The Origins of the Jazz Guitar Society site: I happened to run across these two MP3s from when my partner John Pin was one of my (Doug Perkins) private students when I taught at Musician’s Institute in Hollywood in the mid 1980s where I am illustrating …

Here’s a transcription I with the exact voicings that Robben Ford played on his unique version of the old Duke Ellington tune (lyrics by Don George) “I Ain’t Got Nothing But The Blues”, and that’s a free PDF download for anyone that would like to get i …

I’m currently doing an eBook for a publisher intended for people that know how to play guitar but now want to learn how to play jazz on it. One of my little advice “sidebars” in the book is about jam sessions, so I decided I would write something for J …

My Tribute To Jeff Beck (Jan 11, 2023) (This is the tribute I (Doug Perkins) did on Facebook the day after Jeff Beck died (Jan. 10, 2023), I have included all the links I put in the comments so others could see the very wide range of music this man was …

(Hypnote records, in Japan: Mocloud Records, Release Date: January 13 2023)  Solo guitar (where melody, chords and bass are all performed simultaneously by one guitarist) is something that is very difficult to explain to people who can’t do it at all. …

This lesson walks you through the fundamentals of the Jazz Blues Progression. John adds chords to a basic blues three chord blues progression, all the time explaining their purpose and function. He demonstrates voicings, chord licks and playing techniques along the way that keeps things musical and informative.

When JGS Artist Matteo Prefumo put out his new single “A New Beginning” we were very excited for him and wanted to be sure that you would be able to here it as well, you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da05mUqAx1E   We asked …

The first thing I noticed when I heard the opening track “Hope” from this really great new CD from Dan Zimmerman is the depth and clarity of the  recording – it’s just one of the best sounding records that I have come  across in any recent memories. Th …

Previously, I did a blog here that had to do with fixing guitar technique problems by slowing down practice to the point that you could see movement ergonomic (or: the science of efficiency of motion) problems for insight as to how to change them. The …

“Ode to G” – John Pin music video Since anyone familiar with JazzGuitarSociety knows that I have had a both artistic and a business relationship with John Pin for many years, I feel like I have to start this review with a disclaimer: I have always bee …

John breaks down the head and solo of this jazz/funk guitar track discussing and demonstrating each phrase in detail.

This last couple of weeks I have been doing a theatre gig with a singer / actor / guitarist / pianist doing a show of some music from retro music legends of the past, and as I was driving to the gig I was sort of reflecting on the musical road I have t …

I know I keep addressing the inner intellectual and emotional aspects of being a musician in blogs, but that’s just because I find it to be so common an issue in both in my own teaching and talking to other musicians both on the gig, and just as frie …

Every musician needs a certain amount of facility on their instrument to play the music that they are called to perform. As far as determining how much that is, I think Howard Roberts put it very succinctly in one of his books when he said that you nee …

I remember a number of years ago being in a since defunct guitar store in the valley of LA called “Guitar, Guitar” trying out a guitar synthesizer playing over a standard or a blues, and when I stopped playing for a second a guy that was standing t …