Real And Imagined, the second CD for New York based Jazz Guitarist Dave Allen, is a tour de force of composition and technical mastery that appears to know no bounds. As a Guitarist, composer and […]
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“In one sense for me it’s been relatively easy to be honest. This isn’t to say that I haven’t worked really hard to make it happen, because I have put an enormous amount of time […]
“So we had to learn to kind of give it up, surrender, do our best and not worry about it. It’s very liberating, but that doesn’t happen by accident, you decide to do that based […]
“I, like many musicians, thought the major labels would come looking for me, wanting to sign me, but that didn’t happen. As I have learned a lot about the industry I realized that had little […]
One of the biggest challenges for the guitarist who is learning to play jazz is the complexity of the fingerboard. Knowing how to play a variety of scales and arpeggios in all keys is necessary […]
There are many approaches to learning jazz guitar and by no means is this meant to be a definitive approach. However, in struggling to learn how to play I found some of the methods below […]
Many guitarists are just now getting into doing solo gigs, partly for economic reasons: there aren’t many gigs these days for jazz groups, but a lot of bars and restaurants are willing to spring for […]
A recent lesson with a student prompted the broad question as to what to practice in terms of building a complete vocabulary for improvising. We listed some of the categories of study that are essentials […]
I recently attended a lecture on listening and came away with a number of perspectives on not only the importance of never to stop nurturing this art in life during personal conversations – but of […]
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