Everything You Need To Learn Jazz Guitar and Play with Confidence!
Welcome to Chase's Guitar Academy.
CGA is a year-round program that gives you the live coaching, structured curriculum, community, accountability, feedback, and support necessary to play jazz guitar confidently and have fun in the process.
How it works
With our program, you’ll learn how to:
- Feel confident in your jazz guitar playing, with support from Chase and your peers
- Improve your understanding of music theory and apply it to practical uses
- Develop your chord playing so you can accompany with ease
- Improvise freely and melodically, thinking in terms of vocabulary and not scales
- Play solo guitar and chord melodies over classic standards
After just 2 weeks of following our program, it's common for members tell us that this was the BEST musical decision they've made.
Hear from our CGA members!
The Classroom
The core curriculum inside of Chase's Guitar Academy breaks down into 3 programs depending on your current level.
One of the defining features of this program is that all of the classes progress from one level to the next, building on the knowledge and skills you develop along the way.
Jazz Guitar Foundations
For beginner level members
Jazz Guitar Elevator
For intermediate level members
Jazz Guitar Mastery
For advanced and professional members
What's Inside?
Who: For Beginner-Intermediate Jazz Guitarists
What: Live weekly class taught by Chase to learn music theory, technique, and fundamental chord and improvising techniques
When: 1hr every Monday, alternating 1PM and 5PM EST, starting Sept. 18 (recorded if you can’t attend)
Where: Online via Zoom in Chase’s Guitar Academy
Why: Make fast progress learning jazz guitar by focusing on ONLY the essential concepts and techniques you need
How: We will cover…
- Music Theory - Understanding Major Keys & Scales Course
- Reading Music Notation - Sight Reading
- Reading Lead Sheets
- Understanding Major Scales
- Understanding Chord Progressions
- Technique - “28 Days to Fast Jazz Lines” Challenge
- Picking Technique
- Harmony - Fundamental Jazz Chords & Rhythms Course
- Fundamental Chord Voicings & Techniques
- Rhythms for Comping
- Practicing Chord Progressions
- Harmonic Ear Training
- Improvising - Creating Melodic Ideas for Improvisation
- Scales
- Arpeggios
- Chromaticism
What's Inside?
Who: For Intermediate Jazz Guitarists
What: Learn how to play over various jazz blues progressions, the 31 Essential Jazz Patterns that form improvised lines, and the “Secret Jazz Chord” which vastly simplifies the melodic minor scale and associated harmony
When & Where: Pre-recorded courses within Chase’s Guitar Academy
Why: The skills covered in this series of courses are critical for going from someone who uses one general scale when soloing, to playing like a true jazz musician— addressing chord tones and using common jazz vocabulary for chords and improvising.
How: We will cover…
- Jazz Blues - Jazz Blues Accelerator Course
- Module 1: The 12-Bar Blues (F Blues)
- Module 2: The 16-Bar Blues (Extended F Blues)
- Module 3: The 12-Bar Blues Revisited (Bb Blues)
- Module 4: The 12-Bar Blues Variation (Bb Blues)
- Module 5: The Minor Blues (C minor Blues)
- Module 6: The Jazz Blues (F Jazz Blues)
- Improvisation - The 31 Essential Jazz Patterns Course
- This course is for the intermediate guitarist who wants to understand the 31 Essential Jazz Patterns that form the basis of more advanced jazz vocabulary.
- These patterns come from my research of 100s of jazz transcriptions across all instruments.
- The patterns contained in this course are applied over "Autumn Leaves".
- Harmony - “The Secret Jazz Chord” Mini-Course
- This course is for the intermediate guitarist who wants to understand the melodic minor scale and associated chords better.
- This is a prerequisite of going further into the Jazz Guitar Mastery course series.
- The concept of the Secret Jazz Chord in this formulation comes from my teacher in college, Barry Greene.
What's Inside?
Who: For Intermediate-Advanced Jazz Guitarists
What: Learn the most common jazz standards using the Master Standards Blueprint curriculum, and learn the Essential Jazz Vocabulary taken from the masters of the jazz language
When: 1hr every Wednesday, alternating 1PM and 4PM EST, starting Sept. 20 (recorded if you can’t attend)
Where: Online via Zoom in Chase’s Guitar Academy
Why: Access my proven, systematic curriculum that builds your knowledge of jazz standards and jazz vocabulary from the ground up.
How: We will cover…
- Repertoire & Harmony - Master Standards Blueprint Program
- Module 1: “Take the A Train”
- Module 2: “Perdido”
- Module 3: “Tune Up”
- Module 4: “Pent Up House”
- Module 5: “Blues Bossa’
- Module 6: “Sugar”
- Module 7: “Summertime”
- Module 8: “Black Orpheus”
- Module 9: “In Walked Bud”
- Module 10: “Autumn Leaves”
- Improvisation - Essential Jazz Vocab
- Understand how the 31 Essential Jazz Patterns combine to create Essential Jazz Vocab (the musical equivalent of how words form sentences in language)
- Use real examples from recordings to demonstrate these combinations from my research of 100+ transcriptions
- Practice these combinations in class to internalize and integrate the language
The Calendar
Attend classes live or watch the recordings afterwards.
Classes alternate times to accommodate different timezones.
You have access to all calls and recordings at both membership levels.
See a real sample month of classes below.
Limited Time BONUS!
Get ALL of my eBooks and related courses including:
- The 60 Master ii-V-I Lines eBook and Video Course
- The Master Arpeggios eBook
- Master Dominant Bebop Patterns & Scales
- The 15min Practice Routines Vol. 1
- All $5 PDFs for YT lessons
