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Explore expert lessons, eBooks, and courses from world-class guitarists like Ben Monder, Mimi Fox, Wolf Marshall, David Becker, John Stowell, and more — designed to help you improvise confidently, reharmonize creatively, and play guitar at the highest level.

First, grab your Free Advanced Guitar Mini-Course Featuring Ben Monder Now

 

  • Master Modern Harmony: Learn the exact techniques pros use to make your solos and chords richer.

  • Build Confidence in Improvisation: Play fluid, musical lines over standards and advanced progressions.

  • Access World-Class Guidance: Learn directly from top guitarists, with practical examples you can use immediately.

 

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How Modern Guitar Harmony Helps You

Master Modern Guitar Harmony in 3 Simple Steps

Step One:  Grab the Free Advanced Guitar Mini-Course and listen to which sounds resonate with you whether they are advanced triads, quartal harmony or polytonality etc.

Step Two: Dive Deeper into your favourite sounds with our ebooks and courses.  Taught by top-tier, working guitarists these resources will sharpen your skills and expand your harmonic vocabulary.

Step Three: Apply what you’ve learned to your own music — whether you’re composing, improvising, or reharmonizing standards – and unlock your creative potential.

Here’s What Guitarists Are Saying

“I bought this. Great course! Highly recommend!” – Nat J

“The course is concise yet comprehensive, well designed, and is excellent value” – Paul H

“I thoroughly enjoyed this great course which gives the keys for exploring great tools for jazz guitar counterpoint” – GDW

“Loved this course. Great to see how John modulates through tunes and the duets with John and Mike are worth the price of admission alone. Jazz at it’s finest” – Cormac O Caoimh

“Counterpoint for Solo Jazz Guitar is a really useful course. It does not stop at the exercises, there are explanations, a footnote with a link that leads to a youtube video with Ted Greene playing Autumn Leaves … Scarlatti pattern … pattern applied to Jazz Standards. You got something to work on, it’s money well spent!” – HM

What Guitarists Are Loving Right Now

 

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Counterpoint for Solo Jazz Guitar  (Best Selling Course): Practical application of counterpoint to jazz standards by Christian Miller
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Creative Harmonic Explorations with the Goodrick Almanacs: Creative composing using the Goodrick Almanacs. Features Ben Monder.
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Trinity Polytonality (Best Selling eBook): Sebastian Inverni uses interesting concepts and applies polytonality over jazz standards.
Ready to taste modern harmony? Grab the Free Advanced Guitar Mini-Course now and start unlocking your sound.

Your Results

Through working with Modern Guitar Harmony your end results will include;

  • “Creating rich, modern voicings instantly.”
  • “Composing and improvising with these voicings.”
  • “An improved musical ear.”
  • “Stronger reharmonization skills.”
  • “Play more expressive solo guitar.”
  • “Sounding like your unique self.”
  • “Playing with more confidence.”
  • “Surprising your friends with new sounds.”
  • “Many more benefits!!!”

Read: How the Ultimate Guitar Accelerator Program Will Transform Your Playing

Modern Guitar Harmony can be found in the following places;

MGH Contributors

Christian Miller

Gilbert Isbin

Jamie Taylor

Kenny Thompson

MGH Interviews

Ant Law – The Unified Theories Interview Part 1

Ben Monder Interviewed by Mick Wright

Ben Monder “Planetarium” Interview by Mick Wright

Johannes Haage Interviewed by Mick Wright Nov 24

Johannes Haage “Voice Motion” Interview by Mick Wright

Randy Roos Interviewed by Mick Wright – Part 1

Randy Roos Interviewed by Mick Wright – Part 2

Stelios Mihas “9 Early Pieces Mick Goodrick” Interviewed by Mick Wright

Wolfgang Muthspiel Interviewed by Mick Wright

Short Stories for Modern Times

Short Stories are small compositions crafted from the cycles in the Goodrick Almanacs (Now available for FREE here).

These compositions don’t just follow the whole cycle as the pieces can change key, add melody and chromatic notes, involve counterpoint and much more. Enjoy these little soundscapes!!

