In his hometown of Melbourne, Australia over his career Pat Lajoie has performed live in many various professional gigs. He also runs a private music school from his home.

Pat started his studies in Jazz guitar back in 1981 with Guitarist Mark Cally, who now resides in Los Angeles and teaches at Musician Institute. After working with Mark for 3 years, Mark recommended Pat to study with Melbo...
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In his hometown of Melbourne, Australia over his career Pat Lajoie has performed live in many various professional gigs. He also runs a private music school from his home.

Pat started his studies in Jazz guitar back in 1981 with Guitarist Mark Cally, who now resides in Los Angeles and teaches at Musician Institute. After working with Mark for 3 years, Mark recommended Pat to study with Melbourne jazz guitar icon Bruce Clarke.

Pat has travelled to NYC on numerous occasions during the 90s in order to continue his studies and experience the NYC jazz scene first hand. During these visits Pat managed to study guitar with contemporary guitarist / educator Bruce Arnold an others.

In 1996, Pat attended a jazz guitar masterclass workshop with guitar great, John Scofield. A highlight for Pat was that he managed to sit in with John Scofield’s trio during the final performances. A week later Pat also attended two other masterclass workshops with Jim Hall and Pat Martino.

Nowadays, Pat is busy composing and producing original music as well as producing music for other clients. He has been very successful getting his original music placed in music libraries globally.

His music experience over the years have allowed him to perform internationally in a wide variety of music styles including Jazz, Rock, Blues and Adult Contemporary pop.

Pat holds a Master Certificate in Songwriting and a Professional Certificate in General Music from Berklee College of Music.

He also holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from RMIT University Melbourne.
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