Jamie Taylor

Jamie Taylor teaches the art of "four to the bar" rhythm guitar — the moving, swinging counterpoint that players like Freddie Green , Jim Hall , and Bucky Pizzarelli created behind soloists. The…

Jamie Taylor shares his personal approach to ear training, focused on acquiring relative pitch — the skill that lets you identify the real music you hear on the bandstand. Aural awareness may not be…

Jamie Taylor's guide to practical single-line reading on the guitar — a 1 hour 25 minute class on building real fluency with the treble staff, aimed at electric guitarists who want to read in the…

Jamie Taylor studies an iconic 1944 solo by Oscar Moore of the King Cole Trio on Body & Soul — one of the most-played standards of all time, played by one of the electric guitar's earliest greats…

Jamie Taylor takes the fear out of John Coltrane's Giant Steps with a focused 30-minute class built around two purpose-built etudes. Nearly sixty years on, this tune remains a rite of passage for…

Jamie Taylor presents four of his original pieces for acoustic guitar — " Little Owl ", " Song For The Listener ", " Lost Hearts ", and " Wednesday's Child " — with full notation and TAB, video and…

Jamie Taylor shows how to internalize a jazz standard quickly, lay it out effectively on the guitar, and personalize it on the fly — using Frank Loesser's "I've Never Been in Love Before" as the…

Jamie Taylor is a jazz guitarist based in the North of England. He maintains a busy performing schedule, having been privileged to work along the way with some wonderful musicians across a range of…

Jamie Taylor introduces "comprovisation" — his blend of composition and improvisation — in this 1-hour-15-minute class on how jazz musicians actually generate vocabulary. The most common questions…

UK jazz guitarist Jamie Taylor teaches a class on jazz time feel — the constant factor uniting all the jazz greats, from Louis Armstrong to Kurt Rosenwinkel. Jamie tackles the myths around the…

Jamie Taylor teaches exercises and ideas for taking your jazz phrasing beyond "square" four-measure boxes — achieving maximum rhythmic interest and variety in 4/4 and 3/4 time. If you can get…

Jamie Taylor takes a 'two-speed' approach to Rhythm Changes — the many variants of Gershwin's I Got Rhythm , probably the second most called tune in the repertoire after the blues. The tune is…

Jamie Taylor teaches the essentials of jazz guitar comping in this practical class for players new to the style. The focus isn't complicated harmonic theory — it's getting stuck into the basic…

Jamie Taylor applies his "two-speed" method to the blues, taking another essential jazz progression from first principles through to advanced variants. Following a customer suggestion (thanks Ray!)…

Jamie Taylor expands the comping vocabulary established in Part One of A Guide to Practical Comping , working toward total melodic freedom over almost any harmonic situation. The main focus is…

Jamie Taylor tackles a very common weakness among jazz guitar students: memorizing, retaining, and delivering standard song melodies. Players in a hurry to get to their solo often barely learn the…

Jamie Taylor explains the simple, centuries-old harmonic infrastructure at work in jazz standards — and why a literal "match the scale to the chord symbol" approach can lead to poor note choices…

Jamie Taylor continues his Making the Changes series, explaining the simple harmonic infrastructure at work in jazz standards and how to use it to make better note choices when soloing. As in Part…