Short Story #1 – Spread 3 Part Fourth Cycles (Marc Rum)

Short Story #2 – Closed 3 Part Fourth Modulating Cycles (Marc Rum ) – Favourite

Short Story #3 – Harmonic Minor Cycle 4 (Marc Rum)

Short Story #4 – Bass Line Movement in Harmonic Minor (Marc Rum)

Short Story #5 – Spread Quartal Harmony Cycles 2 & 6 (Marc Rum)

Short Story #6 – Harmonic Minor Cycle 6 (Marc Rum)

Short Story #7 – Major Scale Quartal Harmony Cycle 2 (Marc Rum)

Short Story #8 – Spread Triads in C Major Cycle 2 (Marc Rum)

Short Story #9 – Spread Triads in C Major Cycle 2 (Marco Giussani)

Short Story #10 – Melodic Minor Spread Triads Cycle 2 (Marco Giussani)

Short Story #11 – 3:2 Polyrhythm in C Melodic Minor Closed Triads (Marc Rum)

Short Story #12 – Harmonic Minor Closed Triads Cycle 2 (Marc Rum)

Short Story #13 – Harmonic Minor Spread Triads Cycle 2 (Marco Giussani)

Short Story #14 – Gelatinous Martian Creatures (Using Concepts from Generic Modality Compression( (Marc Rum)

Short Story #15 – Improv in Melodic and Harmonic Minor using Spread Triads (Marc Rum)

Short Story #16 – Major Spread Triads Cycle 4 (Marc Rum)

Short Story #17 – 2 Inversions Of Each Chord Before Moving to The Next Chord – Major Cycle 4 (Marc Rum)

Short Story #18 – Prelude in C Major Spread Triads Cycle 4 (Marco Giussani)

Short Story #19 – “Monderisms” – Harmonic Minor Cycle 4 (Marc Rum)

Short Story #20 – Switching Between 2 Keys With Open and Closed Melodic Minor Triads (Marco Giussani)

Short Story #22 – Tupacem “Lydian Cluster Triads” (Recording Marc Rum)

Short Story #23 – Solo Guitar “Hungarian Minor” (Marc Rum)

Short Story #24 – Random Cycles Etude (Marc Rum)

Short Story #25 – Alien Conversation in Hungarian Minor (Marc Rum)

Practical Talk

Ant Law – The Unified Theories Interviews and More!

Christian Miller – Counterpoint for Solo Jazz Guitar

Contrapuntal Guitar: Going Beyond Species Counterpoint

Counterpoint for Solo Jazz Guitar

Guitar Harmony Basics with Tom Lippincott

How To Use The Mick Goodrick Almanacs

Jack Pezanelli’s Triads Over Bass Notes for Non-Functional Reharmonization

Jingle Bells using Back Cycling Triads, Contrary Motion etc

Guitar Music Theory 101

Mick Goodrick Almanac Course

Polytonality for Jazz Guitar with Trinity Tonal – A New Path for Jazz Guitarists

Tribute to Mick Goodrick by Tom Lippincott (and Lesson)

Voice Motion by Johannes Haage Book Review

MGH Philosophy

13 Steps to Musical Integration

Embrace Your Originality and Uniqueness on Your Guitar

Gear Talk

Harley Benton R-458 FFB Multiscale Guitar Review

How Do I Get a Great Tone From My Player Telecaster?

Bite Size Life

Bite Size Guitar Theory Lessons

Guitar Theory Lesson 1 – The Musical Alphabet (Blog and Youtube Vid)

General Articles

10 Top Guitarists Pay Tribute to Mick Goodrick

MGH Guitarists to Watch

Stelios Mihas and Mick Goodrick’s 9 Early Pieces

Mikko Hilden – MGH Guitarist of the Month – April 2024

Barry McCormack – MGH Guitarist of the Month – March 2024

Az Samad – MGH Guitarist of the Month – February 2024

Steve Herberman – MGH Guitarist of the Month – January 2024

Tom Lippincott – MGH Guitarist of the Month – December 2023

Christian Miller – MGH Guitarist of the Month – November 2023

Mike Papapavlou – MGH Guitarist of the Month – October 2023

Beth Marlis – MGH Guitarist of the Month – September 2023

Tim Mirth – MGH Guitarist of the Month – August 2023

Josh Workman – MGH Guitarist of the Month – July 2023

 

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