About MeHi, I'm Marc-Andre
Seguin, jazz guitarist, composer and educator.
I build, edit and maintain JazzGuitarLessons.net to help other musicians. Here, guitarists can learn to play jazz and achieve greater levels of confidence and expression on this wonderful instrument. I started this website in January 2009 because I wanted to contribute (in my very own way) to jazz education. My goal is to help guitarists deal with the sometimes overwhelming task of playing jazz convincingly. Prior to building JazzGuitarLessons.net I studied  and taught rock,
classical and jazz music for more
than a decade. My main areas of studies are classical music,
jazz performance and composition.I graduated from University of Ottawa with a B.A. in music (the emphasis was on classical music history, theory, orchestration and repertoire). The city of Ottawa is wonderful for anything and everything that's related to classical music. Ottawa U and the NAC (National Arts Center) host world-class performers and teachers. The Ottawa area was also great for me because it allowed me to teach quite a lot while in University. I taught guitar roughly 5 or 6 years in Ottawa (mostly rock music to beginners and/or teenagers). I moved to Montreal, Quebec soon after my classical studies. I then graduated from  Concordia
University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (specializing in jazz studies).At Concordia I studied with some highly respected jazz musicians, namely : Chris McCann, Charles Ellison, Gary Schwartz, Dave Turner, Michael Berard and Andrew Homzy. I still live in Montreal and enjoy it very much. The jazz scene is very "happening" up here! So, after graduating with music degree twice (classical and jazz) and working as a professional jazz musician for a few years, I launched JazzGuitarLessons.net from my humble teaching studio.   A little Christmas 2008 Jam (left) and an optimistic me (right) at the very beginning of my jazz life in Montreal Why a website?I have a passion for teaching and I had the opportunity of sharing my knowledge with some great and hard-working students. I had the "sacred fire" for tutoring and helping other guitarists ever since I started playing.So, again : Why a website? I figured that the internet would reach much more musicians than I could ever dream of! I  liked the idea of publishing exercises, articles
and tunes (etc.) that are available 24/7, throughout the world! I was very excited about the whole concept so in the summer of 2008 I decided to write instructional articles for jazz guitar. I posted them on a bad website that had less traffic than an abandoned road... I finally found a friendly and logical way of uploading and sharing jazz guitar lessons on the web around Christmas 2008. It's called "Site Build it" and it works. [If you browse at the bottom of each page you'll see the logo.] As I'm writing these lines JazzGuitarLessons.net has a little more than 40 pages and its traffic is ever growing. I received positive feedback and suggestions from people all around the world! [January 2010 : over 100 pages and lots of traffic] Career Highlights
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2007. Nominated by professor Charles Ellison.
