Guitarist Greg Chako shares some advice on how to approach your playing. In music, we spend years developing technique, vocabulary, and style. We practice scales, study...
Guitarist Greg Chako shares a few exercises that have proven very effective with his guitar students. Gene Bertoncini once told me that most guitarists simply play...
Guitarist Greg Chako offers great advice on the need to be both a marketer and musician at the same time. He also provides suggestions for avoiding...
Guitarist and performer Greg Chako provides some advice to help with your promotion. I am a member of multiple Facebook Groups with jazz or guitar as...
Guitarist and JGT contributor Greg Chako provides some great advice and strategies for relationship building. Recently, I’ve often thought that we should be as much salesmen...
Jazz guitarist Greg Chako shares a recent life-threatening story as he embarks on the journey of self-awareness. I went to hear a highly regarded local jazz...
Guitarist Greg Chako explains how subtle shifts in your practice routine can make your playing more musical. …Or The Shed & The Toolbox If you want...
Guitarist Greg Chako discusses Guide Tones – the single most important aspect of playing ‘the changes’ and improving your soloing. Above photo (cropped) courtesy of Mike...
Frank Zappa has been quoted as saying, “Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny.” Well, in my opinion, that can NOT be said for the blues....
Counting is not something you do as a beginner and then forget about when you turn pro . . . it’s something pros do all the time! When I...
Greg Chako shares a true life story while discussing the importance of melody in the context of learning about jazz music. My first dedicated relationship was...
Guitarist Greg Chako provides some advice for composing your own lines, harmonies, exercises, and ultimately, your own songs or albums. The great Lester “The Prez” Young...
Jazz guitarist Greg Chako provides advice for not only being a better player, but a better person too. With regard to being a jazz musician, the...
Guitarist Greg Chako explains how to shift your routine to playing songs and melodies rather than working on technical or intellectual exercises. I hope to teach...
Many jazz students resort to book learning first, as if all they need is to find the right book and then they’ll know what to do, but that’s...
