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Learn Jazz Guitar with Matt Otten

Jazz Guitar Courses from beginner to advanced

Matt Otten is a jazz guitarist and teacher that has successfully authored 7 DVD Jazz Guitar Courses and 2 books with chord melody arrangements published by world music publisher Hal Leonard. Matt also has a very popular YouTube channel with hundreds of videos and millions of views. He has been praised for his tone, clear and melodic improvisations, and for his no-nonsense teaching, making complex jazz concepts clear and understandable.

This site offers online jazz guitar courses at all levels, starting at the very beginning, and progressing up to advanced and mature soloing.

If you want to ask some questions, or just look around and preview some lessons, you can start a free membership, with no obligations.

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But you can also just go right ahead and watch some of the previews that are provided for each course.

  • Jazz Guitar - The Basics: if you need some help before going into the intermediate and advanced level courses: this one is for beginners.

  • Jazz Guitar Improvisation Workout; Exercises and Examples with very extensive notation and TABS. A great follow-up to the Jazz Guitar Basics course

  • Smooth Jazz Guitar Solos, audio, video, full notation/TABS, explanations, backing tracks.

  • Cool Jazz Guitar Solos, audio, video, full notation/TABS, explanations, backing tracks in mainstream jazz styles.

  • Talking Jazz Guitar, a collection of lessons on jazz guitar topics from chords and scales to tunes and examples, with audio, video, backing tracks in various jazz styles.

  • Blues Forms for Jazz Guitar, 11 lesson modules, starting with the most basic basic 3-chord blues and finally arriving at sophisticated jazz blues.

You can check out some previews of each course above, but if you want an overview, you also watch the free video: Courses Overview

Hear Matt's Playing:

You can learn this entire tune and improv: it's in the Jazz Guitar Improvisation Workout. This video has been watched more than 300.000 times!

You can learn to play the blues with Blues Forms for Jazz Guitar. Play like Wes Montgomery.

Play Contemporary Jazz, like this tune, that is in the course Talking Jazz Guitar.

Besides course materials other downloads will be added as well.

Educational

Danny Boy arrangement: an extensive Matt Otten solo guitar arrangement of this traditional song.

Entertainment

Matt Otten Plays Elferink Guitars - Special Edition CD Album

14 Pieces for Harp and Bass - CD album

Matt Otten Plays Peerless Guitars - Special Edition CD Album

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Questions and Support

  • Includes 1 additional product

Ask your questions about the Matt Otten Jazz Guitar courses. We do not bother you with unsollicited emails, so just check in whenever you want to stay informed on general updates and changes. Note: each course also has its own specific support pages for customers.
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  • $45

Jazz Guitar - The Basics

  • Course
  • 39 Lessons

To learn jazz guitar as a beginner you need to have some basic tools, like scales and chords. Learning the most basic scales and chords is a necessary first step before learning to improvise and play jazz. Here we start with the basics of chords and scales, what they are, how to play them, and how to use them. We will do musical exercises to practice the techniques, but also to understand why and how they are used.

  • $35

Talking Jazz Guitar

  • Course
  • 54 Lessons

An intermediate level course on many aspects of jazz guitar, by Hal Leonard author, Matt Otten. Four different kinds of tunes are used to discuss and demonstrate jazz chords, scales and improvisation, playing techniques etc. Multiple backing tracks are provided for practice.

  • $35

Blues Forms for Jazz Guitar

  • Course
  • 64 Lessons

Introduction to jazz blues. In 10 steps (11 lessons), you go from a very traditional and basic 3 chord blues to sophisticated jazz blues. Along the way, essential jazz concepts and techniques are introduced. The videos are supported by notation and TABS, and a Guide to all of the lessons. Each lessons ends with a solo on video with animated fretboard. Each lesson has inspiring backing tracks to practice with.

  • $35

Jazz Guitar Improvisation Workout

  • Course
  • 99 Lessons

Previously known as the 'Jazz Guitar Improvisation Exercises and Examples', this is a multi-level training program designed to get you started with true jazz improvisation, by practicing and playing, like a workout. It differs from other courses in that it relies less on video, but more on audio and very extensive notation (TABS and standard); but with explanation videos and fretboard videos as supporting material.

  • $35

Cool Jazz Guitar Solos

  • Course
  • 39 Lessons

Full and mature cool jazz solos with backing tracks and full notation. Like the Smooth Jazz Guitar Solos this is not for beginners. Here you have intermediate and advanced solos in various mainstream jazz styles. A great follow-up to the Jazz Guitar Improvisation Workout, or to dive in straight away if you are ready to learn at an advanced level. An updated and extended re-release of the All Jazz Refill DVD;

  • $30

Smooth Jazz Guitar Solos

  • Course
  • 38 Lessons

This collection of 12 guitar solos with full notation was previously distributed on DVD as the Smooth Jazz Refill (DVD). This online release has been updated, and has online advantages such video slow-down features, video captions, and instant availability. If you want to learn from full and mature solos with audio, lead and backing tracks, extensive notation, fretboard video, and explanations, this is it.

  • $5

Danny Boy for Solo Guitar

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  • 1 file

  • $7.50

Matt Otten Plays Elferink Guitars - CD Album (Download)

  • Download
  • 12 files

This limited edition CD album was recorded with handcrafted archtop guitars made by luthier Frans Elferink. The CD itself is no longer available, and these private recordings are not available elsewhere. It contains solo guitar recordings as well as smooth jazz and jazz quartet recordings.

  • $8.50

14 Pieces for Harp and Bass - CD album (download)

  • Download
  • 19 files

Maria Harp (voc) and Matt Otten (git) are joined by four famous bass players: Pino Palladino, Gary Willis, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, and Hein van de Geyn, and a group of world-class musicians. Matt composed and arranged most of the music on this album. Read the included CD booklet for details of this remarkable and unique project.

  • $7.50

Matt Otten Plays Peerless Guitars - CD Album (Download)

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  • 16 files

When Matt Otten became a Peerless Guitars endorsee, he recorded a special edition CD recorded on Peerless guitars. These recordings were never published elsewhere. Four more tunes are added in this digital distribution. Most of these recordings cannot be obtained anywhere else.

  • Free

General Introduction to Courses

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  • 2 Lessons

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