Gypsy Jazz Guitar Solo Transcription: Django Reinhardt’s “Swing Gitan” as played by Leigh Jackson A few years back, a fellow musician needing money was selling some guitars, so I bought his Gitane John Jorgenson model. Gitane guitars are styled after the Selmer Macca

Bach Violin Partita in Bm Transcribed for Pick-Style Guitar In 1980 I was finishing my degree at Berklee College of Music when my teacher Jon Damian introduced me to a book called “Six Partitas and Sonatas for Solo Violin” by Johann Sebastian Bach. While originally written

About This Joe Pass Transcription: Ever since starting to play jazz guitar about 40 years ago, I’ve been a fan of Joe Pass, particularly his solo playing. Back in the 70s I had several of his solo and duet books and enjoyed learning and practicing from them. Especially impressiv

Auld Lang Syne Chord Solo I recorded and posted this Auld Lang Syne chord solo to Youtube a year ago.  There were lots of requests for a transcription and I meant to post one, but with launching the new website and everything else that was going on, this little project fell through th

Ted Dunbar’s Bebop Tune List In 1990 while working on my Masters Degree, I had the very good fortune to study with the great guitarist and teacher Ted Dunbar.  It was then that I first encountered Ted Dunbar’s Bebop Tune List (which most of us simply referred to as “

White Christmas Jazz Guitar Chord Solo Transcription As promised and hot off the press, here’s the White Christmas Jazz Guitar Chord Solo Transcription which one of our readers Jim Martin so kindly sent to me today. I’ve entered it using Guitar Pro 6 and uploaded to Sounds

White Christmas Jazz Guitar Chord Solo Well, here in New York we’re having anything but a “white” Christmas this year (70 degrees out and raining today!). Athough since legend has it that Irving Berlin wrote “White Christmas” in 1940 while staying at the

Pat Martino Solo Jazz Guitar Transcription Pat Martino is a legend of jazz guitar and one of the most influential musicians of the last century.  As a young prodigy, he was highly influenced by the music of Wes Montgomery but soon forged his own distinctive style.  His career took a m

  The Importance of Listening Any jazz guitarist will tell you that you can’t really learn to play this music from a book.  Most of us have spent thousands of hours listening to great players, attending performances, learning tunes and even transcribing and memorizing whole

Jazz Guitar Improvisation Series Perpetual Forward Motion Scales: Here’s something that I enjoy practicing. In this video example, I’m playing the notes of a descending scale “C,B,A,G,F,E,D,C” but incorporating octave displacement so that instead of the line al