Podcast: Using Guitar Picks for Jazz – Tips and Techniques

In this live session excerpt, Ryan and Greg discuss just which jazz songs and song forms to learn first for those who are early in their jazz guitar journey. Utilizing the '80/20 rule', these tunes will teach you the common chord progressions, turnarounds and song forms to enable you to play thousands of other songs!

Join hosts Ryan and Vin as they interview legendary guitarist and educator Rodney Jones of the Julliard School of Music on this episode of the Fret Dojo podcast

Joins Greg as he chats with one of Australia's leading classical guitarists, and an old friend, Daniel McKay.

Join hosts Ryan and Vin as they interview jazz guitarist and educator Dr. Davy Mooney of the University of North Texas on this episode of the Fret Dojo podcast.

Fret Dojo instructors Greg O’Rourke and Ryan Dillahay sat down with Rotem Sivan, just a few weeks before his new release in Jan 2024!

In this exclusive interview, Greg and Vin chat with Beth Marlis, long time professor and current Vice President of Musicians Institute

In this exclusive interview, Vin and Ryan chat with legendary jazz guitarist Jimmy Bruno

In this exclusive interview, Ryan pulls back the curtain on his evolution from blues to jazz. You'll hear how this recent college grad, and student of one of the most highly regarded jazz guitarists and educators in the country, made the leap into full-time musicianship, hustling gigs across town.

Choosing the right picking style is one of the mostly hotly debated topics in jazz guitar. Tune in today where we'll have an in-depth discussion on the different picking approaches for jazz guitar.

On today’s podcast, Greg and Vin interview one of jazz guitar’s leading player and educators, Barry Greene.