Greg O'Rourke

Award winning Australian guitarist Greg O’Rourke received his Bachelor Of Music Honours degree in 2006, and was a scholarship holder at the Australian National University School Of Music. Over the years Greg has tackled numerous styles of guitar including rock, jazz, classical and has performed in many musical theatre productions, however Greg’s main specialities are acoustic fingerstyle, classical and jazz guitar. Greg’s versatile ability on the guitar is credit to several teachers he has studied with over the years, including Tim Kain, one of Australia’s leading classical guitar performers and teachers, as well as Mike Price and Don Andrews, well known performers and teachers in the Australian jazz guitar scene.

Greg has given prizewinning performances at the Australian National University Chamber Music Competition, and was awarded 1st prize in the Chamber Music division of the 2004 Australian International Guitar Competition.

Greg currently enjoys a busy career, comprising of teaching, performing and collaborations with other Australian artists.

Articles, Jazz Guitar Lessons

Best Jazz Guitar Songs To Learn

In this live session excerpt, Ryan and Greg discuss just which jazz songs and song forms to learn first for those who are early in their jazz guitar journey.

Utilizing the ’80/20 rule’, these tunes will teach you the common chord progressions, turnarounds and song forms to enable you to play thousands of other songs!

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