The Modern Guitar Mentorship

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His approach to chord changes and getting chord tones into your playing makes for a very enjoyable process. My lessons have skyrocketed my playing. If you want to get better, you're in the right place.

George Blecher

The first time I've been able to understand theory with respect to the guitar rather than the piano. Advancing as a musician is actually possible. Commit to lessons with him. It's worth it.

Ethan Darla

Concision at its finest. His emphasis on fundamentals as a gateway to fretboard literacy let me use prior harmonic knowledge to negotiate new material. A guitar shaman.

Joshua Reyes

Meet Varad.

A Los Angeles jazz guitarist, composer, and educator whose playing bridges jazz, experimental improvisation, and his Indian heritage. He moved from Pune to the US at 18 to study jazz, and spent years stuck at the exact plateau this page describes. Until he changed what he practiced, not how much.

Shared the stage with Stanley Clarke, Jason Moran, John Beasley, Ernie Watts and more. Trained at CSU Northridge, B.M. Jazz Performance. Herb Alpert and JEXA emerging-artist awards.