This program was made for non-beginner jazz guitarists. Whether you consider yourself a passionate hobbyist, an amateur, or a professional working musician... you're going to find what you're looking for.

Inside we have gigging musicians, college music professors, private guitar instructors, and hobbyists with day jobs.

We also have non guitar playing jazz musicians. Bass players, piano players, horn players... they're working on these ideas too as we're ultimately working on our ears, the anatomy of melody, and flowing harmony... so they can work on any instrument. However, I can't help with instrument specific issues and questions outside of guitar, and some of the PDF materials may contain guitar specific notation... so you'll have to commit to translating our ideas onto your instrument. But it can be done if you're passionate enough.

If you have not been working on playing jazz for at least three years, you should hold off on joining our program. I recommend you go study with some cats that can teach you the basics - scales, arpeggios, the names of the notes on the fretboard, basic chord scale theory. Just don't get stuck there forever. Once you know your theory 101 and basic scale and arpeggio positions... come back and join us... and we'll help you turn what you intellectually learned into music!

If you're not yet sure if this is for you... I recommend you sign up. Once you register you'll be able to book a 1-on-1 private battle plan call with me to help you get onboarded. We can talk face to face then. If we realize this program isn't for you, I'll let you know and will send you your money back. No need to pay for something that isn't right for you.

Yes. I organized the concepts and curriculum, filmed and edited the videos, and created the PDFs for each and every lesson.

After years of teaching one on one private lessons to college kids in person through the New York University and Fordham University jazz guitar studies program here in NYC, I decided I wanted to reach a wider audience, help more musicians, and share these ideas with people that simply can't mortgage a kidney and move to New York to study music with the legends for a few years.

Total one man shop. 
Much coffee was (and is) involved.

Technically? Yes.
But no. Don't join. No yet.

Before starting this online program I did have a lot of success teaching these skills and ideas to total jazz guitar beginners. They picked it up quickly. 

But learning online vs in person is a different experience. So if you are still a complete jazz guitar beginner... I strongly encourage you NOT to join us. Not yet. Go and read a theory book or two, watch a bunch of "how to" YouTube videos, take a few online courses, take private lessons with someone local whose playing you dig... THEN come back and try us out.

You do NOT need to be a professional or even an advanced player to get a lot out of the melodic triads system. But if you haven't been working at jazz guitar for a minimum of three years, this program probably isn't what you're looking for right now.

Yes. I hang in our private community and am available to answer questions during our monthly open office hours and other live zoom calls and masterclasses.

You'll also have access to some other tremendously gifted players and teachers inside who are always up to talk shop and brainstorm ideas.

Yes... but potentially less than you might think you need to know.

Deeper into the program, we DO get into some fairly advanced polytonal theory that will almost certainly be new for you unless you've studied with very forward thinking post-bop and modern jazz piano players. 

However the bulk of what you need to know to get started is actually quite simple. It's usually just what you would find in the first 2-3 chapters of a music theory 101 book.

• Can you play the seven diatonic chords in the key of C major?
  *If you're wondering, "Does he mean basic major, minor, and diminished chords? Or does he mean 7th chords?" then you're good.
• Can you spell out the four chord tones that make up a BbMaj7 chord?
• Do you know the difference between a minor 2nd and a major 2nd interval?
• If so, can you name the note a minor 2nd above G natural? How about the note a major 2nd below D natural?

If you were able to verbally say and/or play the answers to the above questions (even if you had to pause and think for a minute or two)... you know enough theory to get started and see some massive progress in your musicianship.

Yes... more to come!

So far we have...
The Rock n Roller's Guide to the Swing Groove, Bootcamp Warmups, 7 Days to Melodic Minor Mastery, 7 Days to Bebop Building Blocks, and Mindset of the Masters.

Next up on the to do list...
The Busy Musician's Guide to Effective Practice

Then...

• The Sonic Explorer's Roadmap: How to Discover EVERY Possible Triad for Polytonal Harmony and Improv
• Simplified Linear Harmony: Counterpoint and Moving Voicings with Triad Pairs
• How to Learn Standards the Smart Way
• Barry Harris Simplified: A Guitar Cheatcode

And then more... as the group grows and evolves and new interests arise.

Yes. This is not a beginner jazz guitar course. If you've been working at your playing for a long time and are still struggling, you will love our courses. 

If the current approach you're taking isn't yielding the results you want, you need to try a different approach. This will be different from anything else you've tried so far. And we have the survey data to back up the results we're getting musicians.

Absolutely. This is not just a bunch of music theory fluff you already know, and I'm not just going to hand you a bunch of riffs to memorize. I guarantee you, you will start hearing massive changes in your playing quickly once you start our system... and before you know it, you'll be taking your playing to new levels you might not even be aware are within your reach.

Big time, yes.

Bill Evans once said, "Jazz isn't intellectual theorem. It's feeling."

Keith Jarrett once said something similar about jazz... that it's not about the material (theory)... but rather "the dance" we each have with that material.

Scofield once told me something similar. He said, "Jazz is just singin' and dancin'."

There really isn't all that much theory needed to become quite masterful at playing jazz. What is needed is a deep and personal connection with the theory. A way to turn that theory into something human and beautiful. And this is exactly what we focus on in The Melodic Triads System. How do we say something with what we know. That's what our 5 evolutionary pillars are designed to help you do.

Yes. We have many members with music degrees from college. Even masters degrees. And we also have musicians who teach on the college level. There is so much more to jazz education than just what's taught in our academic institutions. That's why Miles dropped out of Juilliard. He had access to the greatest musical school in the world with the best resources available. They had ensembles he could play with, a library for him to find any recording he wanted to transcribe the greatest solos of all time, and practice rooms to put in his 10,000 hours of practice. But he walked away and left it all behind, because he realized there was something far deeper about music that he could learn from hanging with Bird.

This was exactly my experience studying jazz the traditional way (including getting my undergraduate degree) for two decades... and then moving to NYC and starting to hang, play, and study with my mentors. It's a whole different experience. And I've put all of their wisdom and their priorities, mixed with my own, into this program.

I can't speak to how others price their programs. I can only speak to what you're getting with this program.

Among our members you will find Berklee grads ($200,000+ tuition)... one of whom told me that what he learned from us was lightyears beyond anything he got from Berklee. You will find a graduate from the Musicians Insitute ($100,000+ tuition) with 35 years of professional experience who still hadn't found the clarity he was looking for in his playing... until he joined us. And directly above the FAQ section you'll find an email I received from a member who took private lessons every two weeks for 13 years with the legendary Ted Greene (at $100/lesson, that's $33,800)... but was still unhappy with his playing, and after joining us told me he wished he'd found us 50 years earlier.

You're not simply getting access to yet another jazz guitar course. You're getting serious, hardcore results. Results that even the most expensive universities and institutions weren't able to provide to these members. And you're getting it for pennies on the dollar of what they charge.

For the price of just 15-20 private lessons, you're getting a system whose members are reporting getting years to decades closer to their dream playing... plus lifetime access to my help to keep you growing. 

If I'm being honest, I actually think the program is vastly underpriced. I wish I'd had access to something like this growing up. It would have saved me a fortune in private lessons and school and decades of frustration and wasted time.

Yes. 30 days to test us out. If it's not for you, just send me an email to let me know, and I'll personally send you your payment back.

In the past I tried allowing PayPal for the monthly membership, and it was a nightmare. It just doesn't connect properly with the website. So I do accept PayPal for the lifetime purchase, but it's no longer an option for the subscription.