Over 1,000 Jazz Guitarists Sign Up For Free Online Guitar Lessons

Online lessons are changing the way people learn music, including how to play jazz guitar. Martin Taylor, the world's most popular online solo jazz guitar teacher, is joining in that disruption by offering a free jazz guitar course. Over 1,000 guitarists signed up to this free course within the first three days. Though Martin Taylor's course is introductory, it offers guitarists a chance to check out some of the online lessons from his online guitar school that covers concepts including:

Jazz Guitar Chords using the Jazz Guitar Scaffolding System
Jazz Improvisation
Jazz Guitar Scales
Jazz Progressions
Guitar Voicings & Phrasing with guest Julian Lage
Walking bass lines with comping
Learn by playing tunes

Creating your own jazz guitar arrangements using 'guided arrangements' This latest course from Dr Martin Taylor M.B.E. (yes, he's also been cited by the Queen herself for contributions to jazz music) finds itself in the thick of a growing trend of brick and mortar schools offering free online courses. Recently Berklee College of Music, Harvard, Stanford and Princeton have all started or announced plans to offer free online classes. Since 1985, college tuition rates and fees to study courses such as music have increased by an incredible 559% according to the New York Times.
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