Noobi here. My studio guitar class at the local college is taught by a jazz guitarist. So this semester has been an eye-opening challenge to keep up with chords and chord progressions, and musical ideas that are unfamiliar to me. The classroom discussion constantly goes back and forth between: what's behind this particular chord progression and what approach would you take to solo over it? The instructor demonstrates both chords and soloing ideas. Then we play. And solo.
And the method our instructor has written, has a concise and extremely useful chord chart, as well as scale practice, and sight reading exercises. Guess I don't quite see the distinction between needing to learn single note improvising and learning the chordal structure harmonies.
I will say positively, that hanging out with an extremely talented instructor and a dozen other students all of whom are more advanced than me, is a great way to learn.
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