Free Guitar Lessons
Below is a list of guitar lessons written by Jon and viewable by you via this website. All lessons include notation and tablature and most contain sound files for the examples.
You might recognize some of these as articles from Guitar Magazine, way back when Jon wrote for them.
- Out-take from 'One Guitar, Many Styles': Satin Doll
- Out-take from 'One Guitar, Many Styles': Cheek to Cheek
- Out-take from 'One Guitar, Many Styles': My Favorite Things
- Warmup 1: Alternate picking exercise (with video!)
- Warmup 2: Alternate picking exercise (with video!)
- Warmup 7: Hybrid "pick and fingers" technique with scales and intervals (with video!)
- Tic-Tac-Toe for Guitar
- Damper Pedal Guitar
- Two-Handed Tapping
- Bend Steel with your Bare Hands
- Altered Pentatonics
Click the lesson title to check it out. Each lesson includes notation, tablature, and audio files.
Books!
Jon has written three books, all published through Mel Bay Publications:
- Advanced Modern Rock Guitar Improvisation
- One Guitar, Many Styles: A Collection of Solo Pieces in a Variety of Styles for Solid-Bodied Electric Guitar
Advanced Modern Rock Guitar Improvisation is a Book + CD + DVD package and is Jon's first book published by Mel Bay. Clicking the titles above will bring you to our online store.
Jon's Gear
Jon's currently using the following gear:
- Ibanez S and S-Classic guitars
- Ernie Ball strings
- Seymour Duncan pickups
- Laney Amplifiers
- Lexicon outboard gear
For an in-depth description of Jon's personal setup, please check back at a later date.