Welcome! This website is dedicated entirely to my downloadable guitar video lessons. To check out my artist profile, bio, gigs, and booking information, etc. please click on this link to see my page at my booking agency: Great Lakes Performing Artists Associates.

There are a TON of lessons, prepare to scroll…! All lessons are available as downloads! I do not have an online store - Email me directly at jake.reichbart@gmail.com for all the info. If absolutely necessary I can offer DVDs shipped but only in the US. Again, please email me for all the info. Thanks!

General method lessons

1. How To Arrange Any Song For Solo Guitar, whatever song-specific lessons you intend to purchase, this unique 2-hour lesson will help you with any and all solo guitar arrangements, click here for a free sample: How To Arrange Any Song For Solo Guitar

2. An Introduction to Fingerstyle Guitar and solo guitar arranging, this brand new, 2020, monster lesson (two hours and 40 minutes) is the companion to the above “How to Arrange lesson”. While the former focuses heavily on harmony, this new lesson approaches the fingerstyle aspect in great depth with many examples and exercises. A PDF index/content for both lessons is available, just ask! Click right here for a lengthy free sample: An introduction to fingerstyle guitar and solo guitar arranging

3. The Jake Reichbart Guide to Chord Substitutions, another monster lesson running 2 hours and 45 minutes new for 2022! See lengthy sample here. Pretty much all the concepts I use are taught in great detail with song examples in these main 6 categories:

   • Color notes
   • Diatonic substitutions
   • Secondary dominants
   • 7th chords based off the diminished, altered and whole-tone scales
   • Slash chords
   • “Just do it”

4. Drop Chords For Guitar, Inversions and “Slot System”, The Complete Guide! Yet another massively informative 2 hour and 30 minute lesson, see lengthy excerpt here. In this lesson:

   • Chord properties: Quality, inversion and voicing
   • Closed voicings vs open voicings
   • From closed voicing to Drop 2
   • Drop 3, drop 2+3, drop 2+4
   • How to invert *anything" on the guitar, chords, non-chords or partial chords
   • The “Slot System” - from drop chords to *any* type of chord
   • How to practice
   • Musical examples

5. Lead electric blues guitar, 90 min., based on my guitar work on the accompanying CD to the Hal Leonard book Bass Grooves: The Ultimate Collection by Jon Liebman

6. Lead Jazz Guitar, The Art of Phrasing with Rhythmic Figures and Patterns. If you know scales, arpeggios and chords but somehow can’t quite seem to put together a satisfying solo, this video lesson will show you how. An hour and 20 minutes.Intermed/Adv.

7. A jazz harmony for the guitar, intermediate/advanced, in-depth study of “drop” chords, diminished harmony for 7th chords and much more!

Song-Specific arrangement lessons

In these lessons I go over the arrangements very slowly and in great closeup. The lessons are very informative and are designed not only to show what I do in any particular song, but also to show how I got there and how you can create your own, plus countless other tips and techniques. Each lesson may also go in depth into one or more unique topic that make a particular arrangement stand out. Most of the lessons are also beautifully produced in widescreen, the most recent in HD. The list below is hyper-linked, Click on the the lesson title in gold to see the performance video to which the DVD relates.

Here are some free lesson samples

• As, Stevie Wonder, Sample
• How High The Moon, Solo jazz guitar lesson, how to play bebop lines, chord substitutions, walking bass and more!
• Still Crazy After All These Years, sample
• You Are The Sunshine Of My Life, sample
• Wichita Lineman, lesson sample
• Fingerstyle guitar arrangement - “Nuages”
• Solo fingerstyle pop and jazz guitar - excerpts from three arrangements

Available titles

There are a TON of them, make sure to scroll all the way down and to click on the song title in gold to see my YouTube performances of the songs, the text is hyperlinked. The titles below are arranged in categories, some artists have their own, such as the Beatles or Steely Dan, others are listed in a general style category, i.e. Classic Rock or R&B/Soul, Bossa Nova, etc. Again, click right on the titles to see the YouTube performance videos:

