Hello From Olympia, Wa

Hi there,

my name is Jason and I am really excited to be here. I have played guitar for 22 years, and have studied with a jazz teacher for the last 14 years. I started playing guitar when I was fifteen, and my first teacher taught me songs I wanted to learn: The Who, Led Zeppelin, Boston, Clapton, AC/DC.

i learned some solos and chords, but never the skills to shred.

Even now in my jazz studies, i struggle with fluidly improvising. I can read standard notation and can play beautiful chord melodies, but my solos fall short.

I teach guitar full time, and a lot of my students want to rock out. I have a few songs I can teach them, but I have mostly stuck to traditional note reading technique which a lot of my students struggle with.

I was really excited to discover Kris's GuitarMaster Class.

I have played around with some of the ideas and am finding new inspiration.

I took the name Rusty Strings because it comes from one of my favorite Grateful Dead songs:

"dust off those rusty strings just one more time......

gonna make 'em shine!"

glad to be here, and hope to get to know some of you.

Jason