Next tune with staple chords, improv limited to approaches to the third. First steps with hybrid picking.

https://youtu.be/sxDEFJ2zZ8I Hello all, here is a "sign of life" video from me--I'm still back here... practicing away on the Lesson 2 etudes...this is chord progression #1: I-VI-II-V. It's slowed down to some percentage- somewhere between 70-90%. Keepin' it real with no perfection here. :)

I've off the grid for a while but I'm back. My attempt at Shadow of your Smile, hopefully I did it some justice. Feedback welcome .https://youtu.be/PITLdI_-i64

My 'Icebreaker' post on rejoining the Jazz Guitar Academy platform after over a year away. Its also my first modal tune which meant thinking of something to play over 16 bars of Dm7. Little Sunflower is a trippy laid back modal jazz tune by Freddy Hubbard with an AABA form. I tried several approaches to the improvisation and settled on my usual approach of taking off from the melody, with licks based on the D Dorian scale but with each trip around the A section trying to move a little more 'outside' via use of triad pairs. I credit Steve Gregory's version of the tune on Youtube as the source of one or two small components of the improv, but I've tried to build the large majority of it from my own ideas. Got to say it was a challenge, particularly in the timing and balancing precision with the laid back vibe. Feedback welcome. https://youtu.be/BqXCCfchTq0 4CE (Head in, Improv 1, Improv 2, Head out)

I'm continuing to work on There Will Never Be Another You. This is a chord melody from a Kenny Burrell recording that includes a nice intro to the tune. This is normally played as a more upbeat tune for jazz but it has a very pretty melody that comes across nicely as a ballad.