Jean Marc Belkadi
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Jean Marc Belkadi is a French born, American Jazz Fusion
Guitarist
. He is known for his prolific improvisational soloing technique. Many famous professional guitarists have studied with him and he is fast becoming "like his mentor, the late, great guitar genius Ted Greene
," a reference in the world of Guitar Instruction.
, Scott Henderson
, Joe Pass
, Joe Diorio
, Tal Farlow
, and Robben Ford
at the Musicians Institute
in 1985. The Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) class of 1985 had notable alumni such as Jeff Buckley
and Paul Gilbert
. He instructed at the school (GIT) from 1998 to 2007 and at the Los Angeles Music Academy College of Music (LAMA) from 1996 to 2000.
Belkadi has recorded a CD, "Stopover", and written 11 instructional book/CD sets published by Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press.
In 2011, he released his first digital E-book with 60 MP3 audio tracks: The Composite Blues Scale for Electric Guitar.
and painter Marie Christine Belkadi. She edited and designed Belkadi's instructional books and CDs.
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
Guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
. He is known for his prolific improvisational soloing technique. Many famous professional guitarists have studied with him and he is fast becoming "like his mentor, the late, great guitar genius Ted Greene
Ted Greene
Theodore "Ted" Greene was an American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, music columnist, and music educator active in Encino, California.-Early Days:...
," a reference in the world of Guitar Instruction.
Career
Belkadi studied with Frank GambaleFrank Gambale
Frank Gambale is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist. He has released eleven studio albums over a period of more than two decades, and is renowned for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques.-Recording career:...
, Scott Henderson
Scott Henderson
Scott Henderson is a fusion and blues guitarist best known for his work with the band Tribal Tech.-Early days:Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Henderson began playing guitar at an early age...
, Joe Pass
Joe Pass
Joe Pass was an Italian-American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century...
, Joe Diorio
Joe Diorio
Joseph Louis Diorio is an American jazz guitarist. He has performed with legends of jazz like Sonny Stitt, Eddie Harris, Ira Sullivan, Stan Getz, Pat Metheny, Horace Silver, and Freddie Hubbard...
, Tal Farlow
Tal Farlow
Talmage Holt Farlow was an American jazz guitarist. Nicknamed the "Octopus", Farlow's extremely large hands spread over the fretboard as if they were tentacles. He is considered one of the all-time great jazz guitarists. Michael G...
, and Robben Ford
Robben Ford
Robben Ford is an American blues, jazz and rock guitarist.-Biography:Ford was born in Woodlake, California, United States, but raised in Ukiah, California, and began playing the saxophone at age 10, picking up the guitar at age 13...
at the Musicians Institute
Musicians Institute
Musicians Institute is a privately owned for-profit music vocational school located in Hollywood, California. Although not a regionally accredited school, the school offers a variety of unaccredited Bachelor Degree, Associate Degree and Certificate programs in fields including contemporary music...
in 1985. The Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) class of 1985 had notable alumni such as Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...
and Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American guitarist. He is well known for his technical guitar work with Racer X and Mr...
. He instructed at the school (GIT) from 1998 to 2007 and at the Los Angeles Music Academy College of Music (LAMA) from 1996 to 2000.
Belkadi has recorded a CD, "Stopover", and written 11 instructional book/CD sets published by Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press.
In 2011, he released his first digital E-book with 60 MP3 audio tracks: The Composite Blues Scale for Electric Guitar.
Notable students
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- Dweezil ZappaDweezil ZappaDweezil Zappa is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor.-Early life:Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician Frank Zappa and Adelaide Gail Sloatman, who worked in business. He is the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon, younger sister Diva and younger...
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- Chris TraynorChris TraynorChris Traynor is an American guitarist, bassist and studio musician. He has played with Orange 9mm, Helmet, Bush, Rival Schools and Gavin Rossdale....
- OrianthiOrianthiOrianthi Panagaris , better known simply as Orianthi, is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist. She is perhaps best known for being Michael Jackson's lead guitarist for his ill-fated This Is It concert series. Her debut single "According to You" has peaked at No. 3 in Japan, No. 8...
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- Robert HarmonRobert HarmonRobert Harmon is an American film and television director. He is best known for the 1986 horror classic The Hitcher, starring Rutger Hauer, as well as for films like They and Nowhere to Run....
- Joe HolmesJoe HolmesJoe Holmes is a Heavy metal guitarist. Born in New Jersey, he took lessons from guitarist Randy Rhoads in 1979. Holmes formed the L.A based band called Terriff in 1983. Holmes left Terriff to join Lizzy Borden in 1987...
