 7th chords a substitution for dominant 7th chords.
Length: 15:38 Difficulty: 3.0 Members OnlyLesson 33
Jane Miller returns to the subject of diminished scales. This time she explains how they fit in with the chord substitutions you learned about in the last lesson.
Length: 14:28 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 34
Jane Miller starts explaining arpeggios. In continuation of the last couple of lessons, she starts with diminished 7th chord arpeggios.
Length: 10:07 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 35
Jane Miller continues her discussion on arpeggios in this lesson. This time around, she focuses on major 7th chord arpeggios.
Length: 9:42 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 36
In continuation of her last lesson, Jane Miller discusses another use for major 7th arpeggios.
Length: 8:50 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 37
Jane Miller gives a few more examples of using major 7th arpeggios against minor chords and explains how you can better incorporate them into your playing.
Length: 14:45 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 38
In this lesson, Jane Miller talks about major 6th chords and their relationship with minor 7th chords.
Length: 8:35 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 39
Jane Miller talks about scales & patterns in this lesson. She addresses some popular questions including how to improve the melodic element of your improvisation.
Length: 10:10 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 40
Jane Miller revisits her last lesson and explains how to apply major scales.
Length: 7:24 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 41
Jane Miller continues her lessons about scales & patterns with a discussion on the pentatonic scale.
Length: 14:43 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 42
Jane Miller continues her discussion of the pentatonic scale and its patterns. She talks about how to start applying some of the lines you learned in the previous lesson.
Length: 13:36 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 43
Jane Miller talks about the whole tone scale. This scale consists entirely of whole steps.
Length: 13:41 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 44
Now that you've learned all about the diminished and whole tone scales, Jane Miller discusses the chromatic scale.
Length: 9:21 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 45
Jane Miller continues her discussion of the chromatic scale with a great exercise to help you practice dynamics.
Length: 6:58 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 46
Jane Miller continues her discussion on dynamics in this lesson. She invites you to think about volume as a way to add feeling or catch attention while improvising.
Length: 7:01 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 47
Jane Miller discusses bass lines in this lesson. She begins by explaining how you can get a bass line going by itself first. Then, she explains how to add in chord voicings.
Length: 15:53 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 48
Jane Miller begins a discussion on upper structure triads. In this lesson, Jane refers to the top part of a major 7th chord as well as added tensions.
Length: 12:37 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 49
Jane Miller continues her discussion of upper structure triads.
Length: 15:14 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 50
Jane Miller picks up where she left off in her last lesson and shares a great technique that will provide you with some new comping options.
Length: 4:58 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 51
Jane Miller concludes her discussion of upper structure triads. In this lesson, she helps you turn the E minor triad you have been using into a G major triad.
Length: 9:29 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 52
Jane Miller changes gears and focuses on the E Lydian mode in this lesson.
Length: 13:31 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
About Jane Miller
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Guitarist, composer, arranger, and Berklee Associate Professor, Jane Miller has roots in both Jazz and Folk circuits. In addition to leading her own jazz instrumental quartet, she is in a working Chamber Jazz Trio with saxophonist Cercie Miller and bassist David Clark, for which she contributes many compositions. She has been a frequent guitarist with singer-songwriter SONiA, of disappear fear.
Jane is a contributing writer to Acoustic Guitar Magazine, writing lessons for the popular intermediate column, The Woodshed. She also writes a monthly column for Premiere Guitar Magazine called the Jazz Box . She has contributed several lesson columns for the Mel Bay publishing company’s on-line magazine, Guitar Sessions.
The Jane Miller Group has released three CDs on Jane’s label, Pink Bubble Records; all three received national radio play and press. She has performed solo and in duo and group settings regionally and around the country at clubs, festivals, and concerts as well as live TV and Radio appearances in New England.
Since joining the faculty in 1994 at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Jane has contributed many arrangements for solo guitar to the Guitar Department library, and has performed solo recitals and concerts with her group in the Berklee Performance Center and Recital Halls.
Discography
The Jane Miller Group "The Other Room" (2000)
The Jane Miller Trio "Secret Pockets" with guests Jay Ashby and Bill O'Connell (1998)
The Jane Miller Group "Postcard" with guests Patty Larkin, Mick Goodrick, Mili Bermejo and Ken LaRoche (1993)
SONiA "Me, Too" (1998)
Performances
Regattabar, Scullers, The Berklee Performance Center,The Firehouse, The Iron Horse, Club Passim, The Acton Jazz Cafe, The Hatch Shell, First Nights in Boston, Hartford, and Worcester, NOW Summit in Washington, D.C., Pride Festivals in San Diego, Baltimore, and Worcester, Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival, MD, Capital Region Guitar Show, Saratoga Springs, NY.
TV and Radio
Live appearances throughout New England, including WGBH-FM, WICN-FM. Composed and recorded theme music for "Barbara...and You," for Leominster Cablevision, as well as other jingles and themes. Former Jazz Coordinator for WCUW-FM, Worcester, MA.
Arts Lottery Grant recipient, award given to worthy artists and composers funded by Massachusetts Arts Lottery.
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Discussions with our instructors are just one of the many benefits of becoming a member of JamPlay.Hello Jane and welcome! I enjoyed getting to know you a little in this interview and as a beginner, I have to say I'm really looking forward to your lessons. Thank you (and Jeff for asking) for laying out a little bit about what I should have under my belt to be "ready" for your lessons... I'm one of those people who likes the water "up to my ears" but to have the freedom to head back for the shallow end when necessary... I think I will be doing quite a bit of that as I'm still working on chords and scales in the first position at this point. I think I'm going to love learning from you.
I am very stoked for the lessons to start. I studied briefly with a jazz standards teacher in the mid seventies. Really looking forward to getting some of that back. Nice job Jeff, Jane must really be a good teacher.
I agree with YucatanEd I'm so happy that you've joined Jamplay. We really needed more jazz. Can't wait for the lessons!
Nice Jane thank you looking forward to learning jazz from you
Why thanks guys, haha, I didn't really want to do it but Jane forced me :)
Good to have you on Jane - from someone who also went through the Laura Webber TV programs (and learned some recorder from her too) and loves Jazz and would like to be able to do a something with it ;-)
That flew bye - and I was meant to be working. ;-) Looking forward to the series.
Welcome Jane... and awesome job Jeff!!
Jane welcome!!! great to see some major jazz instruction going on here! awesome!! jeff you did great accompanying jane. nice job!!!
I'm so happy that you've joined Jamplay. We really needed more jazz. Can't wait for the lessons!
What a lovely interview! Nice meeting you Jane, and can't wait to dig into your lessons.
Should be an interesting series!
Welcome Jane! :)