Through the suggestion of Mark Stefani of VisionMusic and reinforced by Mark Levine in his book The Jazz Theory Book, I began to transcribe in 1998. I decided to tackle some Grant Green first, and then went on to explore Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and others. Although future projects of my own will certainly include many more of the above artists (plus a few non-guitarists), I am currently focusing primarily on tunes listed at Vision Music’s Jam Central Station. Transcriptions are always more useful and more fun to learn when you can practice them in context, and Mark’s well-written MIDI jam tunes provide a great way to do so. The nice thing about the tunes at Jam Central Station, is that they can be downloaded and altered using notation programs like Encore, Finale, and Sibelius (among others) allowing you to change the key and tempo. When needed, I am also constructing my own series of jam-MIDI's to accompany the tunes which are not supported at Jam Central Station, though they are not "sculpted" in the way that JCS tunes are. In any case, my personal jam-MIDI's are also downloadable and alterable. :-)

    Anyway...feel free to explore the up-to-date index of the work I and others (see below) have been engaged in recently. I try to include the MIDI files of each transcription so that the music can be learned by ear, if need be, but some contributions come sans MIDIs. If you have trouble with the MIDI, and require a plug-in, you can download one here.  For more information concerning the process of transcribing visit Vison Music's Coaches Corner.

   Take note of the links titled "buy CD" and "info". The "buy CD" links will take you to an Amazon.com or a Yahoo Shopping page where you can buy the compact disk from which the tune is transcribed. I highly suggest that you invest in the recordings when learning a new tune. Not only can you learn the tunes easier by having the recorded version on hand, but you can also help support this site by ordering through the links. The "info" links will take you to the All Music Guide entry for that particular album where you can learn more about the artist, the songlist, and other cool facts. If you experience any dead links please let me know, sometimes my web software does strange things. Thanks and enjoy!

Printing the Transcriptions: The transcriptions are in either GIF or JPEG graphic formats, and can be saved to disk and printed with any graphics program. To print directly from a browser, PC users should left click in the window containing the transcription before clicking the browser's Print button or use the upper left MSIE-supplied buttons. Mac users can simply click and hold for a menu.


John Abercrombie:

Howard Alden:

George Benson:

Jimmy Bruno:

Monty Budwig:

Kenny Burrell:

Larry Carlton:

John Coltrane:

Paul Desmond:

Tal Farlow:

Grant Green:

Johnny Griffin:

Jim Hall:

Barney Kessel:

John McLaughlin:

Pat Martino:

Pat Metheny:

Wes Montgomery:

Remo Palmieri:

Joe Pass:

Charlie Parker:

Babik Reinhardt:

Django Reinhardt:

Kurt Rosenwinkel:

John Scofield:

Jimmy Smith:

Mike Stern:

Louis Stewart:

Martin Taylor:

Ralph Towner:

Mark Whitfield: