Larry Coryell's Jazz Guitar three part DVD series presents an intense and challenging study of jazz guitar ideas. In this first volume the following subjects are discussed:

- Major scales and playing these in different positions and variations
- Minor, Diminished, Whole Tone-Augmented scales
- Chromatic scales
- Accents within picking patterns
- Arpeggios
- Modes and Intervals
- Building an intellectual understanding between scales and chords
- Movements between harmony and bass lines
- Going beyond diatonic chord/scale usage
- Single-note line improvising over changes
- Substitute chords and soloing