Richard Mills BA LGSMD Guitarist, Guitar Teacher

Professional guitar lessons in Leeds, tuition for beginners to advanced
Jazz guitar performance

samples of my playing

The short samples take about 10 seconds to download on a normal modem, whilst the asterisked* samples take longer - up to 20 seconds.

Jazz samples
Outside/Inside Jazz*
This is a sample of inside/outside playing, tension/release being a principle adding interest to improvisation.

'ATTY'*
A chord melody on nylon string guitar, inspired by Joe Pass..

'Dance the Dolphin'*
Jazz quartet, on chord changes by Herbie Hancock.

'Fusion Walker'
A fusion piece. The chords are played on guitar-synth.

'Insensitive You'*
Bossa Nova style, on harmony by the great Latin composer, Jobim.

Nylon Acoustic Jazz
Two guitars playing nylon strung guitar.

Nylon Jazz Chord melody
Solo nylon strung guitar.

'The Pennine Song'*
A modern jazz chord/melody inspired by Allan Holdsworth.

'Song for John'

Blues samples

Acoustic 12-bar*

Funky Blues: 'Stratty'

Bert Jansch-type Blues

Rock samples

'Black Doggy'

Jeff Beck style

'Little Winging'*

Rock lick

'Smoke on the Waiter'

'Stairway to Zepp'

Van Halen-style Riff

Pop samples

'Here Comes The Sunshine'

'Pretty acoustic'

Tuition materials
(blues for beginners)

These samples are just a few of the licks that I have specially recorded to give out to my students. I have about 400 blues and rock licks in a few of the main keys (E, A and G) on CD.

Articulation
Bend up, release bend, hammer-on, pull-off, slides, composite.

Blues lick in G

Blues lick 1

Blues lick 2

Blues lick 3

Blues lick triplet feel

E minor pentatonic blues licks

The short samples take about 10 seconds to download on a normal modem, whilst the asterisked* samples take longer - up to 20 seconds.