Steve Luciano

Guitar Specialist · 40+ years experience

Steve Luciano, the jazz expert, hails from New Haven, CT, where he studied guitar with legendary teacher Joe Tinari. Later on, he attended the University of Bridgeport, studying jazz with Sal Salvador. He was a founding member of the contemporary jazz group GrooveLogic, for which he wrote many compositions and recorded two CDs. Steve was the staff musician for Walt Disney World for more than 15 years and is currently a jazz guitar instructor at Southeastern University. Teaching music has been a way of life for him! Over the years, Steve has performed with numerous jazz icons, including Charles Erland, George Morrow, Danny Gottlieb, Peabo Bryson, and Brian McKnight. He appeared on the show "Jazz Here and Now" for WCEU Public Television in Daytona Beach, Florida, which also aired one of his original compositions. Steve has been part of the pit orchestra for "The Broadway Series" at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center in Orlando and the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. He also has to his credit Alfred Publishing's book, "Jazz Sounds for Guitar".

Genre Based Free Lessons

It's not easy to commit your hard earned money to a guitar lesson website without assurances that you will get the quality you're paying for. So, we have provided free demo lessons for you to check out, organized by genre, to make it easier for you. Fair warning: even these demos will leave you spoilt for choice.

2 Hours

28 Lessons

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Guitar Chords

In this series, our instructors demonstrate and explain chords for beginners, intermediate, as well as advanced guitar players - basic chords, rhythms and naming conventions, along with 7th chords , barre chords and shifting chord positions. You will learn different rhythm styles for playing chords and along with note divisions.

6.1 Hours

69 Lessons

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Guitar Scales

In this series, instructor Steve Luciano demonstrates the major scale and its different positions. Also, instructor Mike Walker demonstrates the pentatonic scale and goes deeper into the major scale and its different modes.

9 Hours

109 Lessons

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Jazz Guitar Lesson

In this jazz guitar lesson series, instructor Steve Luciano demonstrates the style of jazz. Here, you will learn basic jazz chords and progressions, along with jazz soloing concepts-common scales and modes used in jazz. Furthermore, Steve will discuss the ideas of modes and application in Jazz, followed by jazz songs based on chord melody.

10.3 Hours

106 Lessons

Taught by

Steve Luciano

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