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8 Sep By admin

Free Online Fingerstyle Guitar Workshop

ArtistWorks and JustinGuitar.com Present “Martin Taylor Fingerstyle Guitar Live,” a Free Online Workshop with Solo Fingerstyle Legend Martin Taylor

Martin Taylor performs live, teaches, and answers questions for fingerstyle guitar lovers in this hour-long online live workshop

ArtistWorks, the leading interactive lifestyle social learning platform, and leading free online guitar resource JustinGuitar.com present a free online workshop featuring world-renowned solo jazz guitarist Martin Taylor.

The workshop takes place online October 1st at 8PM GMT – 1 PM Pacific Daylight Time.

Guitar enthusiasts will be treated to impromptu performances, techniques and tips for fingerstyle players, and Q&A with the legendary solo jazz master himself.

Pat Metheny called Martin Taylor “one of the most awesome solo guitar players in history.”

Jeff Beck says “He out-shreds all of us put together.”

He’s received 15 British Jazz Awards, a Grammy nomination, and in 2002 was appointed an MBE by the Queen for “Services to Music”.

Just off a successful world tour with fellow great, Tommy Emmanuel, in support of their latest CD ‘The Colonel & The Governor’, Taylor now treats fans to a free hour of all things guitar.

In addition to his acclaimed performing career, Taylor has spent the past three years pioneering a new way to teach guitar at the ArtistWorks Online Fingerstyle Guitar School with Martin Taylor.

At the ArtistWorks Online Fingerstyle Guitar School with Martin Taylor, students can learn from Martin’s complete library of online video lessons and tabs. They can use ArtistWorks Video Exchange™ Feedback Platform to submit practice videos and get personalized video responses from Martin with feedback and additional exercises.

These Video Exchanges are paired together, combined with the lessons and made available for all students to see and learn from.

“Solo Fingerstyle Guitar Live” will stream live at MartinTaylorGuitar.com and at www.JustinGuitar.com. JustinGuitar.com Founder, Justin Sandercoe will moderate the event which will include members of Taylor’s Online Fingerstyle Guitar School as well as surprise guests.

To sign up for the event and receive an event reminder, click here.

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About ArtistWorks, Inc.

Founded in 2008 by former AOL executive David Butler and former financial executive Patricia Butler, ArtistWorks, Inc. is the leader in a new generation of online learning platforms. Their revolutionary global learning community of world-renowned teaching artists and enthusiastic amateurs is dedicated to unleashing the music that lies within all of us. This “next generation” Video Exchange Feedback Platform enables virtuoso musicians to “teach the world” by presenting their musical legacy in the form of HD video lessons to subscribing members. Utilizing simple web cams, smartphones, tablets or video cameras, members are able to submit practice videos and get individualized video feedback and guidance from their teaching artists – creating a constantly evolving two-way, online learning experience.

ArtistWorks currently offers schools from such world-class artists as: Paul Gilbert (rock guitar lessons), Martin Taylor (fingerstyle guitar lessons), Jason Vieaux (classical guitar lessons), Andreas Oberg (jazz guitar lessons), Jeannie Deva (singing lessons), Nathan Cole (violin lessons), Jeffrey Khaner (flute lessons), William Caballero (French horn lessons), David Bilger (trumpet lessons), Ricardo Morales (clarinet lessons), Nathan East (electric bass lessons), John Patitucci (jazz bass lessons), Howard Levy (harmonica lessons), DJ Qbert (DJ lessons), Christie Peery (piano lessons), Billy Cobham (jazz and fusion drum lessons), Luis Conte (percussion lessons), as well as the ArtistWorks Academy of Bluegrass with Tony Trischka (banjo lessons), Missy Raines (double bass lessons), Bryan Sutton (flatpick guitar lessons), Andy Hall (Dobro lessons), Mike Marshall (mandolin lessons), and Darol Anger (fiddle lessons). For more information, visit www.ArtistWorks.com

About JustinGuitar.com

Justinguitar.com went first live in July 2003 as a small web site offering a few lessons as a sample to promote private lessons. It grew steadily over it’s first few years, with Justin often adding content to keep himself occupied while on tour, much of it done on a laptop in hotel rooms around the globe. After seeing the popularity of YouTube Justin began making instructional guitar videos in December 2006, initially filmed and edited by his friend Jedi. In May 2013 his YouTube instructional videos have been watched over 133,000,000 (yep that’s 133 million) times and the web
site receives well over 25,000 unique visitors a day! It has received many accolades in both the traditional press and new media as well as radio and tv shows. For more information, visit JustinGuitar.com

28 Aug By admin

Tommy Emmanuel Talks About Learning Guitar with Martin Taylor

Guitarists Martin Taylor and Tommy Emmanuel sit down to jam and talk about touring, jazz & country music, Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Albert Lee and playing and learning guitar. Filmed at CAAS 2010 in Nashville.

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9 Jan By admin

Guided Fingerstyle & Jazz Guitar Arrangements

Martin has just filmed a batch of new videos as part of his Guided Arrangements™ guitar lessons series. These consist of jazz and fingerstyle lessons designed by Martin to help you create your own versions or arrangements of classic tunes. It doesn’t matter whether you are a beginner guitarist or an advanced player, the Guided Arrangements™ series enables you to create your own, custom arrangements of tunes you love. Here’s how it works…

Martin starts off with a video lesson showing the very basic arrangement of a tune in order to show you the melody, harmonic structure and chord sequence (including transcriptions). Now the fun starts as Martin personally guides you through developing your own version of the tune. You can submit a video of your progress for Taylor to provide video feedback on. Over a series of video exchanges you’ll be able to create your own arrangements.

“Creating your own arrangements is an incredibly powerful way to expand your skills and increase your understanding of your own playing,” said Martin. “Having literally watched countless students achieve dramatic improvement online, it is gratifying to be able to evolve the lessons to help them to take this next step.”

If you are already a subscriber of Martin’s online guitar school then you can get instant access to the guitar lessons here. If you haven’t yet joined and want to learn more then head along to the Martin Taylor Guitar School here.

In the meantime click on the video below to see how it all works.

3 May By admin

Martin Taylor on China TV

Central China TV (CCTV) has just aired a feature on Martin Taylor and his online guitar school with ArtistWorks. Online student Mike Wollenberg talks about getting online fingerstyle guitar lessons with Martin. You can sign up to Martin’s online guitar school at www.martintaylorguitar.com from only $90 for a three month subscription and join guitarists in over 58 countries who have already done so.

Watch the video by clicking here (interview starts at 36min 55sec).

18 Nov By admin

Martin Taylor and Tony McManus

Martin Taylor talks with the wonderful celtic acoustic guitarist Tony McManus at this years Chet Atkins Convention in Nashville.

In a relatively short time Tony’s music has come to define a new role for the guitar in Celtic music. He has come to represent Celtic music in the guitar world, making regular appearances at guitar specific events where just a few years ago jigs and reels would be unheard of. He is an enthusiastic collaborator both as a leader and as a sideman having worked with, among many others Dougie McLean, Phil Cunningham, Mairi MacInnes, Liam O’Flynn, Martin Simpson, Kevin Burke, Alison Brown, Martyn Bennett, Natalie MacMaster, Patrick and Jacky Molard, Mairead n├¡ Mhoanaigh and Dermot Byrne, The Nashville Chamber Orchestra, John Jorgenson, Jean Michel Veillon, Catriona Macdonald, Seikou Keita, Xos├® Manuel Budi├▒o, Ewen Vernal and Andy Irvine.

The full interview and footage is up at www.martintaylorguitar.com along with a host of other videos from the event.