Teaching Jazz Guitar

Aside from being a publisher and performer, I am also a jazz guitar teacher. Right from the very first months that I picked up the guitar I was already showing friends and kids down the street how to strum their favorite songs and pick out solos from records. Teaching the guitar is something that I love to do, and I feel very lucky that I have been able to teach students in lessons and workshops all over North America and more recently Brazil.

Teaching jazz guitar to players of any level is not easy. Figuring out where to start with a new student, where to go once a student is getting the basics down, or what to work on with experienced jazz guitarist are things that many of us deal with in our lesson studios and classrooms.

For this reason, and because I just love to teach jazz guitar, aside from the “how to play” and other technical articles and resources on my site, I’ve written a number of articles based on my experiences as a jazz guitar teacher as well. You can find these articles below, I hope you enjoy them.

Jazz Guitar Teaching Articles

• How Being Light On Your Feet Can Make You a Better Jazz Guitar Teacher
• How to Plan a Successful First Jazz Guitar Lesson for a Beginning Player
• Overcoming 3 Common Roadblocks Face by Beginning Jazz Guitar Students
• How Learning Portuguese Made Me a Better Jazz Guitarist