Stevie Wonder

• Creepin’ an hour and 20 minutes
• Lately, This title also comes with a 15 minute segment showing chord substitutions for Stella By Starlight
• Bird of Beauty, one hour and 15 minutes
• My Cherie Amour, Widescreen, one hour and 15 minutes, Widescreen
• Isn’t She Lovely, Widescreen, an hour and 40 minutes
• Too High, Widescreen, an hour and 40 minutes
• For Once in My Life, widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• You Are The Sunshine Of My Life, an hour and 30 minutes, HD
• As, one hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Overjoyed, one hour and 35 minutes, HD
• That Girl, one hour and 5 minutes, HD
• Do I Do, one hour and 10 minutes, HD
• Boogie On Reggae Woman, one hour, HD
• I Wish, one hour and 15 minutes, HD

Beatles+

• With a Little Help From My Friends, 90 minutes
• Come Together, widescreen, an hour and 10 minutes
• Something, George Harrison, Widescreen, an hour and 25 minutes
• And I Love Her,  Widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• Here, There and Everywhere, widescreen an hour and 45 minutes
• In My Life, widescreen, an hour and 40 minutes
• Another Day, Paul McCartney, Widescreen, an hour and 35 minutes
• Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey, Paul McCartney, widescreen, one hour and 50 minutes
• Let ‘Em In, Paul McCartney & Wings, Widescreen, an hour and 15 minutes
• Live and Let Die, Paul McCartney, an hour and 35 minutes, HD
• Band on the Run, Paul McCartney, one hour and 30 minutes, HD
• Let it Be, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• #9 Dream, John Lennon, one hour and 30 minutes, HD
• Maybe I’m amazed, Paul McCartney, an hour and 35 minutes, HD

Steely Dan+

• Maxine, Donald Fagen, 2 hours!
• I.G.Y., Donald Fagen, Widescreen, an hour and 40 minutes
• New Frontier, Donald Fagen, Widescreen, an hour and 40 minutes
• Deacon Blues , 2 hours!
• Babylon Sisters, two hours!
• Hey Nineteen, an hour and 20 minutes, Widescreen
• Third world Man, one hour and 25 minutes, Widescreen
• Kid Charlemagne, Widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• Gaucho, widescreen, TWO HOURS!
• Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, Steely Dan, widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• Peg, widescreen, an hour and 15 minutes
• The Caves of Altamira, widescreen, an hour and 25 minutes
• The Fez, one hour and 10 minutes, HD
• Doctor Wu, one hour and 40 minutes, HD
• Aja, two (2!) full hours!! HD
• Walk between Raindrops, Donald Fagen, one hour and 40 minutes, HD
• The Goodbye Look, Donald Fagen, one hour and 45 minutes, HD
• Pearl of the Quarter, one hour, HD
• Glamour Profession, one hour and 45 minutes, HD
• Green Earrings, one hour, HD
• Home At Last, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• Pretzel Logic, one hour, HD
• Daddy Don’t Live In That New York City No More, one hour and 5 minutes, HD
• With a Gun, one hour and 5 minutes, HD
• The Nightfly, one hour and 40 minutes, HD

Sinatra/Fitzgerald/Bennet/Bacharach+

• Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me, one hour and 20 minutes
• Witchcraft, Widescreen, an hour and 25 minutes
• Over the Rainbow, Widescreen, an hour and 35 minutes
• The Way You Look Tonight, widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most, widescreen, TWO HOURS!
• Cheek to Cheek, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald… widescreen, an hour and 45 minutes
• I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Tony Bennett, widescreen, TWO HOURS!
• Moonlight Serenade , Glenn Miller, widescreen, an hour and 45 minutes
• Unforgettable, Nat King Cole, widescreen, 2 hours and 15 minutes
• How High the Moon, Les Paul, Ella Fitzgerald, widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• Beyond the Sea, Bobby Darin, widescreen, and hour and 35 minutes
• Fly Me to the Moon, widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• As Time Goes By, widescreen, an hour and 25 minutes
• Strangers in the Night, an hour and 20 minutes, HD
• The Look of Love, Burt Bacharach, widescreen, an hour and 35 minutes
• I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, widescreen, an hour and 25 minutes
• What the World Needs Now, Burt Bacharach, one hour and 20 minutes
• The Things We Did Last Summer, one hour and 35 minutes
• Stars Fell on Alabama, one hour and 25 minutes HD
• A Foggy Day, one hour and 10 minutes HD
• I’ve Got You Under My Skin, one hour and 35 minutes HD

