Paul Bollenback

Paul Bollenback's 2023 six-week ear training course for jazz guitar — and your purchase includes four full previous sessions of the course as well. The class puts the basic building blocks of…

Guitarist Paul Bollenback, organist Pat Bianchi, and drummer Byron "Wookie" Landham — a working organ trio with a long shared history — perform together and break down how a high-level rhythm…

Paul Bollenback teaches a short power course on soloing in single notes using false harmonics — fretting a note with the left hand while the right hand touches the node twelve frets above, producing…

Paul Bollenback presents a full workout for the picking hand: exercises he has used for years to keep his picking strong, build coordination between the hands, and get a better sound. He opens with…

Paul Bollenback teaches the concepts and practice routines he personally uses to play at burning tempos — demonstrated on "Cherokee" at around 310 bpm. Drawing on years of being put on the…

Paul Bollenback teaches chord-shape soloing using Kurt Weill's standard Speak Low as the vehicle. Instead of memorizing countless scale patterns, Paul builds his lines off a handful of chord shapes…

A recorded live Q&A session with jazz guitarist Paul Bollenback, originally streamed on April 5, 2018. Paul answers questions from members about guitar playing, improvisation, and his musical…

Guitarist Paul Bollenback teaches a class on developing your time, groove, and projection — and how technique affects all three. Drawing on his experience performing with drummers like Jeff "Tain"…

Paul Bollenback shares his concepts and real-world experience of comping — in a trio, with a piano player, with a horn player, and with a singer. Each setting makes different demands on a…

In his first Mike's Master Class, Paul Bollenback teaches the Chromatic Line Game : using a chromatically ascending or descending upper voice inside your chords to generate motion and direction in…

Paul Bollenback teaches jazz guitar accompaniment and solo performance in this intimate masterclass recorded live at the IAJE Conference, with vocalist Chris McNulty joining for duo demonstrations…

Paul Bollenback explores the art of playing jazz blues, combining the roots of blues music with the expanding harmonic possibilities and varying approaches developed from the 1950s to the present…

Paul Bollenback teaches jazz comping on the two most common vehicles in the music: the blues and rhythm changes . Starting with a blues in Bb, Paul demonstrates the melodic approach to comping —…

Paul Bollenback dedicates a full class to crafting jazz introductions and endings — how to set the mood and tempo from the first note and bring a tune to a close that flows naturally instead of…

Guitarist Paul Bollenback explores the art of solo jazz guitar, focusing on chord melody techniques and real-world performance strategies. Rather than teaching rigid, worked-out arrangements, Paul…

Jazz guitarist Paul Bollenback continues his Art of Solo Guitar series with a workshop on spontaneous solo performance — playing tunes you haven't worked out in advance, with solid time and a groove…

Paul Bollenback wraps up his Art of Solo Guitar series with a class devoted to introductions and endings — the parts of a solo performance guitarists most often get stuck on when a bandleader says…

Paul Bollenback teaches how to get maximum mileage from just a few chord shapes on the guitar — voicings that can each be "more than one thing" depending on the root. Using Victor Young's "Stella By…

Paul Bollenback shows how to expand your chord vocabulary on the ii-V-I — the most fundamental progression in jazz — by starting from three basic shapes you already know and moving the inner voices…