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Martin Taylor has created a comprehensive video library that includes hundreds of fingerstyle guitar lessons, exclusive performances, and interviews. Students have unlimited access to all these online guitar lessons plus guitar tabs, backing tracks, and other study materials.
What ultimately sets these online lessons apart from other offerings however, is the ability to submit a video for personalized feedback using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange® learning platform. Martin Taylor reviews each submission and records a video response, offering tips about how to improve. All students can access Martin’s Video Exchange library, which is expanding all the time and may contain the key to unlock your playing.
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About Martin
Martin Taylor is a Grammy nominated fingerstyle guitarist, solo jazz guitar virtuoso and online guitar teacher. Pat Metheny says Martin Taylor is "one of the most awesome solo guitar players in the history of the instrument" while Jeff Beck thinks Taylor "out-shred’s all of us put together….I’ve never seen anything like it". As one of the world's leading fingerstyle guitarists, Taylor now helps people in over 58 countries become better guitarists of their own.
Martin has collaborated with the biggest names in guitar music including Tommy Emmanuel, Jeff Beck, Chet Atkins, Frank Vignola, Barney Kessell, Earl Klugh, Herb Ellis, Scotty Moore, Julian Lage, Andreas Oberg, Albert Lee, Ulf Wakenius, Tony McManus, Martin Simpson and Laurence Juber. Martin has been awarded two honorary doctorates, a BBC lifetime achievement award, an IAJE Jazz Educators award, Top 10 albums in both the USA and UK, a record 14 British Jazz Awards and in 2002 he was appointed MBE 'For Services to Jazz Music' by the Queen of Great Britain. He has been teaching fingerstyle guitar online with ArtistWorks since 2010.
Reviews for Online Guitar Lessons with Martin Taylor
Martin Taylor Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons
- Introduction To The Martin Taylor Guitar Academy
- Underlying Concepts
- Developing Technique & Musicianship
- Learn By Playing Tunes
- Auxiliary Lessons
- Guided Arrangements
Introduction To The Martin Taylor Guitar Academy
- The Flow: The Psychology of Music and the Guitar Part 2
- Submit a Placement Video
Underlying Concepts
- Adding 7ths Anchored by the Sixth String
- Adding 7ths Anchored by the Fifth String
- Adding 7ths Anchored by the Fourth String
- Finding Transition Points When Playing the 7ths
- Moving the 7ths Anchored by the Sixth String
- Moving the 7ths Anchored by the Fifth String
- Moving the 7ths Anchored by the Fourth String
- Finding Transition Points While Moving the 7ths
- Using 10ths with the Minor Scale
- Harmonizing the Major Scale and Chord Progressions
- Introduction to "Satin Doll"
- Adding a Melody to "Satin Doll"
- Applying All You've Learned to "Satin Doll"
- Play a Simple Version of "Satin Doll"
- Additional Concepts Found in "Satin Doll"
- Play Another Version of "Satin Doll"
- Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
- Submit a Placement Video
Developing Technique & Musicianship
- Learning To Play "True"
- Learning To Play "True": Performance Of A Simplifed Version
- Right Hand Technique In Depth
- Using Thumb Upstrokes
- Martin's Nail Salon
- Using A Pick
- Left Hand Expressive Technique
- Advanced Expressive Techniques
- Using Harmonics
- Incorporating Single String Playing
- Walking Bass Lines with Comping
- Comping for Other Musicians
- Phrasing
- Phrasing Applied to Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Jazz Blues Part 1
- Jazz Blues Part 2
- Jazz Blues Part 3
- Jazz Blues Part 4: Summary
- Improvisation Part 1: Using Both Hands
- Improvisation Part 2: Listening
- Improvisation Part 3: Youre On!
- Improvisation Part 4: Flow Of Ideas
- Improvisation Part 5: Opening Your Mind
- Improvisation Part 6: Example "My Romance"
- Improvisation Part 7: Melodic Improvisation
- Improvisation Part 8: More Melodic Improvisation
- Improvisation Part 9: Melodic Improvisation Single String Introduction
- Improvisation Part 10: Melodic Improvisation Single String 2-5-1
- Improvisation Part 11: Melodic Improvisation Single String 2-5-1 Examples Part 1
- Improvisation Part 11: Melodic Improvisation Single String 2-5-1 Examples Part 2
- Improvisation Part 12: Melodic Improvisation Single String 3-6-2-5 Part 1
- Improvisation Part 12: Melodic Improvisation Single String 3-6-2-5 Part 2
- Using Parallel Fourths
- My Funny Valentine - Performance
- My Funny Valentine - Bossa Feel Part 1
- My Funny Valentine - Bossa Feel Part 2
- The Fair Haired Child - Performance
- The Fair Haired Child - Breakdown
- The Fair Haired Child - Chords
- The Fair Haired Child - Melody and Root
- The Fair Haired Child - Adding Harmony
- Practice Tips - NEW!
- Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
Learn By Playing Tunes
- Satin Doll Version 1
- Satin Doll Version 2
- True Version 1
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Sweet Lorraine
- If I Only Had You
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Please
- Martin's Blues
- I Fall in Love Too Easily
- Chez Fernand
- Georgia on My Mind
- True Version 2
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- Don't Know Why
- Like Someone in Love
- I'm Old Fashioned
- Norm
- English Garden
- I've Got Rhythm Tune
- My Romance
- My Romance: Version 2
- The Fair Haired Child
- Summertime
- Take Five
- Down At Cocomo's - NEW!
- One Day - NEW!
- Wild Mountain Thyme - NEW!
- Just Once - NEW!
- Amazing Grace - NEW!
- They Can't Take That Away From Me - NEW!
- Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Question and Answers
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Miscellaneous Exercises
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Improvisation
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Stella by Starlight
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Bossa Nova Tunes
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Fly Me to The Moon
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Autumn Leaves
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Nearness of You
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Misty
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Holiday Tunes
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: The Girl from Ipanema
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Bluesette
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Untrue
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Nuages
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Black Orpheus
- Submit a Placement Video
Auxiliary Lessons
- Accompanying a Singer:
- - True: Performance with Alison Burns
- - True: Discussion with Alison Burns Part 1
- - True: Discussion with Alison Burns Part 2
- - Kissing Bug: Performance with Alison Burns
- - Kissing Bug: Discussion with Alison Burns
- - “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” with Alison Burns -NEW!
- Equipment:
Guided Arrangements
- Misty
- Misty - Simple Barre Chord Version -NEW!
- Smile
- Honeysuckle Rose
- A Certain Smile
- All The Things You Are
- Here's That Rainy Day
- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
- Two For The Road
- Some Day My Prince Will Come
- Lulu's Back In Town
- Autumn Leaves - NEW!
- Skylark - NEW!
- They Can't Take That Away From Me (Guided Arrangement) - NEW!
- Submit a Placement Video
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