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I saw on another post mention of Matt Warnock Guitar courses.
Can forum members share their experience with this teacher around learning jazz?
I have noticed he has organized his lessons into20 sequential levels starting with the basics and blues and then morphing into more jazz for the rest of the levels starting at level 4 or so.
Has anybody moved through the sequential levels and found that to be an effective way to study jazz? I tend to really like linear sequential learning. I already play guitar but have never explored the jazz area.
I am hoping for comments like in the Frank Vignola thread.
ThanksLast edited by Photonic; 01-18-2022 at 09:34 PM. Reason: change title
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01-17-2022 04:16 PM
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Well I was amazed that no one chimed in here, but despite that I went ahead and activated his 30 day free trial and I must admit I was blown away. He reponds to any questions almost immediately by chat or post responses. There are hundreds of jazz courses listed by category, name, or level if you wish to proceed stepwise. He posts new every day lessons on different topics. It appears you can upload videos of your self doing anything and he will provide feedback with no limit. There is also a Tune of the Month that is broken into sections for mastery. There is an included Spotify listening list that is astoundingly complete. It looks like BIAB files are provided when needed..... and on and on. And there is a community forum similar to ours with all sorts of categories.
The cost is a bit more than say Frank's studio, but the offerings are HUGE and the personal feedback looks exceptional. From my first experiences with his teaching style by watching his videos, he seems quite skilled at teaching as well. It looks like this offering comes awfully close to have a private teacher for $29/mo.
This should be a very interesting experience. I am very excited about it and with 30 days free, what's not to lose!
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Originally Posted by Photonic
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Oh that is really great to know. Thanks for taking the time to mention that!
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Hello Photo. I missed you post. Matt is a great teacher in my opinion. While well versed in his history, technic etc he is an extremely ambitious teacher educator. He offers loads of material and ideas and his site is full of related resources for reference. I believe and hope you will be happy there, I am.
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And for anyone interested, one of Matt's teachers was Lorne Lofsky (If you know who he was.)
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Originally Posted by Doug B
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Originally Posted by doug b
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Originally Posted by pcjazz
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Originally Posted by Doug B
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Originally Posted by Photonic
(Regretfully, I’ve not found a link back to the Home/lessons page from the forum here. But you really ought to look over the material there. It is the It is exceptionally laid out. Click around there, TONS of stuff.)
Have you gone here and learned these chords and the Kenny Burrell vamp in the video on this page below yet? Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom of this page…
https://www.jazzguitar.be/blog/17-es...rds-beginners/
Do that and once you can play that vamp at 3/4 speed without error, check out the other stuff there.
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Jazz Guitar Chord Theory - How To Construct Jazz Chords?Last edited by oceanslider; 01-25-2022 at 12:18 PM.
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I have his 30 Days to Better Jazz Guitar.Knowing my self discipline/personal circumstance i got it going in with a longer time frame.Great Book. A fun book.
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The mwg subscription is just brilliant. Great materials, community and teacher. It’s really exciting to be a part of it.
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I will second the Jazzguitar online stuff. Easy peasy just click on the upper right "Lessons" on the forum. Dirk does a great job with both the free stuff and paid classes.
I have seen some of Matt's lessons also, seem genuine.
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Originally Posted by Ralphy
I did just now find some lesson links hidden at the very bottom of the page.
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Yes on my ipad the lesson stuff is way down the forum front page, where it says ‘JGO Navigation’.
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FYI, One video I found on Jazz Guitar Online's YouTube looks like Matt Warnock? (the video is 8 years old, so there must be a connection between the two?)...
Last edited by oceanslider; 01-25-2022 at 01:26 PM.
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Oceanslider
Back out of this forum and go to Forum Home. You will see the JGO Navigation on the right side, it has several different hyper links under it. Take your pick and enjoy
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Originally Posted by Ralphy
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Originally Posted by Ralphy
Man, that was pretty dumb of me. So much excellent stuff just sitting here for anyone to use.
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^^^
Agree. Too bad there is not a bold link always at the top of the page.. "Click Here for awesome and FREE JGO lessons"
Just checked my Android work phone also at the very bottom of the page.
Wish I had known about them when I first found this forum.
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Originally Posted by oceanslider
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I got some of Matt’s courses from back when he was offering lesson packages. There was a Facebook group too.
The lessons were song based, really well organized, focusing on a few key techniques for solo and comping. They got a jazz beginner like me up and running really quickly. There were challenges and milestones with encouragement to post to the Facebook group.
I would have stuck with it but shortly afterwards, Matt converted the whole site to subscription based, and moved the group. Also the website took on an ubercommercial design that reminded me of those snake oil web sites, which was really unfortunate because his lessons were very good. I started getting spam emails promoting this or that add-on… so finally I unregistered myself and looked elsewhere.
This was about two years ago so the experience may be very different now, I would suggest to try the free 30 days and see if you like it.
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Very professional now with a really good website through "Teachable". Companion forum site that is really good. Very active community. Matt puts up daily lessons around a tune of the month. Participants post videos of progress. Matt responds to virtually every post in minutes. He will also provide coaching on any aspect of any of the lessons. The responsiveness is stunning. Now just an all inclusive monthly or yearly fee after a 30 day free trial.
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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