Next-Level Jazz Guitar (and related styles) — Bath & Online
These lessons suit players who already have some foundation — you can get around the fretboard and you know a few chord types — but feel like you’ve hit a ceiling. The goal is to give you the tools, vocabulary and context to play with real confidence, regardless of the situation.
Sessions are built around what you can practice in 30-minute chunks – and customised to your own goals.
This is for you if….
• You play guitar (any background) and want to understand harmony and improvisation in greater depth
• You’ve tried learning from YouTube but feel like the ‘dots’ don’t completely connect
• You want to play in bands, jam sessions, recordings and need real vocabulary and confidence
• You’re a working musician wanting to expand into more styles
• You’ve tried learning from YouTube but feel like the ‘dots’ don’t completely connect
• You want to play in bands, jam sessions, recordings and need real vocabulary and confidence
• You’re a working musician wanting to expand into more styles
What we cover
- Harmony — chords and structures, extensions, substitutions, chord melody
- Improvisation and building lines over changes
- Groove and time feel across styles (swing, funk, afrobeat, samba, blues and more)
- Transcription and learning from iconic artists – not just guitar players
- Repertoire — songs, standards, modern jazz, fusion, songwriter
- How to arrange a tune in an original manner
- Theory in context — never in the abstract, always applied to the instrument
- Understanding, writing and reading charts
- Developing your own musical voice
Running through ‘Introspection’ (Thelonious Monk) with the original rhythm section including Art Blakey on drums!
Transcribing and practicing ‘Timelessness’ by the late great piano player Bheki Mseleku
Ready to start making progress? Email or call for a chat about what you’re working towards.