Beginner's Guide to Jazz Guitar

This course is designed for guitarists looking to play authentic jazz guitar and who haven’t had success in the past or are starting from scratch.

It’s for guitarist’s who:

• Want to learn jazz guitar but it seems impossible.
• Have tried other courses and weren’t happy with your progress.
• Are stuck in a rut with your jazz guitar studies.
• Want to explore a new musical genre in your playing.
• Want to play and not be overwhelmed with theory.
• Are ready to learn jazz guitar and have fun at the same time!

I’ve been playing and teaching jazz guitar for over 25 years and have watched thousands of my beginner students successfully learn to play jazz guitar.

I want to share with you everything I’ve learned about how to best learn jazz guitar as a beginner with authenticity and confidence.

Back in the day, when I was just a young sprout, I heard an album that changed the course of my entire life, the album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis.

I had already been improvising in a rock and blues context, but when I heard Miles and the gang playing, I thought, “that is exactly what I want to sound like!”

Problem was I had no idea how these great players created all those hip lines and cool piano chords I was hearing on the record.

So, I decided to dedicate every spare minute to learning how to play jazz guitar.

I was obsessed, I learned from every book and magazine I could get my hands on, I recorded jazz off of the radio to listen to and transcribe, I took private lessons.

I went all in.

And, while I did learn a lot about how to play jazz guitar, I wasted a lot of time in the practice room along the way.

I spent months exploring techniques and concepts, only to find they weren’t that helpful for me, or even worse, I discovered a short cut after putting all that time in.

In the end I was able to sort through tons of material, keep the good stuff, leave the rest, and develop an approach to learning jazz guitar that worked, 100%.

I then made it my life’s goal to work with as many other guitarists as I possibly could so that they too could benefit from those golden nuggets I discovered in my own studies.

I’ve taught this material to thousands of private students and everyone has been able to learn how to play jazz guitar to their best potential.

From the rock guitar virtuosos who wanted to expand their playing, to classical guitarists wanted to improvise, and everyone in between, these exercises allowed them to play jazz guitar.

Even the people who came to me, having tried to learn jazz before and felt that jazz was “impossible to learn,” even those people learned to play jazz guitar.

Now, we all can’t be Wes Montgomery. There’s a lot of DNA, early exposure, and lifelong dedication that goes into becoming a professional jazz guitarist.

But.

You can all become the best jazz guitarist you can be and enjoy every minute in the practice room.

And that’s all we can ask for as guitarists.

The first steps in your journey to playing jazz guitar are in this course, come get started.