Effortless Mastery, The Learning Diamond, Playing Your Way into Berklee College Of Music and Honing Your Work Ethic with Jazz Guitarist Rob Hamilton.

Everybody Speaks Music

On today's show we have a very special guest, one of Kris’ mentors, a great player and amazing teacher, Rob Hamilton.
Rob began studying with Canadian jazz guitar legend Oliver Gannon at age 12, becoming one of the youngest students to ever study with the guitar master. Rob took home countless honors, scholarships, and prizes at music festivals nationally and internationally including the Lionel Hampton Music Festival and Musicfest Canada. By the time of graduation, Rob had acquired a full tuition scholarship to the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston,
He appeared on countless stages as a side man with Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepson, Michael Buble, and Tom Jones among others.

Rob played for many years as a member of Canadian hard rock legend Lee Aaron's band, boy band Soul Decision, Vancouver Island's own Vince Vaccaro, and the Vancouver institution Soulstream whose reign at Bar None for over a decade is one of the great pieces of history of the Vancouver music scene

His compositions have been featured on video games such as “The Simpson’s Hit and Run” in which he served as session guitarist and bandleader. His composing is featured on television shows such as “The L-Word” and "The Dead Zone"

In 2010 Rob started up his own event band – Side One which would forever change the course of his career from hired gun guitarist, to multi-million dollar a year entrepreneur as Side One expanded from Vancouver to Calgary, Toronto, and Seattle employing hundreds of musicians and techs and doing close to 300 events a year for some of the biggest companies and events in the world.
Rob’s lesson resources
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nt5ndTHFjNTd9sImqCgQ24L_LC2yBi2lrWle2-KdN7o/edit
https://www.robhamilton.ca/
https://www.sideone.ca/
https://kennywerner.com/effortless-mastery
https://horizonschoolofmusic.ca/