Lee Bush | Jazz Studies, Music Theory, Site Reading

Lee Bush joined the teaching staff at GitterPicker during the summer of 2010.  Lee brings with him a more structured approach to teaching the guitar that focuses on the jazz repertoir from the the 1930's - 1950's.  Lee applies an extensive focus on reading and theory.

After beginning guitar study in the 1950's, Lee furthered his education at Baldwin-Wallace College and did graduate work at the University of Missouri.  Lee has been a full-time working musician since 1963.  He studied music, composition and arranging with Phil Rizzo in the 1960's and from 1968 to 1976 worked as an arranger, composer, producer, and instrumentalist in New York City; where he created music for advertising, film, radio, and television programming. 

Lee started the Recording Studio Production program at Lakeland Community College and has taught jazz and classical guitar at Youngstown State University.  He is very active in the Cleveland jazz scene working with various Ernie Krivda ensembles, including the Fat Tuesday Big Band, and Swing City, the faculty jazz ensemble at Cuyahoga Community College.  Lee has even been honored with a grammy nomination for recording in 1993.

Lee's primary passion in music is to develop educational opportunities for aspiring guitarists by providing materials to promote literacy and expansion of the guitar vocabulary, which would bring study of the guitar up to the standards enjoyed by tradiitonal instruments.  Lee is fulfilling his passion by teaching guitar throughout the Northeast, OH area as well as publishing his own lesson book titled A Direct Approach to Guitar Fingerboard Mastery.