Howard Morgen fingerstyle teacher, author RIP

[Philharpn]

Howard Henry Morgen
August 17, 1932 - February 15, 2012
Chapel Hill
Beloved husband of Estelle, Father to Donna and Gary (Susan), Grandfather to Adam, Mathew, Jackie, Jessica, and Daniel, and teacher to thousands. Revered innovator and educator of Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar. Author of enormously popular instructional books, videos, and online learning tools. A wonderful friend.
Succumbed to a five year battle with Leukemia.
A memorial service will be held at the Carolina Inn at 3:00, Sunday February 19. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Howard's name to: UNC-Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, PO Box 7295, Chapel Hill NC 27599-7295.
He will be greatly missed.
--Published in The News & Observer from February 18 to February 19, 2012

Howard was a New York fingerstyle jazz teacher and author whose books are still in print. He is perhaps best known today for his stelar video course on TrueFire called "Fretboard Breakthrough" that explains in a thorough, friendly and uncomplicated manner how to navigate the guitar fretboard and build chords. This is not a music reading course but printed material available with the course has guitar tab (playable thru TablEdit) as well as standard notation. The videos are up close and personal and clearly explained as he works out on his Eastman archtop.

He also has several youtube videos on line as well as snippets from his "Fretboard" video.

While Howard was a jazz guy, FB offers insights for guitarists playing all styles of music. Howard also studied classical guitar to learn fingering technique that he could transfer to his pop and jazz songs.