Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar
with Martin Taylor
Martin Taylor shares his expertise in hundreds of fingerstyle guitar lessons including several original tunes. Students in the finger style guitar course have unlimited access to valuable video lessons including guitar fingerpicking lessons and guitar tabs.
Melodic approach to jazz guitar Jazz standard lessons
Tips for accompanying singers Musician interviews
What You'll Learn
What ultimately sets these fingerstyle guitar lessons online apart from other offerings is the ability to submit a video for review using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange Learning® platform. Martin reviews each submission and records a video response, offering specific guidance to take your jazz guitar playing to the next level. All students can access the Video Exchange library and watch each other’s interactions with Martin. This library is constantly expanding and may contain the key to unlock your playing.
Top Quality Guitar Lessons
- 100s of guitar lessons at your own pace
- All levels and styles of playing welcome
- Slow Motion & Looping on videos
About Martin Taylor
Martin Taylor is a Grammy® nominated fingerstyle guitarist, solo jazz guitar virtuoso and online guitar teacher. 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, and Laurence Juber. Martin has been awarded two honorary doctorates, a BBC lifetime achievement award, an IAJE Jazz Educators award, 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.
Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons
– Martin's Coffee Breaks
- All The Things You Are
- "Please" Eddie Lang -- Vintage Gibson L4
- W G Barker Guitar
- Jazz Blues Substitutions
- Effective Practicing
- Girl Talk - Part One
- Girl Talk - Part Two
- Pick to Fingerstyle Transition
- The Art of Comping
- Thoughts on TAB and Notation
- Recording - Red Light Syndrome
- Anticipation and Hesitation
- Warming Up
- Reharmonisation
- Counter Lines
- Inversions & Chord Extensions
- Intros and Outros
- Edginess
- Slurred Scales
- Unconscious Competence
- Guitar Setup
- Seven Steps
- 3 Ingredients
- Down at Cocomo's -NEW!
+ Guitar Conversations
+ Performances & More
+ Tips & Techniques
+ Artistworks Jazz Allstars - Live at the Blue Note in Napa -NEW!
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What's In This Plan
- Unlimited Access to Lessons
- Unlimited Access to Video Exchange Library
- 1 Video Submission to Teacher
- Music Theory Workshop
- Acoustic Guitar 101