Straight ahead Jazz

• Moonlight in Vermont, an hour and 40 minutes
• Taking A Chance On Love, an hour and 35 minutes
• Blues in G, 80 minutes, learn how to play the blues for solo guitar in the style of Joe Pass!
• Emily, Chord substitutions, lead, bass lines… 80 minutes, Widescreen
• Blue In Green - one hour and 35 minutes
• All The Things You Are - an hour and 20 minutes, Widescreen
• Nuages, Django Reinhardt, Widescreen, an hour and 20 minutes
• Joy Spring, Clifford Brown, Widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• Whisper Not, Benny Golson, widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• Django, Modern Jazz Quartet, John Lewis, widescreen, an hour and 40 minutes
• Spain, Chick Corea, one hour and 30 minutes, HD
• Autumn Leaves, (“must know” standard!) an hour and 30 minutes, HD
• My Favorite Things, John Coltrane, one hour and 45 minutes, HD
• Country, Keith Jarrett, one hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Nica’s Dream, Horace silver, one hour and 25 minutes, HD
• I Remember Clifford, Benny Golson, one hour and 20 minutes, HD
• St. Thomas, Sonny Rollins, one hour and 30 minutes, HD
• You’re Everything, Chick Corea, one hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Darn That Dream, one hour and 35 minutes, HD
• In a Mellow Tone, one hour and 20 minutes, HD
• Puttin’ On the Ritz, one hour and 20 minutes, HD
• After You’ve Gone, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• Theme from the Odd Couple, one hour and 30 minutes, HD

Bossa/Latin

• Mas Que Nada, Jorge Ben, Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66, widescreen, an hour and 35 minutes
• Agua De Beber, Jobim, widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• Wave, Antonio Carlos Jobim, widescreen, and hour and 45 minutes
• Desafinado, Antonio Carlos Jobim, widescreen, two hours and 15 minutes!!
• Corcovado, Antonio Carlos Jobim, widescreen, and hour and 35 minutes
• The Girl From Ipanema, Jobim, widescreen, an hour and 55 minutes
• The Shadow of Your Smile, Widescreen, an hour and 40 minutes
• One Note Samba, Jobim, widescreen, and hour and 20 minutes
• Black Orpheus, Luiz Bonfa, widescreen TWO HOURS!
• Waters of March, Jobim, one hour and 25 minutes, HD

Pat Metheny

• Every Summer Night by Pat Metheny, 1 hour and 50 minutes
• So May It Secretly Begin, Pat Metheny, Widescreen
• Travels, Pat Metheny Group, Widescreen, an hour and 10 minutes
• Dream Of The Return, Pat Metheny Group, Widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• James, Pat Metheny, Widescreen, an hour and 55 minutes
• It’s Just Talk, Pat Metheny, one hour and 30 minutes
• Slip Away, one hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Follow Me, one hour and 10 minutes, HD
• Last Train Home, one hour and 5 minutes, HD, free lesson sample here

