Jtc

'Every Guitar Hero Needs a Ballad'. That is what our co-founder Jan Cyrka said when we decided to create our first ever JTC original full length album. Vai, Satriani, you name them…they have one! So we spoke to a number of the artists on our glittering roster and asked them to compose their ultimate ballad. The result is a powerful album that is full of pure emotion and drive and takes you on a journey through the minds of 11 incredibly talented guitar players and composers.

JTC is incredibly proud to bring you this hotly anticipated JTC release from the up and coming artist Mateus Asato! Mateus has shocked and astounded us with his super melodic, fresh and inspiring approach to modern guitar playing . Using his trademark stylistic combination of fingerstyle, double-stops, smooth melodies and bending, Mateus has created 20 licks that will push the musical boundaries of your playing.

Top recording artist, educator, composer and monster jazz guitarist Sheryl Bailey dug wide and deep into the bebop soundscape to select the lines and approaches that comprise this essential vocabulary of bebop phrases. You’ll learn lines inspired by bebop giants such as Charlie Parker, Joe Viola, Joe Pass, John Coltrane, Pat Martino, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderley, Mike Stern, Dizzy Gillespie, Peter Bernstein and so many more.

If you are a fusion player then you need to be able to nail playing to a IV-V-I minor progression as a matter of cause! And this superb 20 licks series has all the ingredients to ensure that you are on top of this essential part of playing fusion!

JTC is very pleased to welcome Chris Mike to the incredible line-up of the JTC artist roster! Chris has really hit the ground running with this creative and inspiring new take on melodic Rock guitar lines. By incorporating plenty of emotion and style into these powerful and inventive Rock licks, Chris has left you with 20 real-life applicable soloing ideas that will kick your rock solos up a notch and give you fresh, new ideas that you can use straight out of the box.

Introducing new JTC artist Rabea Massaad to the family! And what a way to join us…his debut 20 licks series is a killer product! For starters these licks are very accessible, full of technique and ideas that you can certianly use in your own playing. And secondly, it's a wicked backing track, perfect for jamming over!

New JTC artist Luca Mantovanelli plays a MultiAmp in his first JTC pack and he has definitely hit the ground running! This pack is going to show you exactly how to navigate the most essential of chord progressions (the II-V-I) like an absolute pro! Why is the II-V-I an essential progression? Firstly it's the most widely used progression in Jazz, and appears in Pop and Rock tunes the world over, but it also contains the three most common chord types, a Maj7 chord, a Min7 chord and a dominant chord and learning to solo over these chord types might just be the most important lesson you can learn.