Guitar Cloud Symposium

What an amazing weekend of guitar education with a stellar line-up of instructors! We learned some incredibly useful concepts! 

• Jennifer Batten uses a 3-camera view for close ups of how she enhances expression through use of the tremolo bar and…

We're coming up fast on the February edition of Guitar Cloud Symposium and this one is a DOOZY! Our Monday Wrap Party is incredibly exciting not only because special guest Dweezil Zappa joins for a Q&A and our sponsors are…

Guitar Cloud Symposium founder Jennifer Batten was Michael Jackson's touring guitarist from 1987 to 1997, performing on ALL THREE of The King Of Pop's world tours. That happens to include the greatest 15 minutes of entertainment EVER recorded on sports'…

We always have new & interesting things in the works to share with the global Guitar Cloud Symposium community and here's one of the one's were working on for the April edition: Country Music. That includes some elements of folk…

Guitar Cloud Symposium gets a mention in Positive Grid's blog :

Catapulted into fame in the late 1980’s when she became Michael Jackson’s touring guitarist (aka, the woman who could play Eddie Van Halen’s solo in “Beat It”), Jennifer Batten…

Positive Grid presents the February edition of GUITAR CLOUD SYMPOSIUM and we couldn't be more honored to have this artist as our special guest for the Monday Wrap Party on 2/22.⁣⁣

DWEEZIL ZAPPA is of course the son of the…

Guitar Cloud Symposium instructors Jennifer Batten, Jude Gold, Vicki Genfan, and Gretchen Menn gather on Zoom to discuss the upcoming GCS Deep Dive on January 16th!

Music Connection Magazine write up on our Deep Dive Jan 16

Guitar Cloud Symposium is sponsored by:

The special issue of GUITAR WORLD celebrating the life of Eddie Van Halen is out and one of the artists that contributed an Eddie anecdote was GCS instructor/founder Jennifer Batten. She recalls the time that Eddie asked her to…

All of the instructors for our December edition of the Guitar Cloud Symposium weekend guitar workshop celebrate the Holidays and talk about their modules in this weekend's session.

Come hang out with Capt Hook - Steve Vai during our wrap party Dec 14 for a student Q&A!

SAVE $50 on the next GCS event  (DEC 11-14) if you register before midnight Pacific Dec 4!

So excited to announce…

Nov 16 - As we gear up for our December 11-14 symposium with new instructor Daniele Gottardo, (check out his amazing Simpson's theme tapping!) we're also looking forward to announcing the details of our Saturday January 16th Deep Dive…