As a musician, teacher, producer, guitarist and author, Matt Smith has dedicated himself to the art and craft of making music for over 30 years. He was a senior music instructor for the National Guitar Workshop, along with some of the finest guitar instructors in the country, leading workshops in Connecticut, Chicago, LA, New Orleans, Austin, Nashville, Florida, Seattle, Oakland, the UK and Germany.
As a player, Matt has hundreds of songwriting, recording and live credits and has toured the US and dozens of other countries. It's not only hard to find someone with Matt's breadth of experience, but it's rare to find someone who shares his knowledge so generously with colleagues.
Matt has produced and engineered for over 100 commercially-released albums, commercials, and film soundtracks. As a session musician, he has played multiple instruments (acoustic, electric, and baritone guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, dobro, sitar, Mohan vina, steel guitar, ukulele, saz, cumbus, charango, tiple) for many artists in New York and Austin.
Since 1991, Matt has been an international clinician for Kaman Music (Ovation, Takamine, and Hamer Guitars, and Trace Elliott Amplifiers), and a product demonstrator for Fret King Guitars, Tony Bruno Custom Amplifiers, Tech 21 and Pigtronix Effects Pedals, and, most recently, Supro Amps.
