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Jazz Guitar Lessons for career-minded players and serious amateurs.

Jazz Theory and Improvisation for All Instruments.

For the player who wants to improve his/her improvising concept, reading
abilities, technique and overall understanding of the jazz idiom and jazz
techniques without necessarily wanting to become a "jazz" player.

Topics covered may include:

Chord construction, chord form fingerings, reading chord charts, chord
melody arranging and improvising, harmonic analysis etc.

Fretting hand: 
single note techniques: 
position (ie. vertical) playing, single string and combination
(ie.horizontal) playing, string bending, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slurs etc.

Pick hand techniques: 
alternate picking, sweep picking, pick + fingers (for chord melody) and a
little bit of finger-style. (Note: I am not qualified to teach proper
classical guitar technique although I can play some of the repertoire and
borrow some classical techniques in my own playing.)

Improvising: 
via modal chord scales, arpeggios, traditional melodic techniques (ie.
passing tones, appoggiaturas, tensions etc.), the blues scale, pentatonic
scales, symmetrical and synthetic scales, thematic development, etc.

Jazz repertoire development.

Sight reading and studio styles.

Guitar set-up, tuning, whammy bars etc.

Styles that I am comfortable with:
Main Stream and Modern Jazz, Be-bop, Fusion, Rhythm & Blues, Blues, Classic
Rock, Pop etc.


About Myself

My name is Joey Goldstein. I have been performing and teaching around
Toronto for close to 20 years. I attended Berklee College of Music (Boston)
in the early 70's where I had the privilege to study with Pat Metheny, Mick
Goodrick, Gary Burton, Hal Crook, William G. Leavitt and many other truly
great and inspiring musicians.

I have also attended clincs with Lenny Breau and Howard Roberts. I studied
electronic music briefly at York University - Toronto.

I've been teaching privately ever since.

I have also been teaching jazz guitar and ensemble / improvisation at
Mohawk College (Hamilton, Ontario) for over 10 years. Other faculty members
include Dave McMurdo, Mike Malone, Geoff Young, Kevin Dempsey, Mark
Eisenman and Pat Collins.


Some of the people I have either recorded or performed with include:

Jazz Artists:
Ron Allen, Ralph Bowen, Freeflight, Michael Farquharson, Darcy Hepner,
Graeme Kirkland, Vito Rezza, Dave Hutchison and many others.

Pop Artists:
Vivienne Williams, Patsy Gallant, Liberty Silver, Paul Christopher, George
Olliver, Della Reese, Billy Newton - Davis, Gwen Swick, Molly Johnson,
Sheree Jaecocke, Bobby Herriot and many others.

I've also recorded 2 albums as a leader/composer:

The Joey Goldstein Band - Time's Square .... featuring Boko Suzuki
(keyboards), Mark Kelso
(drums) and Michael Farquharson (bass). (1988)

Joey Goldstein & Friends - A Strange Little Tune .... featuring Doug Riley
(piano), Michael Farquharson (bass) and Vito Rezza (drums). (1993)

My better known students have included: Ian McNally (Amanda Marshall Band),
Andy Scott (One Step Beyond), Jason Reed (Leslie Spit Treeo) and Fergus
Hambleton (Sattalites).

Please visit my Home Page for further info.
http://home.ican.net/~joegold/ 

There are samples of some my work sheets there, available for download, as
well as the first few tentative chapters of a book I am writing entitled
"Joe's Guitar Method - Towards An Improvisor's Technique". Look towards the
bottom of the Guitar Lessons page for the links.

Lessons are $35.00 per hour....once every 2 weeks (usually).

Joey Goldstein
(416) 487-0212
joegold AT idirect DOT com
I'm near Davisville and Yonge.

PS

During the summer I also do a stint teaching at IMF's Camp Rock.

Please visit my website for more info: <http://webhome.idirect.com/~joegold/>

-- 
Joey Goldstein
Jazz Guitarist/Composer/Bandleader/Teacher
joegoldATidirectDOTcom