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Recommended Instructional Videos

• Andy Summers: Guitar
• Eric Johnson: Total Electric Guitar
• Tuck Andress: Fingerstyle Mastery
• Johnny A: Taste, Tone, Space
• Greg Koch: Guitar Gristle
• Kiko Loureiro: Creative Fusion
• The Guitar Artistry of Bill Frisell

Recommended Instructional Books

• The Little Book of Chords for Guitar (pub. Amsco)
• Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar, Book 1 (Mickey Baker)
• Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar, Book 2 (Mickey Baker)
• Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (David Bayles & Ted Orland)
• Chords & Progressions for Jazz & Popular Guitar (Arnie Berle & Ronnie Ball)
• Theory & Harmony for the Contemporary Musician (Arnie Berle)
• Improvising Jazz Guitar (Joe Bell & Peter Pickow)
• Theory for the Contemporary Guitarist (Guy Capuzzo)
• Improvising Jazz (Jerry Coker)
• The Guitarist's Guide to Composing and Improvising (Jon Damian)
• Sight Reading for the Contemporary Guitarist (Tom Dempsey)
• The Jazz Guitar Experience (Tom Dempsey)
• A Guide to Chords, Scales and Arpeggios (Al Di Meola, Bob Aslanian)
• Intervallic Designs for Jazz Guitar (Joe Diorio)
• The Big Book of Jazz Guitar Improvisation (Mark Dzubia)
• Time Awareness (Peter Erskine)
• 30-Day Guitar Workout (Jody Fisher)
• Jazz Skills for Guitar (Jody Fisher)
• Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Beginning Jazz Guitar (Jody Fisher)
• Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Intermediate Jazz Guitar (Jody Fisher)
• Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Mastering Improvisation (Jody Fisher)
• Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Mastering Chord/Melody (Jody Fisher)
• The Art of Solo Guitar: Book 1 (Jody Fisher)
• The Art of Solo Guitar: Book 2 (Jody Fisher)
• Ear Training for the Contemporary Guitarist (Jody Fisher)
• Jazz Guitar Harmony (Jody Fisher)
• My Life with the Chord Chemist: A Memoir of Ted Greene, Apeothesis of Solo Guitar (Barbara Franklin)
• Essential Dictionary of Music Notation (Tom Gerou, Linda Lusk)
• The Advancing Guitarist (Mick Goodrick)
• Creative Chordal Harmony for Guitar (Mick Goodrick, Tim Miller)
• Hearing and Writing Music: Professional Training for Today's Musician (Ron Gorow)
• Jazz Guitar Technique (Andrew Green)
• Jazz Guitar Comping (Andrew Green)
• Jazz Guitar Structures (Andrew Green)
• Chord Chemistry (Ted Greene)
• Jazz Guitar Single Note Soloing, Volume 1 (Ted Greene)
• Jazz Guitar Single Note Soloing, Volume 2 (Ted Greene)
• Modern Chord Progressions (Ted Greene)
• The Guitar Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, Technique and Improvisation (Jesse Gress)
• Melody Chords for Guitar (Allan Holdsworth)
• Practical Theory for Guitar (Don Latarski)
• Moveable Chords (Don Latarski)
• Chord Orbits (Don Latarski)
• Chord Embellishments (Don Latarski)
• Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music, volume 1 (Gareth Loy)
• Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music, volume 2 (Gareth Loy)
• Linear Expressions (Pat Martino)
• The Listening Book (W. A. Mathieu)
• Harmonic Experience (W. A. Mathieu)
• Music Reading for Guitar: The Complete Method (David Oakes)
• Joe Pass Guitar Style (Joe Pass)
• Joe Pass Guitar Chords (Joe Pass)
• Jazz Composition: Theory and Practice (Ted Pease)
• Sight-Read Any Rhythm Instantly (Mark Phillips)
• Symmetric Solutions: The Whole Tone Workbook (Bruce Saunders)
• The Everything Music Theory Book (Marc Schonbrun)
• Hal Leonard Guitar Method: Jazz Guitar (Jeff Schroedl)
• Playing the Changes: Guitar: A Linear Approach to Improvising (Mitch Seidman, Paul Del Nero)
• The Everything Music Composition Book (Eric Starr)
• The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music, 2nd Ed. (Dave Stewart)
• Zen Guitar (Philip Toshio Sudo)
• Guitar Fretboard Workbook (Barrett Tagliarino)
• Voice Leading for Guitar: Moving Through the Changes (John Thomas)
• Guitar One Presents Studio City: Professional Session Recording for Guitarists (Carl Verheyen)
• Three-Note Voicings (Randy Vincent)
• Sight to Sound (Leon White)
• The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music (Victor Wooten)

Online Resources

• Blogs
  • The Jazz Guitar Blog
  • Innerviews - Music Without Borders
• Essays
  • Grateful Dead Guide
  • Critical Studies in Improvisation
• Forums
  • The Jazz Guitar Forum
• Mathematics
  • Musimathics - The Mathematical Foundations of Music
• Musicians
  • Greg V
  • Jeff Schmidt
  • Steve Lawson
• Portland
  • Jesse Reno
  • Stochastic Mettle Union
  • The Mercury Tree
  • PDXperimental
  • Radio Stumptown.net
  • PDX Jams.com
  • LCW on ReverbNation
  • David Lamkins on SoundCloud
• Sources
  • Internet Archive
• Tools
  • Fretboard Map (large)
  • Fretboard Map by String, plus Equal-Tempered Tuning
  • Equal-tempered Tuning for Guitar
  • Safe Exposure Times vs. SPL
  • Chord Voicings
  • LilyPond - Music notation for everyone
• Webcasting
  • International Standard Recording Code
  • ShoutCheap