Berklee Online Jazz Guitar|Review Vlog #1 

Off the top of my head, Stella By Starlight, Blues for Alice, Anthropology, What is this thing called love, tune up, Autumn Leaves, etc. As well as Jazz forms and etudes illustrating a scale sound or sub. This was between both Jazz Classes. At the end of the second you have to write your own tune with non-functional harmony

If you want some standards to kick off of I'd study Autumn Leaves, Billie's Bounce, Anthropology (or any other Rhythm Changes), Have You Met Miss Jones, and Giant Steps. Covers a lot of ground work for other tunes.

@@chrisbedwardmusic Perfect, thanks a lot!! I'll be following your channel!

Thanks for sharing your experience, I really appreciate it. I am considering the Berkeley online jazz guitar program and your video was exactly what I was looking for :) Just subscribed to your channel 👍

It’s been a few years so no idea if they changed some things around or if it’s hard to find on the site, but they had both a Jazz Guitar and just a Guitar program available.

Just took a look and there is still a Jazz Guitar program. Though don’t feel like you have to do this. You can also get a good teacher and work on a new standard every month. Many avenues you can take.

@@chrisbedwardmusic Did you take the Jazz Guitar Certificate Program? I was looking at Degree programs , maybe that’s why .

@@matthewinsco6993 yes it was the certificate program. Just remember if you do a certificate program and want the full degree later all your credits and grades will feed into the degree you’re after.

@@chrisbedwardmusic interesting, that’s helpful, thanks..… I am looking for a degree program, as a transfer student because I already have an associates degree…. I just wrote to them to see if I can take the jazz guitar courses for one of their online degree programs. They sound pretty cool after watching your video.

Hi Thomas -- I haven't taken that course yet, although I will in a few sessions, but I am pretty sure you need to take Guitar Scales 101 and Guitar Chords 101 as prerequisites, although I believe you can test out of it by either having someone evaluate you, but you'll need to confirm that.

I recently enrolled in the blues guitar course, and I am a pretty much beginner with no more than months of guitar experience, and haven't taken the gutar chord 101 and scale 101. I find it is just fine, you just have to work out the chord and scale thing yourself down the road. There are tons of materials about chords and scales online. However jazz guitar maybe more advanced than blues guitar, but if you just want to dive into that course directly just go for it, just put more effort it will be ok.

Not a problem. Well the term "sight reading" means to be able to read most things on the spot with no prior exposure versus being able to read music where usually you have prep time and can eventually turn the sheet music into reference. Berklee online at least did not push that in this curriculum though I'm sure there is plenty of courses covering that, that isn't guitar specific. Now I can read music, but I'm not a strong sight reader. Doesn't come up often for what I do, but if you feel you want to strengthen that you don't need school to do it.

@@chrisbedwardmusic Right; you're right I shouldn't have said sight reading, I should have said reading standard notation. Are there tabs in the program or is it all standard notation?

@@jfar3340 You get notation, tab and video/audio for all examples. It's a friendly program since all levels can join in up until a certain point. There's no trying out required.

I just finished that course a few months ago. You learn both. GREAT course!

@@boomerdell Which system do You use between those?

No. I use a PC and everything works fine.