PRACTICE · LEARN · PLAY
Interactive exercises, step-by-step lessons, and live coaching to build real improvisation skills — all in one place, built around real jazz standards.
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THE PROBLEM
You know scales and arpeggios. You’ve watched the YouTube videos. But when you sit down to solo over Autumn Leaves or a minor blues, the gap between what you know and what you can actually play feels enormous. The issue isn’t talent — it’s not having a system that connects the theory in your head to the fretboard under your fingers.
WHAT YOU GET
Your membership unlocks a complete practice ecosystem — exercises, lessons, tools, coaching, and community.
Targeted drills for Cm7, dominant 7ths, minor 7b5 — build vocabulary one chord quality at a time with interactive Soundslice notation.
Written-out solos over Autumn Leaves, Stella by Starlight, Blue Bossa, and more. See how guide tones and voice leading work across a full form.
Drop 2 and Drop 3 voicings, extensions, and chord-specific shapes for ii-V-I progressions — because hearing the harmony transforms your lines.
Map arpeggios, scales, and chord tones across the entire neck. Select any chord quality, see every option, connect practice to the fretboard.
Tuesdays: live deep-dive coaching with Jim. Thursdays: open office hours — bring questions, get feedback, go deeper on what you’re working on.
Play along with tracks for Nica’s Dream, So What, Georgia, Red Clay, Cissy Strut, and more — with new tracks added regularly.
Full breakdowns of tunes from Have You Met Miss Jones to 500 Miles High — how the harmony works, where the opportunities are, how to practice each one.
Guide tone charts, voicing shape references, Drop 2 and Drop 3 inversion maps, and lesson-specific printouts — built right into the lesson pages.
Record yourself and get personal feedback from Jim. This is how you close the gap between practicing alone and performing with confidence.
HOW IT WORKS
This isn’t a library you browse and forget. It’s a system that builds on itself week after week.
Monday
Work through a guide tone exercise for a specific chord quality. Slow, focused, with interactive notation and the embedded PDF right on the page.
Tuesday
Join the live coaching session. Bring what you practiced. Ask what you’re stuck on. Get real-time answers from Jim.
Wednesday
Learn 8 bars of an etude. Listen to how the written solo moves through the changes and connect it to what you practiced Monday.
Thursday
Drop into the office-hours workshop. Get feedback on your comping shapes, ask questions, go deeper on the week’s material.
Friday
Put on a backing track. Solo over the tune. Record yourself. Submit it for feedback. Close the loop.
FAQ
Fretprints is built for intermediate to advancing jazz guitarists — players who know basic theory and chords but want a structured system to actually apply it on the fretboard over real tunes.
Over 50 video episodes on jazz standards, dozens of guide tone exercises, etudes for major tunes, an interactive fretboard app, backing tracks, PDF references, and new content added every week.
Tuesdays are deep-dive coaching sessions where Jim walks through concepts, answers questions, and gives live demonstrations. Thursdays are open office hours — bring whatever you’re working on, get direct feedback, and go deeper.
Yes. Both monthly and yearly plans can be cancelled at any time from your account page. Your access continues until the end of your billing period. No contracts, no cancellation fees.
Start with the free 2-week trial. Explore everything — exercises, etudes, live sessions, the fretboard app. If it’s not the right fit, simply cancel before the trial ends and you won’t be charged.
Start with a free 2-week trial. No commitment. Cancel anytime.