Learn to Play Guitar With Mark Dziuba
Mark Dziuba is an accomplished Blues and Jazz guitar player and a motivating teacher, too. In his guitar lessons, he'll show you the finer points of Blues and Jazz, along with the necessary basics.

Mark's Blues guitar lessons at the intermediate level discuss the heart of the shuffle, incl. minor-key shuffle, the eight-bar form in the style of "The Thrill Is Gone," "They Call It Stormy Monday", and 4th-string root 9th chords and the Charleston rhythm.

His Jazz guitar lessons, also at the intermediate level, teach you the tools of improvisation. You'll learn major, minor, and dominant arpeggios, and how to play Swing comping patterns. Mark will explain the anatomy of a lick, the use of target tones and neighbor tones, how to harmonize a melody, and diatonic chord extensions. Learn the harmonic minor scale and the melodic minor scale with fingerings, and understand upper and lower neighbor tones and drop 2 voicings. Practice intros, turnarounds, and endings.

Preview Mark's lessons.

recordings: Trio Loco, Live at the Deep Listening Space 2002
Separated at Birth (Mark Dziuba/Adam Levy) 1998
Son of Kramdon 1996
Up Until Now 1994

When he's not in the classroom as Director of Jazz Studies at SUNY New Paltz, or teaching privately, or spending summers as a veteran NGW faculty member, you're sure to find Mark making music somewhere else. It's been said that Mark's playing inspires "you to spell Jazz with three" z's instead of two"(Poughkeepsie Journal, Feb. 20, 2003). His gig calendar is full playing in Trio Loco (which sometimes turns Duo Loco), Dziubalicious, or as a guest with various other top jazz musicians. Mark also finds time to write and record original music.

WorkshopLive interview with Mark Dziuba, coming soon...

Started: Age 14 in 1975
Education: BM,MM, Berklee College of Music, North Texas University, University of Illinois.
Styles: All styles of music
Instruments: Guitar, bass