Ben Sher
3 masterclasses on how Ben hears, harmonizes and arranges a tune
3 masterclasses · 76 students
Preview · Fretboard Harmony: Breaking Out of The 'Box'
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About Ben
Mike’s Master Classes is proud to welcome Ben Sher to our roster. Ben is a veteran New York jazz guitarist, one of the most stylistically diverse musicians around.…
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Mike’s Master Classes is proud to welcome Ben Sher to our roster. Ben is a veteran New York jazz guitarist, one of the most stylistically diverse musicians around. “Fluent in the classic jazz guitar tradition of Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino, Ben also draws from the great Brazilian guitar tradition” and is known for Brazilian Jazz Recordings on BGI Records; TudoBem, Please Take me to Brasil, and Tempestarde”. But Ben also plays in numerous other jazz styles, from gypsy jazz, to jazz fusion. He has recorded and toured in a wide variety of musical situations: from performing with cabaret star Ute Lemper at the Montreuex and Istanbul Jazz festivals, with the avant grade swing Knitting Factory group Ball-in-the -Jack at the Berlin and North Sea Jazz festivals, to being the featured artist at LeClub in Moscow and the Blue Note in Fukuoka Japan, and many other top venues. Ben is currently a Professor at Berklee College of Music and Kutztown University.
Ben's courses sit in our Harmony & Theory collection.
What students say
A relief to have an explanation of Brazilian rhythm playing that I can understand and apply. Thanks Ben
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Darren Irons
Chord Soloing with Ben Sher7/20/2026
very disappointed so far. seems more like a money grab.. not true instrutional course..
Ray Bartlet
Ben's Basic Bossa and Samba Grooves6/21/2020
Clear, concise and applicable.
A relief to have an explanation of Brazilian rhythm playing that I can understand and apply. Thanks Ben
Louis Bravo
Fretboard Harmony: Breaking Out of The 'Box'9/14/2019
Great way to break out of position playing.
Good class on fretboard navigation! Thank you for using a guitar with fret markers. One friendly tip to vastly improve the usefulness of your video lesson (without buying any new equipment): Reposition your camera to get close-up shots of your fretboard. This is especially important when you don’t supply a companion PDF of your lesson. As a paying student, all I need to see is the fretboard, your hands, and hear your voice. You can still do an intro video with wide portrait framing but after that its all about that fretboard. I hope you can do this on your next one. Lastly, please give us at least one VERY slow demo of each exercise. This was especially crucial in the second half of the lesson when you started demoing scales. Playing a scale exercise at full speed in an instructional video is not helpful. The half-speed feature for playback can only go so far and it doesn’t remove motion blur.
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Good class on fretboard navigation! Thank you for using a guitar with fret markers.…