Vic Juris-“Mel Bay presents Modern Chords: Advanced Harmony for Guitar”

5 Jan 20205 Jan 2020

Here's another recommendation: Vic Juris-"Mel Bay presents Modern Chords: Advanced Harmony for Guitar" One of the world's great jazz guitarists, Vic Juris shares his insight into the wonderful world of…

Vic Juris: “All That Jazz” DVD

4 Jan 20204 Jan 2020

Guitar World Magazine put out an excellent Vic Juris instructional DVD about 9 years ago that covered the following concepts: Chapter 1: Best of Both Worlds: Improvising with the Lydian-dominant…

Vic Juris “Songbook #2”

3 Jan 20203 Jan 2020

Today I am sharing my favorite Vic Juris album, "Songbook #2." To my ears-and I have contended this for many years-this is the greatest pure jazz guitar album of the…

Vic Juris, September 26, 1953 – December 30, 2019

2 Jan 20203 Jan 2020

Vic Juris Tribute Week I was so sad to hear of the passing of Vic Juris this morning. My thoughts are with his wife Kate, as well as his extended family. Vic…

Triad Pairs-“5 Minutes or Less” #1

11 Aug 201911 Aug 2019

Today, I am introducing a new weekly series entitled, "Triad Pairs-5 Minutes or Less." Here, I will teach you one concept every week in less than 5 minutes that will…

Lesson #25: Artificial Harmonics with Pick Grip

4 Nov 2013

Question and Answer #2: Triad Pairs Questions

4 Nov 20134 Nov 2013

In Question and Answer #2, I answer the following questions: 1) When is your book going to be complete? I think you said end of 2013. 2) Is Gary Campbell's…

Lesson #23: Applying Modal Voicings to Standard Harmony

9 Jun 201317 Aug 2013

The PDF for this lesson is here: Lesson #23

Lesson #21: Jazz Concepts in Rock Playing-The Bebop Scale

29 Oct 2012

Click the link for the PDF file of this lesson: Lesson #21

Lesson #20: Pat Metheny’s Augmented Side-Slip

1 Oct 2012

  The PDF for this lesson can be found by clicking here.