Hector Manuel Quintana, Artist of the Week
Hector came to our attention via one of our JGT contributors – thanks John Stowell! Enjoy Artist of the Week,
Mark Stefani’s Step #4 of ‘Seven Steps to Changes Heaven’ Focuses on Reviewing Your Language Vocabulary As your blues and jazz language vocabulary grows due to...
Jazz Guitar Today welcomes a viewpoint of ‘What is Jazz?’ from guitarist and music industry veteran, Mark Altekruse. Now that I am retired from the corporate...
Mark Stefani’s Step #3 Recommends Transcribing Daily to Acquire Core Language Given all of the above, it should come as no surprise to you that I...
Mark Stefani Stresses the Importance of the II-V Progression in Step #2 of the ‘Seven Steps to Changes Heaven’ It has been stated on many an occasion...
Jazz Guitar Today continues the series of articles featuring ‘Flattops in Jazz’. Mark Althans of Collings Guitars discusses the beginnings of the Julian Lage Signature model. Collings...
JGT Contributor Chuck Anderson offers his views on talent and how to make the best of it! In Lesson #1, Chuck explores anxiety and frustration, as...
JGT Contributor Mark Stefani presents his ‘Seven Steps to Changes Heaven’. In this first step of the series, Mark embraces Blues as the Foundation of Jazz....
Chuck Anderson addresses one of the most common complaints jazz guitar players have about their playing…Why do their solos sound the “same”? This “sameness” can be...
In Part 2, JGT contributor Bill Farrish provides another valuable lesson on diminished scales. More to come from Bill Farrish…
Intervals are the distances between notes. There are 2 types: Diatonic inside the major scale and Chromatic outside the major scale. Diatonic Intervals Notes from a...
JGT contributor Bill Farrish provides a valuable lesson on diminished scales. More to come on Diminished Scales…
We live in ever-changing times. Times are always changing because society wants to evolve. Now, more than ever, we are seeing things change at light speed. ...
So what are Jazz Chords? First, let’s start with what they are not… Jazz chords are not open chords, barre chords or power chords. The characteristics...
Chuck Anderson provides career tips for guitarists. So, can you make a living with the guitar? Well, after 55 years of working exclusively in the guitar...
Session guitar players are always in demand. So, what are the qualifications for this work? There is a surprisingly wide variety needed in the session world. ...