Classic Rock

• Us and Them, Pink Floyd, one hour and 10 minutes
• The Wind Cries Mary, one hour and 30 minutes
• Change The World, Eric Clapton, one hour, Widescreen
• Make Me Smile, Chicago, an hour and 25 minutes, Widescreen
• I Talk To The Wind, King Crimson, Widescreen
• Baby Come Back, Player, an hour and 20 minutes, Widescreen
• Just You ‘N’ Me, Chicago, an hour and 20 minutes, Widescreen
• Can’t Find My Way Home, Blind Faith, Steve Winwood, Widescreen
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, The Police, one hour and 10 minutes, Widescreen
• I Want To Know What Love Is, Foreigner, one hour and 10 minutes, Widescreen
• If you leave me now, Chicago, one hour and 15 minutes, Widescreen
• Don’t you (forget about me), Simple Minds, Widescreen, an hour and 20 minutes
• Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd, Widescreen, an hour and 20 minutes
• Badge, Cream, Widescreen, an hour and 5 minutes
• The Crystal Ship, The Doors, Widescreen, an hour and 15 minutes
• Thank You, Led Zeppelin, Widescreen, an hour and 15 minutes
• Big Log, Robert Plant, Widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• Santana Medley (Europa, Samba Pa Ti, Moonflower), widescreen, an hour and 55 minute
• Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers, Jeff Beck, Widescreen an hour and 30 minutes
• Saturday in the Park, Chicago, Widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• New Kid in Town, Eagles, Widescreen, TWO HOURS AND 25 MINUTES!!!
• No Quarter, Led Zeppelin, widescreen, an hour and 40 minutes
• Baby, I Love Your Way, Peter Frampton, Widescreen, an hour and 35 minutes
• Africa, Toto, widescreen, an hour and 20 minutes
• Dream Weaver, Gary Wright, widescreen, an hour and 25 minutes
• Touch Me, The Doors, Widescreen, an hour and 40 minutes
• Riviera Paradise, Stevie Ray Vaughan, an hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Carry On, CSNY, one hour and 30 minutes, HD
• Overkill, Men at Work, one hour and 10 minutes, HD
• How Long, Paul Carrack, one hour and 10 minutes, HD
• The Great Gig in the Sky, Pink Floyd, TWO HOURS! HD
• Sunny Afternoon, The Kinks, one hour and 20 minutes, HD
• Panama, Van Halen, one hour and 20 minutes, HD
• Highway Star, Deep Purple, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• Show Me the Way, Peter Frampton, one hour and 10 minutes, HD
• Young Turks, Rod Stewart, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• Back on the Chain Gang, Pretenders, one hour and 20 minutes, HD
• Smooth, Santana, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• Synchronicity II, The police, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• Call On Me, Chicago, one hour and 50 minutes! HD

Soft Rock/Pop/Themes/Instrumentals/blues, etc…

• The mother of all fingerstyle arrangements - Classical Gas, Mason Williams, Tommy Emmanuel, widescreen, 1h 30 min.
• Steppin’ Out by Joe Jackson, one hour and 10 minutes
• Save a prayer by Duran Duran, one hour and 40 minutes
• Feel Like Flying by Gino Vannelli, one hour and 25 minutes
• Hall & Oates “Double Feature”, two songs on one video, Sara Smile and One on One! 1h 40 min.
• Michael Jackson - Jackson Five “Double Feature”, two songs on one video I’ll Be There & Never Can Say Goodbye! 1h 40 min.
• How Deep Is Your Love - my most viewed solo guitar performance on YouTube is finally available! Widescreen, 90 minutes
• I’m Not In Love, 10CC, one hour, Widescreen
• The theme from the James Bond film Goldfinger, one hour and 5 minutes, Widescreen
• Never Say Never Again, James Bond theme, an hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Because You Loved Me, Celine Dion, an hour and 10 minutes, Widescreen
• Easy, Commodores, widescreen, an hour and 25 minutes
• And I Love You So, Perry Como, Widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• Theme from Exodus, Andy Williams, Widescreen, an hour and 15 minutes
• Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight, James Taylor, Widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• What a Fool Believes, Doobie Brothers/Michael McDonald, widescreen, an hour and 35 minutes
• Mr. Sandman, Chet Atkins, widescreen, an hour and 25 minutes
• Year of the Cat, Al Stewart, TWO HOURS!
• It’s Too Late, Carole King, widescreen, TWO HOURS+!
• Just The Way You Are, Billy Joel, widescreen, an hour and 35 minutes
• Dancing Queen, ABBA, widescreen, one hour and 35 minutes
• Alone Again (Naturally) , Gilbert O’Sullivan, widescreen, an hour and 45 minutes
• Wichita Lineman, Glen Campbell, Widescreen, 1 hour and 50 min., click on the title to watch a 12 minute lesson sample!
• We’ve Only Just Begun, The Carpenters, Widescreen, an hour and 10 minutes
• Star Trek Theme (original TV show), widescreen an hour and 25 minutes
• People, Barbra Streisand, widescreen, an hour and 35 minutes
• Help Me, Joni Mitchell, widescreen, an hour and 25 minutes
• Still Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon, an hour and 50 minutes
• Kiss on My List, Hall and Oates, an hour and 10 minutes
• Goin’ Out of My Head, and hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Every Time You Go Away, Paul Young, Hall & Oates, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Frankie Vali, one hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Superstar, the Carpenters, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• One More Time, Daft Punk,  one hour and 5 minutes, HD
• Reminiscing, Little River Band, one hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Your Song, Elton John, one hour and 20 minutes, HD
• Yesterday Once More, The Carpenters, one hour and 10 minutes, HD
• Time After Time, Cindy Lauper, one hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Angela, the theme from Taxi, Bob James, one hour and 5 minutes, HD
• Sleepwalk, Santo and Johnny, one hour and 35 minutes, HD
• Up Up and Away, The 5th Dimension, one hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Summer Breeze, Seals and Crofts, George Benson and Al Jarreau, one hour and 25 minutes, HD
• The Thrill is Gone, BB King, one hour, HD
• Hold Me Now, The Thompson Twins, one hour and 5 minutes, HD
• Arthur’s Theme, Christopher Cross, one hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Could it Be Magic, Barry Manilow, one hour and 5 minutes, HD
• The Wall Street Shuffle, 10CC, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• Love Will Find a Way, Pablo Cruise, one hour, HD
• Something in the Way She Moves, James Taylor, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• New York State Of Mind, Billy Joel, one hour and 30 minutes, HD
• Je t’aime… moi non plus, Serge Gainsbourg, one hour and 20 minutes, HD

