Jay Graydon Reveals His Best Recording Tips!

Jay Graydon shares with you his secrets on recording the guitar with the best possible result. Jay Graydon is a music industry veteran, internationally renowned, with many hits over the years - a Los Angeles top songwriter, recording artist, guitarist, producer, arranger, engineer, and more - twice Grammy awarded with 12 top five Grammy finalist nominations.

Join us for Jay's fabulous series of articles on recording techniques written exclusively for www.guitar.com. Every 2 weeks there will be a new article with tons of information from one of the highest ranked guitarists, producers, engineers and more, in the music industry. Links to the articles from Jay's homepage www.jaygraydon.com

Over the years Jay has written many articles in music magazines and as an educator he conducted seminars at Musician's Institute in Hollywood together with guitar legend Tommy Tedesco for more than 15 years. Currently Jay is working on a series of books on recording techniques together with Craig Anderton - well known writer of recording technique best sellers, columns in music magazines and gear manuals. The books will include recording the guitar, bass, drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals, horns, strings, mixing, and much more, and the release schedule for this series is set to begin during 2003.

The articles on www.guitar.com are a teaser for the coming books. Direct links to the articles from Jay's homepage www.jaygraydon.com

Some of Jay's greatest hits include Grammy awarded Turn Your Love Around with George Benson, many songs co-written with super producer and long time pal David Foster, e.g. the Grammy awarded After The Love Has Gone - a huge hit with Earth, Wind and Fire and Friends In Love with Dionne Warwick and Johnny Mathis, several hits with Al Jarreau (e.g. Mornin', Breakin' Away, High Crime, After All, Roof Garden, Love Is Waiting, Closer To Your Love and many more), Who's Holding Donna Now with DeBarge, several hits with Manhattan Transfer such as Twilight Tone, On The Boulevard, Smile Again, Spies In The Night, just to name a few.

Jay has participated in a large number of television shows and films as a studio guitarist, e.g. The Andy Williams Show, The Jackson 5 Show, The Tonight Show, Miami Vice II, The French Connection, Grease, Ghostbusters, St Elmo's Fire, and many more. Apart from being a top guitarist, the titles songwriter, producer, engineer, arranger, keyboard player and singer also apply to this versatile artist.

His production credits include e.g. mega stars such as Air Supply, George Benson, Al Jarreau, DeBarge, El DeBarge, Sheena Easton, Art Garfunkel, Manhattan Transfer, Johnny Mathis, Patti LaBelle, Lou Rawls, Kenny Rogers, and Dionne Warwick just to name a few, and many of the more than 200 songs he has written are included on Gold and Platinum selling albums.

Among the many acknowledgements Jay Graydon has received over the years, N.A.R.A.S. - the Grammy board - once nominated him as Studio Guitarist of the Year. Jay was e.g. the soloist Grammy awarded (2001) Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan chose for the legendary guitar solo on PEG.

Since Jay Graydon is Grammy awarded and nominated in so many non-related music categories, he probably holds the record of being the most versatile Grammy musician, the artist with the most diversity out of all the awardees and nominees.

Grammy Awards and Top Five Finalist Nominations:
v 1979 - Best Rhythm & Blues Song - AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE (WINNER!)
v 1979 - Song Of The Year - AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE
v 1980 - Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental - TWILIGHT ZONE/TWILIGHT TONE
v 1981 - Album Of The Year - BREAKIN' AWAY
v 1981 - Best Vocal Arrangement For Two Or More Voices - KAFKA
v 1982 - Best Rhythm & Blues Song - TURN YOUR LOVE AROUND (WINNER!)
v 1983 - Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals - MORNIN'
v 1983 - Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals - STEP BY STEP
v 1983 - Best Engineered Recording - JARREAU
v 1983 - Producer Of The Year
v 1984 - Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture - GHOSTBUSTERS
v 1985 - Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture - ST ELMO'S FIRE