An Elvis fan, Goodrick began studying guitar in his pre-teens and was performing professionally a few years later. When he was sixteen, he became interested in jazz at a Stan Kenton Band Camp. He attended the
Berklee School of Music from 1963 to 1967. He taught at Berklee, then spent a few years touring with Gary Burton. After returning to Boston, he settled into a career largely as an educator. Goodrick has had many notable students, including
Bill Frisell,
Julian Lage,
John Scofield,
Lage Lund,
Mike Stern,
Avner Strauss, and
Rale Micic. His first book,
The Advancing Guitarist, is an instruction manual for guitarists of all styles. He has also written a series of books addressing the intricacies of harmonic
voice leading. Goodrick worked with
Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra during the 1980s and early 1990s, with
Jack DeJohnette in the late 1980s, and with
Steve Swallow in the late 1990s. He performed in a duo with Pat Metheny at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2005 and with
Wolfgang Muthspiel at the Jazz Standard in 2008. ==Discography==