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I am curious at to what on line people others follow and support on a regular basis from an instruction resource point of view. Anyone you follow for instruction and support on a regular basis? Although I have purchased material primarily from True Fire, I have not followed people on a regular basis. I almost get the impression one almost has to get the instructional material and have some familiarity with the tune or subject before the video or live session.
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09-26-2025 09:52 AM
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Hey there, I will send you a DM with details about my workshops and lessons.
Originally Posted by DanielleOM
Workshops
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For beginner to intermediate players, I highly recommend Jens Larsen's YouTube channel and patreon.
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There’s great teachers here. One of them has already replied to you. I got a lot from online lessons with Del. Peter has half a book in PDFs posted here. Christian had a prolific YouTube channel. Jack Zucker was doing advanced soloing concept shorts for a while.
If you need a place to start, I always recommend this.
Last edited by AllanAllen; 10-01-2025 at 05:20 PM.
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Love me some Jimmy Bruno!
- He's absolutely acknowledged as one of the greats of jazz guitar. Don't just watch his videos, listen to the many albums he has done. Beautiful music combined with scary good technical skills. Lots of pro-level knowledge and playing in his many free videos.
- Also, JB's curmudgeonly opinions of the music biz with sailor-level cussing sprinkled in is as entertaining as it gets.
- Bonus: learning to pick while holding a cigarette is an absolutely essential skill if you want real street cred.
I won't derail this thread by posting more JB vids. There are a ton of them and I think there are at least two threads on JGO devoted exclusively to him.
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Regular lessons, what's that?
Self taught, so all mine were
irregular lessons, I guess.
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I tend to work on tunes.
If there is a particular song I am trying to learn and Barry Greene has a video on that song I will get it. Barry Greene hammers the same points over and over and I need that. He is a “teach you to fish” type of instructor. Barry’s tone and playing are inspirational. You can buy individual lessons (which is what I do) or get a subscription to everything. His chord melody lessons and how he builds an arrangement are fantastic.
I also like Mimi Fox’s True Fire courses….also a pragmatic instructor.
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I was a student at JBGI (Jimmy Bruno's on-line institute) and found it helpful. There was a lot of content.
It is my impression that a lot of pros teach on-line and, if I knew who I wanted to study with, I'd take a look for a website.
I've gotten a lot from watching the youtube videos of our forum's very own Reg. reg523 on youtube iirc. In fact, his videos showing him comping on standards are probably my favorite on line information sources. The comping is very high level and completely clear -- you can see his left hand and hear the chords.
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Originally Posted by pauln
Regular lessons, what's that?
Self taught, so all mine were
irregular lessons, I guess.
"Regular" from a posting or presentation frequency perspective.Last edited by DanielleOM; 09-28-2025 at 07:06 AM.
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Don't know where the OP lives, and I know there's a lot of good "content" online, but if you want high-quality lessons "online," I would contact Pete Sklaroff (a member here)! Excellent teacher, personalized approach, expects a lot from you (in a good way!), and you will learn tons in an organized manner! [He's in the UK and I'm in the western States, and we made the schedule work pretty easily!]
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Troy Grady's Cracking the Code site is a great learning resource for picking technique. Be forewarned that it leans heavily towards shred metal, but there are great players in other styles featured as well.
He invented this device (called The Magnet ) that mounts a phone to the neck of the guitar to enable capturing close-up (and slowed-down) video of picking technique. And he has used the magnet to capture video of the right-hand technique of many virtuoso players. There's a lot of analysis of this video that is really interesting, and he's even consulted with orthopedists about how anatomy affects picking. Great stuff.
Troy has posted a LOT of free stuff to YouTube as well, so you can get a very good idea of what's available without subscribing. I did subscribe for about four months; well worth it.
Another cool takeaway: these videos of the differing approaches that great players use are object proof that there are LOTS of ways to pick that work very well. There's no "one right way."
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It might be a whole book by now. Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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Question for the teachers here…are majority of your lessons still in person or online?
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I had lessons in 1966/67/68 ploughing through The Nick Lucas Plectrum Guitar Method Vol.1.
The rest has been playing with others.
I do watch Christian, Jens and Jimmy amongst others.
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On re-reading I see now you're also asking about online regular lessons, which I missed earlier. I highly recommend them. When I started in jazz, I messed around for a few months trying to take on board various bits of youtube knowledge and not really getting anywhere. I took Jens's online Jazz Guitar Roadmap, which helped enormously. It's a set of 10 lessons, aimed at beginners in jazz, and with each lesson submission you receive feedback from Jens and your peers in the group. After that, I realised how important regular lessons were for me, and I wound up taking weekly lessons with our very own Christian for four years. I learnt a great deal from him, and am pretty sure I wouldn't have made anything like the progress I have done without regular tuition and feedback.
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Online guitar lessons are amazing things. You can find the exact teacher you are looking for. Good luck before this. I have a great jazz teacher I'll go back to when my focus shifts back to improv (Peter mentioned above, he deserves a plug), and I recently contacted a teacher in another country who specializes in a very niche set of skills.
In most places in the world you'd be lucky if there was a single professional jazz or classical teacher within driving distance.
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online Originally Posted by spencer096
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Hope this is on topic enough not to be a hijack… Originally Posted by pamosmusic
What’s been your biggest challenges w online over in person? I’ve only taught in person but will have to make a change online soon for a student and am struggling how to adapt…so much of our lessons have been based around playing together.
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I conduct lessons on line and in person. Originally Posted by spencer096
My workshops are online because participants come from all over the world.
One of the aspects of online teaching that I really like is the sending students/participants videos of the lessons that they can refer back to.
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Teaching online does not allow you to play together adequately. I will sometimes send my students videos of myself playing and leaving room for them to play. Originally Posted by spencer096
They then send me a video of them playing along with the video.
It’s live-ish
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Me too. Originally Posted by Doublea A
On a more specific note about the playing together … Im quite comfortable accompanying a student because my time is good enough to keep going even with the latency. But having them comp for me is next to impossible. That is the big limitation.
lots of beginners (and not beginners) are working on playing riff rhythms and stuff rather than interactive comping so I don’t really need to be playing to hear that. Still that’s the drawback I haven’t been able to get around.
And I make tonnnnnssss of materials for students. That’s always been a strength of mine which helps. But the learning curve there can still be steep. At this point I have PDFs for almost everything, but that took a lot of time and work.
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I agree. Preparing materials ahead of time is very useful Originally Posted by pamosmusic
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This advice from Jens Larsen could help many beginners.
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Is it though? For beginners? Originally Posted by Litterick
I’m five years in focusing exclusively on jazz and I feel like I’m at a point where I can keep up with his videos.
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I am not a regular viewer of his videos. This one seemed straightforward to me. Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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