Hello and welcome to the web site of Rod Furlott.
You'll find some cool guitar stuff here, so grab your guitar and come
on in. I think you'll find it interesting and informative. The links
below will take you to some pages which contain examples of the kind
of information you will find in my book The Serious Guitarist,
for which this site was named, and lots of other things as well.
Take a look around, and be sure to drop me an e-mail if you have any questions about any of the info contained on the site, or if you just want to say hi.
- The Harmonic Minor Scale
- The Dorian Mode
- The Seventh Chord
- The Major Seventh Arpeggio
- Exploring the Blues
- Note Map
- Altered Chord Scale
- Quartal Harmony
- Chord Concepts
- ii V I chord/melody phrases
- Coltrane Changes
The Serious Guitarist is a valuable resource. If you are looking for
a fingering for virtually any Scale, Mode, Chord or Arpeggio,
you'll find it in the book. But it is also much more than just
another reference book.
The Serious Guitarist is intended as a window into the mind of the author, and the systems of organization and visualization which have evolved for him over the 20+ years that he has been playing the guitar. One of the most important of these systems is what Rod calls The Four Regions.
The Four Regions approach allows the guitarist to learn virtually everything on the guitar from a common perspective, thereby seeing more clearly the similarities which exist between different musical elements. When you can see these similarities, you can associate new things that you are trying to learn with other things that you already know, and that speeds up the learning process.
Here's a brief overview of some of the main topics covered in the book:
The book costs $20.95, plus $4.00 shipping and handling. If you would like to recieve more information on The Serious Guitarist please feel free to e-mail me and I will be happy to send some sample pages of the book in pdf format (acrobat reader).
If you're ready to go for it, you can order a copy through the mail. Just send a check or money order, made payable to Rod Furlott for $24.95, to:
Be sure to include your name and shipping address.
Rod Furlott is a professional guitarist who lives in the Portland, Oregon area, where he has come to be regarded as one of the regions best players and instructors.
In 1991 Rod earned a Bachelors degree in Music performance, on Jazz guitar, from the University of Oregon. He has the distinction of being the first person ever to earn such a degree from the U of O for Jazz guitar.
He can be seen regularly, performing around the Portland area in a solo guitar setting, and with other groups, from duos and trios, to larger ensembles. For booking information, or for a listing of upcoming performances, feel free to e-mail.
Rod not only plays guitars, he also makes them, and performs exclusively on instruments of his own design and construction.
Rod offers guitar lessons to students of all levels of ability and ages. If you live in the Portland, OR area and think you might be interested in studying with him, just send an e-mail to receive more information.