Influences


Scott Henderson

I love Scott's playing and writing. Fusion and blues guitarist best known for his work with the band Tribal Tech. Scott also played and recorded with Jean-Luc Ponty, Jeff Berlin, Joe Zawinul and Chick Corea's Elektric Band.

Jeff Kollman

Best known for his work with Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, Glenn Hughes, UFO offshoot Mogg/Way, progressive rock trio, Cosmosquad, and his 90s progressive metal band, Edwin Dare.

Michael Landau

Landau is a prolific session musician and guitarist who has played on over 1,100 albums since the early 1980's

Steve Morse

Best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs; and since 1994, the guitar player of Deep Purple. Morse's career has encompassed rock, country, funk, jazz, classical, and fusion.

Ty Tabor

Guitarist songwriter and co-lead vocalist for the progressive metal band, King's X

Oz Noy

Oz is a fusion guitarist. His compositions and style use a mixture of funk, rock, blues, and jazz.

Allan Holdsworth

A jazz/fusion guitarist acclaimed for the complexity of his compositional and improvisational work, as well as his astounding technical skill.

Derek Trucks

Guitarist, songwriter, and founder of the Grammy Award-winning The Derek Trucks Band. He became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1999.

John Scofield

Possessor of a very distinctive sound and stylistic diversity, a masterful jazz improviser whose music falls somewhere between post-bop, funk edged jazz, and R & B.

Jeff Beck

One of the most influential lead guitarists in rock. Much of Beck's recorded output has been instrumental, with a focus on innovative sound and his releases have spanned genres ranging from blues-rock to jazz fusion.

James Taylor

Singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

Animals As Leaders

Instrumental progressive metal band.

Periphery

Grammy-nominated American progressive metal band.

Between The Buried and Me

Prog Metal band.

Pat Martino

One of the most original of the jazz-based guitarists to emerge in the 1960s. I studied with Pat for a short time.

Chris Potter

Soloist, accomplished composer and bandleader. Think Bird, Lester Young and Sonny Rollins with more contemporary harmonic and rhythmic concepts and you get Chris Potter.

Wayne Shorter

Wayne has recorded Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the late 1950s, Miles Davis second great quintet in the 1960s and the jazz-rock fusion band Weather Report, which Shorter co-led in the 1970s. Many of his compositions have become standards.

Scott Henderson

I love Scott's playing and writing. Fusion and blues guitarist best known for his work with the band Tribal Tech. Scott also played and recorded with Jean-Luc Ponty, Jeff Berlin, Joe Zawinul and Chick Corea's Elektric Band.

Michael Landau

Landau is a prolific session musician and guitarist who has played on over 1,100 albums since the early 1980s.

Jeff Kollman

Best known for his work with Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, Glenn Hughes, UFO offshoot Mogg/Way, progressive rock trio, Cosmosquad, and his 90s progressive metal band, Edwin Dare.

Ty Tabor

Guitarist songwriter and co-lead vocalist for the progressive metal band, King's X

Steve Morse

Best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs; and since 1994, the guitar player of Deep Purple. Morse's career has encompassed rock, country, funk, jazz, classical, and fusion.

John Scofield

Possessor of a very distinctive sound and stylistic diversity, a masterful jazz improviser whose music falls somewhere between post-bop, funk edged jazz, and R & B.

Oz Noy

Oz is a fusion guitarist. His compositions and style use a mixture of funk, rock, blues, and jazz.

Allan Holdsworth
A jazz/fusion guitarist acclaimed for the complexity of his compositional and improvisational work, as well as his astounding technical skill.

Jeff Beck

One of the most influential lead guitarists in rock. Much of Beck's recorded output has been instrumental, with a focus on innovative sound and his releases have spanned genres ranging from blues-rock to jazz fusion.

Derek Trucks

Guitarist, songwriter, and founder of the Grammy Award-winning The Derek Trucks Band. He became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1999.

Animals As Leaders

Instrumental progressive metal band.

Periphery

Grammy-nominated American progressive metal band.

Between The Buried and Me

Prog Metal band.

Pat Martino

One of the most original of the jazz-based guitarists to emerge in the 1960s. I studied with Pat for a short time.

Chris Potter

Soloist, accomplished composer and bandleader. Think Bird, Lester Young and Sonny Rollins with more contemporary harmonic and rhythmic concepts and you get Chris Potter.

Wayne Shorter

Wayne has recorded Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the late 1950s, Miles Davis second great quintet in the 1960s and the jazz-rock fusion band Weather Report, which Shorter co-led in the 1970s. Many of his compositions have become standards.