- Paul DoucettePaul DoucettePaul John Doucette is the rhythm guitarist and former drummer for the band Matchbox Twenty. A native of North Huntington, Pennsylvania – a suburb located roughly 15 miles SE of Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County – Doucette graduated from Norwin High School in June 1990. He now lives in...
- Rafael MoreiraRafael MoreiraRafael Moreira is a Brazilian-American guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead guitarist / vocalist on the hit CBS television shows Rock Star: INXS and Rock Star: Supernova, and most recently on MTV'S Rock the Cradle...
- Dory LobelDory LobelDory Lobel is an American musician, songwriter, composer and producer who has performed and worked with numerous musical artists including Jesse McCartney, The Backstreet Boys and Enrique Iglesias.-Career:...
- Zane Carney
- Justin Derrico
- Joel Whitley
- Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
- Cassandra Delaney
- Prince Constantine-Alexios of Greece and Denmark
- Claude ChiracClaude ChiracClaude Chirac, , younger daughter of French president Jacques Chirac, has been her father's personal advisor since 1994.She has been involved with French judoka Thierry Rey, who is the father of her son Martin Rey-Chirac....
's son Martin - Michèle LaroqueMichèle LaroqueMichèle Laroque is a French actress, comedian and humorist, who has appeared in almost 60 film and television productions since 1988.She was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France...
's daughter Oriane - Michael LandonMichael LandonMichael Landon was an American actor, writer, director, and producer. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza , Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie , and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven...
's son Sean - Sela WardSela WardSela Ann Ward is an American movie and television actress, perhaps best known for her television roles as Teddy Reed on the American TV series Sisters and as Lily Manning on Once and Again...
's son Austin - Evan Stanley
- Cecilia PeckCecilia PeckCecilia Peck is a film producer, director, and actress. Cecilia is the daughter of actor Gregory Peck and his second wife Veronique Passani.-Personal life:...
's son Harper - Chip RosenbloomChip RosenbloomDale "Chip" Rosenbloom, the son of Carroll Rosenbloom and Georgia Frontiere, is part owner of the St. Louis Rams alongside his sister Lucia Rodriguez, which they inherited from their mother...
's son Alex - Natalie MainesNatalie MainesNatalie Louise Maines Pasdar is an American singer-songwriter who achieved success as the lead vocalist for the female alternative country band, the Dixie Chicks...
's son Slade - Brian Chiusano guitarist/musical director for OrianthiOrianthiOrianthi Panagaris , better known simply as Orianthi, is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist. She is perhaps best known for being Michael Jackson's lead guitarist for his ill-fated This Is It concert series. Her debut single "According to You" has peaked at No. 3 in Japan, No. 8...
and Bohème
Instructional book/CD sets
- 1997: A Modern Approach to Jazz, Rock & Fusion - Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press
- 1997: The Diminished Scale for Guitar - Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press
- 1999: Advanced Scale Concepts & Licks for Guitar - Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press
- 2000: Jazz-Rock Triad Improvising for Guitar - Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press
- 2001: Slap & Pop Technique for Guitar - Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press
- 2002: Outside Guitar Licks - Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press
- 2003: Progressive Tapping Licks - Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press
- 2004: Classical Themes for Electric Guitar - Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press
- 2005: Ethnic Rhythms for Electric Guitar - Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press
- 2005: Exotic Scales & Licks for Electric Guitar - Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press
- 2006: Technique Exercises for Guitar - Hal Leonard Corporation / Musicians Institute Press
- 2011: The Composite Blues Scale for Electric Guitar - Belkadi Publications - E-book
Personal life
Belkadi is married to graphic designerGraphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...
and painter Marie Christine Belkadi. She edited and designed Belkadi's instructional books and CDs.
External links
- Jean Marc Belkadi official website
- Jean Marc Belkadi at the Hal Leonard Corporation
- Jean Marc Belkadi at Amazon.comAmazon.comAmazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
- Jean Marc Belkadi at the Musicians InstituteMusicians InstituteMusicians Institute is a privately owned for-profit music vocational school located in Hollywood, California. Although not a regionally accredited school, the school offers a variety of unaccredited Bachelor Degree, Associate Degree and Certificate programs in fields including contemporary music...
- Jean Marc Belkadi at iTunesITunesiTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
- Jean Marc Belkadi at MyEbookMaster