In this feature we welcome jazz guitar master Marcio Philomena. Marcio is a highly-regarded jazz guitarist and has recorded some wonderful tracks.
In the video Marcio demonstrates all of the six licks with a backing and the same G7-C chord backing is used. The eighth notes in the licks are played with a swing feel and to keep things straigtforward we have used a 4/4 time signature to keep the notation and tab as simple to use as possible. So just play all the notes in the examples with a swing feel and you are good to go.
In his licks Marcio demonstrates the use of several tried and tested ways to introduce tension into a V-I (G7-C) cadence. The first concept is to use G Altered scale over the G7 chord. G Altered scale is the seventh mode of Ab
