OZ NOY

He’s one of the most incisively inventive players working today, welding jazz to jagged blues with quicksilver deftness of touch. We join Oz for a rut-breaking lesson...

Words David Mead

Apart from being one of the most fearsomely talented jazz-fusion guitarists around, Oz Noy is also a dedicated teacher, having authored his own online guitar course – called Twisted Guitar – via the Musicians’ Institute in Hollywood, LA. As you will see from our published excerpts in the following pages, it’s not exactly for the faint of heart. The theory behind it is embedded in jazz, which, Oz insists, is the only way to shore up the walls of your musical knowledge base enough to handle anything the current music scene can throw your way. If you want to know the get-out-of-jail-free scales that will save your reputation from coming to harm at anywhere from the local open-mic jam to the world’s top studios, Oz has the answer. He’s also fairly…

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Guitarist (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2019

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