Think about Pat Martino, Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery... Whether your goal is to play jazz professionally or to pursue it as a hobby, my teaching strategies will help you succeed.

Even the best jazz book will not be able to give you the same results as taking lessons with an experienced and active performer.

Here are some concepts we will work on:

• Improvisation techniques

• Breaking bad practicing habits

• Scales and modes

• Chords and alterations

• Chord melody 

• Playing in a jazz combo

• Arranging a standard

• Getting a good sound on your instrument

• Ear training

• Reharmonizing a tune

• Practicing with a metronome 

• Practicing swing

• Auto evaluating your playing

• Playing along with records

• Transcribing solos 

• Learning jazz standards

• Blues, rhythm changes and other typical jazz progressions

• Playing "outside"

• Odd time signatures 

How to play modern bebop, with in-depth study of traditional and more modern phrasing:

How to creatively reharmonize a standard through chord melody techniques, chord substitutions, and pure taste:

How to come up with a guitar intro and harmonize a melody for a ballad:

Chord Melody Improvisation:

Below, an "out" way of playing a 12 bar form blues.