Hi, I’m Steve Ono. I’ve built a 50-year professional career as a guitarist with deep experience across jazz, folk, rock, funk, blues, country, and world music. I play all guitar-like instruments and work as a singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, producer, and teacher. I specialize in composing or improvising original music in any style or mood, copying a style by ear and turning it into sheet music, reading notation and chord symbols, and transposing keys as needed. I can record with live instruments, samples, and loops, or recruit and rehearse a group of musicians for studio projects. My solo sets layer acoustic, bass, and electric guitars into loop-based multitrack backgrounds, spanning traditional country to modern jazz with rock, Latin, and blues influences.

Steve Ono

Hi, I’m Steve Ono. I’ve built a 50-year professional career as a guitarist with deep experience across jazz, folk, rock, funk, blues, country, and world music. I play all guitar-like instruments and work as a singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, producer, and teacher. I specialize in composing or improvising original music in any style or mood, copying a style by ear and turning it into sheet music, reading notation and chord symbols, and transposing keys as needed. I can record with live instruments, samples, and loops, or recruit and rehearse a group of musicians for studio projects. My solo sets layer acoustic, bass, and electric guitars into loop-based multitrack backgrounds, spanning traditional country to modern jazz with rock, Latin, and blues influences.

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Hi, I’m Steve Ono. I’ve built a 50-year professional career as a guitarist with deep experience across jazz, folk, rock, funk, blues, country, and world music. I play all guitar-like instruments and work as a singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, producer, and teacher.

I specialize in composing or improvising original music in any style or mood, copying a style by ear and turning it into sheet music, reading notation and chord symbols, and transposing keys as needed. I can record with live instruments, samples, and loops, or recruit and rehearse a group of musicians for studio projects. My solo sets layer acoustic, bass, and electric guitars into loop-based multitrack backgrounds, spanning traditional country to modern jazz with rock, Latin, and blues influences.

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