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Welcome to the Jazz Guitar studio at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ College of Music!​

This studio is led by Tim Wendel and includes BM, MM and DMA students. At all levels, students develop and maintain a solid foundation for all aspects of playing jazz guitar—including technique, ear training and the achievement of a full and personalized sound that reflects each student‘s musical journey. With this work comes the development of the student’s own knowledge of jazz guitar pedagogy. Through a personalized repertoire of jazz tunes, the studio explores all aspects of improvisation—including melodic, harmonic and rhythmic concepts. Emphasis is placed on developing an individual sound and diverse music styles are also incorporated, including blues, world music, funk and classical repertoire according to each student’s interests. Students will have a wide range of performance opportunities to implement all of these concepts and pursuits into practice.

Many great guitarists have visited the studio—including Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Ben Monder, Johnathon Kreisberg, Gilad Hekselman, Rez Abbasi, Brad Shepik and others.