R&B, Soul, Funk, Smooth Jazz, classic and contemporary

• Breezin’, George Benson, widescreen an hour and 35 minutes
• This Masquerade Leon Russell/George Benson, one hour and 30 min.
• After The Love Has Gone by EW&F, an hour and 45 minutes
• Through The fire, Chaka Khan - an hour and 20 minutes, Widescreen
• Greatest Love Of All, Whitney Houston, Widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• Unbreak My Heart, Toni Braxton, Widescreen, an hour and 20 minutes
• Affirmation, George Benson, Widescreen, an hour and 20 minutes
• If I Ain’t Got You, Alicia Keys, Widescreen, an hour and 25 minutes
• What’s Love Got to Do with It, Tina Turner, widescreen, an hour and 20 minutes
• Living Inside Your Love, Earl Klugh, George Benson, Widescreen, an hour and 20 minutes
• Give Me the Night, George Benson, widescreen, an hour and 20 minutes
• Saving All My Love For You, Whitney Houston, TWO HOURS!
• Killing Me Softly With His Song, Roberta Flack, widescreen, and hour and 25 minutes
• Fantasy, Earth, Wind & Fire, widescreen, TWO HOURS!
• Just the Two of Us, Grover Washington Jr. & Bill Withers, widescreen, an hour and 45 minutes
• Me and Mrs. Jones, Billy Paul, Michael Buble, widescreen, an hour and 45 minutes
• Let’s Stay Together, Al Green, widescreen, and hour and 20 minutes
• Georgia on My Mind, Ray Charles, widescreen, an hour and 30 minutes
• At Last, Etta James, an hour and 30 minutes, HD
• Winelight, Grover Washington Jr, an hour and 30 minutes, HD
• Street Life, Crusaders, an hour and 10 minutes, HD
• Sunny, Bobby Hebb, an hour and 25 minutes, HD
• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, one hour and 30 minutes, HD
• Midnight Train to Georgia, Gladys Knight & The Pips, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, Jimmy Ruffin, one hour and 15 minutes, HD
• Lowdown, Boz Scaggs, one hour and 10 minutes, HD
• Sun Goddess, Ramsey Lewis and EW&F, one hour, HD
• Always and Forever, Luther Vandross, Heatwave, one hour and 20 minutes, HD
• Rock With You, Michael Jackson, one hour and 20 minutes, HD
• All Night Long, Lionel Richie, one hour, HD
• What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye, one hour and 20 minutes, HD
• Same Ole Love, Anita Baker, one hour and 20 Minutes, HD
• Soulful Strut, Young-Holt Unlimited, one hour and 5 Minutes, HD
• Weekend in LA, George Benson, one hour and 20 minutes, HD