Jazz Guitar with Dave Stryker

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4.7/5 from 17 reviews

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1. Submit Your Video - Record and upload directly through our platform. No technical skills required.
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Record and upload directly through our platform. No technical skills required.

2. Get Expert Feedback - Receive personal video responses from Dave Stryker with tips to improve!
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3. Learn from Community - Browse exchanges from other students to learn from their questions.
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Course Structure Jazz Guitar with Dave Stryker

Each lesson builds on the last, taking you from zero to hero!

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Master electric jazz guitar with Dave Stryker. Over 140 lessons covering beginner to advanced techniques, harmony, chord voicings, comping and improvisation methods.

4 sections within this school

Basic Jazz Guitar

Build core jazz skills with comping, phrasing, chord shapes, and timeless standards. Explore jazz chords, phrasing, and soloing through classic progressions and melodies. Learn jazz fundamentals: 2-5-1s, comping, and improvising over well-known standards.

57 lessons

Intermediate Jazz Guitar

Expand your jazz phrasing with new vocabulary, explore modes, and comping approaches on standards. Build fluency in jazz with phrasing, standards, modal improvisation, and technique drills. Learn to comp, improvise, and warm up effectively using Hanon drills and jazz modes.

42 lessons

Advanced Jazz Guitar

Explore advanced jazz phrasing, chord melodies, useful chord substitutions and connecting longer lines. Learn to navigate tunes like “Giant Steps” with confident comping, melody, and improv. Build fluency with rich harmony, 2-5-1 phrasing, and expressive solo techniques.

21 lessons

Bonus Lessons

Explore jazz standards, minor blues, and chord melody with walking bass and guide tones. Learn minor blues forms, walking bass comping, and expressive chord melody phrasing. Build jazz fluency through classic tunes, minor scales, and guide-tone-based comping.

14 lessons

About Jazz Guitar with Dave Stryker

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Dave Stryker has created a definitive video library that includes hundreds of jazz guitar lessons. Students have unlimited access to Dave Stryker’s entire jazz guitar method, plus guitar tablature, play-along tracks, and other study materials. What ultimately sets these guitar lessons apart from other online offerings however, is the ability to submit a video for review using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange learning platform. Dave Stryker reviews each submission and records a video response, offering tips about how to progress. All students can access the Video Exchange library, which is constantly expanding and may contain the key to unlock your playing.

About Dave Stryker

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Dave Stryker’s success as a guitarist is unprecedented, with Village Voice hailing him “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years”. During his decades-long career, he's released 35 CDs with his own group, and has played with many of the greats of Jazz. Five of his recent CDs have reached #1 on the Jazz Charts and stayed on the charts for 25 weeks. Dave has had the opportunity to accompany Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, Kevin Mahogany and other household names. He’s been the well-deserved recipient of multiple Down Beat Magazine’s readers’ and critics’ polls. Dave is the Jazz Guitar chair at Rutgers University, Montclair State University and William Paterson University. Dave Stryker began teaching Jazz Guitar at ArtistWorks in 2018.

What students are saying!

4.7
17 reviews
October 12, 2023
Strong course for in depth Jazz playing

I've been playing professionally for 20 years and standard Jazz is something I still practice, explore and try to improve on every day. Teaching Jazz is not easy and many great Jaz...

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David H.
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January 7, 2025
This is the best jazz

This is the best jazz teaching material I have ever learned. It can help you find a way into the vast and endless jazz music. Just like learning a language, it helps you learn it i...

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chen p.
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May 23, 2023
Game Changing Course for Jazz Guitar

As a blues player, I always wanted to play jazz guitar. For many years, off and on, I learned about scales and arpeggios, transcribed some solos, and hoped it would magically come ...

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Dave P.
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May 26, 2023
Jazz Guitar

I've taken 4 courses now from ArtistWorks and this one may be the best yet. Dave has made jazz comprehensible and fun with a down to earth approach that is easy to understand. He a...

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Les335
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January 9, 2025
Great System

I love this system for jazz guitar because it gets you playing over changes quickly. Then you can incorporate your own ideas. Plus…you get to listen to this amazing guitarist showi...

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John s.
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January 26, 2024
Jazz pro

Dave is a great teacher! I like the material. I’m a little shy to submit videos but when I do it is always worth it. I get a lot out of his replies to other videos as well.

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Brian Z.
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December 19, 2023
Very satisfied with the course

Very satisfied with the course so far

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victor v.
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August 26, 2025
Great deal with a great player

The subscription includes unlimited submissions which are each personally reviewed, with a personal video critique response. It’s an incredible deal and opportunity to study with D...

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Kenneth M.
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April 18, 2025
Guitar lessons with Dave

I am so grateful to have found this course. I couldn't have asked for anything better. Dave is an excellent teacher and explains things clearly.

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Noi
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October 30, 2024
Great content, and I like

Great content, and I like his laid-back style of teaching. Excellent information! This course is helping me to fill in some gaps in my playing and guitar knowledge. Thank you!

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Mark M.
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