A FREE Melodic Triads Course

SIMPLIFY ADVANCED JAZZ GUITAR & PUT YOUR PROGRESS INTO HYPERDRIVE

✅ Pianistic Voicings

✅ Improvise with the sweet spot notes, even over advanced harmonies

✅ Monthly challenges and tune application ideas

❌ ZERO music theory 101 fluff

What you'll see inside the course

Musicians who've worked on melodic triads with me

Frequently Asked Questions

So it's a course?

Yes.

Next Level Jazz Guitar is a free course. It offers a shortcut look at how to take Bill Evans' playing, thinking, and advice and apply it to the fretboard to create pianistic harmony, elegant phrases, and explosive results.

Every month I will apply a short series of videos and a new PDF cheat sheet applying the foundational ways Bill approach the keys - and the fretboard shortcuts they give us - to a new advanced harmony. This way we can continue to grow with our guitar playing, our comping, our improvisation, and our musicianship.

And it's free?!

Yes.

You can access the videos and PDF cheat sheet for the current month inside Next Level Jazz Guitar for free.

There is an optional live zoom session each month that can be joined for $27. And you can also access all of the archived monthly videos and PDFs, all of the live zoom sessions, and all of the archived zoom sessions by upgrading to our Melodic Triads Study Group later.

But the monthly course is free.

Who exactly have you been mentored by?

Oof.
This is a long list. I'm sure I'm going to forget some important people.

Direct, personal, mentorship and music hangs?

John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Bernstein, Dave Stryker, Brad Shepik, Stefon Harris, Jean-Michel Pilc, and Alan Ferber... along with a whole host of incredible, if lesser known, players.

As for guys I've gotten to play alongside or just hang and chat with about life, music, and practice?

Jim Hall, Chick Corea, Lenny White, Kenny Werner, Stanley Clarke, Adam Rogers, Wayne Krantz, Mark Turner, Ari Hoenig, Roy Hargrove, Cyrus Chestnut, and countless others I've lost track of.

What are your teaching and performing credentials?

I began teaching online full-time in 2016 when my medical issues hit (years before covid mixed up the music education world). At the time, I was too sick to be around other people in person, so I moved everything online and have been here ever since.

Prior to that I had been teaching music professionally for about two decades. I was an adjunct instructor in the jazz departments at New York University and Fordham University and have guest lectured at multiple schools around the world including a yearly lecture I continue to give to the incoming freshman class at NYU.

I've performed a handful of times at The Blue Note, Zinc Bar, ShapeShifter, and a variety of other famous NYC jazz clubs. Outside the city, I recorded and toured with a few groups over the years and have played all around the country. Most notably I performed twice at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, but I've played everywhere from Boston down to Miami, to Chicago and Colorado, and all the way out to California where I played The Joshua Tree Music Festival with a 12 piece afrobeat orchestra I used to be a member of back when I was a wee youngin, willing to sleep next to 10 stanky other dudes on the floor in a single hotel room and eat half my meals out of gas stations 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

What if I need help?

There are a few ways you can get help with the material.

You can attend the monthly zoom session where I will go deeper into the theory behind these shortcuts and take questions from the group.

You can post your questions in our Melodic Triads Facebook Group and get responses from the other musicians who've been working on these materials for years and are happy to help.

Once inside Next Level Jazz Guitar, you can learn about how to upgrade to the Melodic Triads Study Group or Inner Circle Mentorship programs, where I have a variety of ways I can help - open office hours, weekly zoom calls, near-on-demand text and video feedback.

Okay. This sounds cool. How do I get started?

Simple. Just enter your email into one of the 'GET INSTANT ACCESS' boxes on this page and click submit. No payment or credit card required.

I'm not looking for a free course. Can I work one-on-one with you?

Yes. I am available for online mentorship and guidance. There are a couple of ways I can tag team your progress with you beyond this free course.

I have information and links to these additional study options inside Next Level Jazz Guitar and recommend you get started by signing up for the free course. Not only will it let you get started much more quickly... but also... I don't teach the basic, conventional chord-scale theory. I'm happy to help with it, as I have a masters in jazz studies and could talk all day about theory. But I prefer to help musicians who want a more specialized, direct, practical approach to improving their musicianship. Checking out Next Level Jazz Guitar will give you an idea of where I'm coming from and if we would click well in a student/teacher situation.

Once you're inside, just follow the links to learn more about upgrading to fast-track your progress. You'll find the info about my mentorship program there and can reach out and contact me so we can talk.