Allen Hinds – Lesson In Legato
May 7, 2013Legato technique specialist Allen Hinds gives an incredible insight into this way of playing in the 14 pages of exercises and licks that come with this "A Lesson In Legato", his first for JGS. Besides touring with his own band, he's worked with Gino Vannelli, The Crusaders, Boney James etc., and is an in demand...
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JGS Jay Roberts Interview, Feb 28, 2013
I met up with Jay Roberts at the NAMM Show in Anaheim in January of this year at the Concert he put on one night after the show for the upcoming documentary that he is making on his father, the late great guitar genius Howard Roberts. We got to play together that night and Jay was literally showing everyone the encyclopedia of what could be done on a guitar in his solos, and I decided I wanted to do an interview with him not only on his father and the upcoming movie, but also his own considerable achievements on the instrument. We talked a few weeks later after he had done his own set of interviews with some of the people that will be in the documentary in Hollywood, and also ended up talking about a number of other stellar guitarists he has gotten to know in his journey with the guitar.- Doug Perkins, JGS Read more...
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Coming Soon: Allen Hinds’ “Lesson In Legato”
Date posted:April 13th, 2013
JGS has an exciting new masterclass currently in production featuring our newest teacher Allen Hinds (Gino Vannelli, Crusaders, Boney James, Allen Hinds). Allen is an in demand instructor at Musician’s Institute and shows insights into developing the legato techniques used by Alan Holdsworth, Hinds and more.
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New CD Review: Albert Vila Trio – “Standards”
Date posted:January 14th, 2013
Read more...Check out a hot new guitarist from Spain that you should know about!
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Barry Finnerty is joining the JGS roster of teachers.
Date posted:January 14th, 2013
Barry was the guitarist on the Miles Davis come-back album “Man With The Horn” as well as the Brecker Bros. amazing “Heavy Metal BeBop” – just that is enough to earn your place in the jazz hall of fame, but Barry’s credits don’t stop there. A new masterclass is due February from him, so stay tuned.
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JGS Interview Series Begins
Date posted:January 14th, 2013
We’ve decided to start a series of interviews with some great players on the site, and we are starting it off this month with an interview with Scott Henderson (Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Tribal Tech, etc.). Doug Perkins, who used to be roommates with Scott, talks to him about his two new CDs (HBC and Tribal Tech “X”) as well as all the deep stuff on how he approaches improvisation and music in general.
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Coming soon: Tim Lerch “Harmonics” video
Date posted:January 14th, 2013
Tim Lerch was lucky enough to actually study privately with the legendary Lenny Brea, and has put together a fantastic video that will show you how to do those shimmering false harmonics arpeggios, etc. that Lenny was known for. It’s not easy to do well, but Tim has it down and will show you the fundamentals for this beautiful and impressive technique.