“His style draws from the best of the best of jazz guitar through the ages”: This in-depth tutorial inspired by the great Bruce Forman will expand your lick vocabulary and harmonic understanding, and boost your improv skills

A close-up of a man playing chords on a single-cut Gretsch semi-hollow electric guitar in Round-Up Orange.

Bruce Forman is a jazz guitar master, with a CV that includes time with jazz heavyweights such as Ray Brown and Bobby Hutchinson, soundtrack recordings on not one, but three movies directed by Clint Eastwood, and a steady stream of successful recordings as a bandleader to his name.

We should also acknowledge Forman’s hugely successful career as a teacher, with a significant online presence alongside his role as an acclaimed educator in residence at USC’s Studio/Jazz department.