A guitarist since age six, Jon Finn has been a professional musician for most of his life. Joining the guitar faculty at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1988, he started the Jon Finn Group later that same year. To date, they have released three CDs internationally.
For over three years, Jon wrote a monthly instructional feature for a national magazine called Guitar. Jon has also authored several books for Mel Bay Publications.
In his freelance pursuits, he's played guitar for the national touring companies of many contemporary musical theater productions such as Rent, Aida, Mamma Mia, Grease, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Copacabana, and many others. Today Jon frequently performs and records with the Boston Pops Orchestra, and has been involved in a plethora of concerts and recording sessions, including 6 CDs (two of which were Grammy nominated), 8 US concert tours, and one tour in Asia.
Currently, Jon has four courses available on TrueFire: Modal Rock Soloing, Rock Improv Target Notes, Rhythm Lab: Rock and Funk and 30 Melodic Modal Licks You Must Know. In addition, Jon has recently added "Jon Finn's Electric Guitar Mastery Channel" to TrueFire's Collection of independently-produced Channels.
Look for more new music and courses from Jon soon!
Jon is a master and breaks the elements down very well - modal playing is something that confused me for a long long time - I remember quizzing my teacher at school and they couldn't answer the question well enough for me to understand. It wasn't until I was perusing the net during lockdown that somebody said try out Jon Finn's book - so I ordered the book, then found this site and immediately smashed through Jon's Modal Rock Soloing...great stuff and eat to understand and now I understand what now seems very simple....but having the demos made a world of difference....Cheers Jon!
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Brenda
10/19/21
A great guitarist and educator
Jon Finn is a great guitarist, with an exceptional technique, the sound that he is able to generate with the guitar makes you want to learn to play that way, he has a singularity in his style that reminds us of great guitarists, the speed, cleanliness and feeling can not be missing, having as an instructor a great guitarist is undoubtedly an opportunity that you can not miss, the content that he shows you can be a great help to improve your level.
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pschillerwein
05/20/19
It is like always...
... the notorious drill is left as an exercise to the reader. Nice approach. Probably i get some deeper understanding of modal improvisation after playing classical guitar for about 50 years 😎 The route is the goal (Yet another Zen saying). For advancing players i recommend reading Emilio Pujol’s „Escuela razonada de la guitarra: basada en los principos de la técnica de Tárrega; Buenos Aires: Ricordi Americana, 1954“ where the author describes/spells out any „playing situation“ he could imagine. Regards, Peter
