What is the best learn to play jazz guitar?

Im making a band and i need to be really good at the guitar. I need to know this because my favorite guitarist, Synyster Gates, went to college and studied jazz guitar and it worked out great for him. Im only 15, so i cant go to college yet. If you have tips on how to learn it, please tell!|||iJamplay.com has a pretty cool jazz guitar series. Check out their introductory jazz lesson, it's free. The site itself isn't though. If you have no cash, you will probably have to rely on google/bing and youtube. Just search for "jazz guitar lesson" and you'll find stuff.|||take private lessons. Private lessons with a good teacher are one of the important things you would do as a music major in college, anyway.