If you’re struggling to shred at a high speed, with clarity, and in a way that allows you to put your own unique sound into your playing, I can guarantee it’s because you’re making one of the biggest fretting mistakes that keep lead guitarists from playing at a high level.

When you negle...

If you are struggling with fretboard fluency, I’m going to show you the secret box that has helped my leads stop sounding like scales and start sounding like unique pieces of actual music.  

When you’re trying to become not just a guitarist, but a lead guitarist, everyone tells you scale...

If you find yourself spending a bunch of time with your guitar, but you’re not shredding as fast as you want to, I’m going to show you the process I take my students through to get them adding ridiculous speed to their playing–all without spending countless hours on the same boring exerci...

There’s a monster that keeps guitarists from fast, fluid shred guitar.  It slows us down and makes playing uncomfortable–even painful.

The result is never good.  Frustration, soreness, slow playing, and even quitting guitar altogether can come from this.

The biggest problem guitarists f

If you’re a guitarist struggling to build speed, I’ll show you the plugin I use to help me play faster without a metronome.

You’ve probably heard it a thousand times:

“Just use a metronome.”

That’s great. But reaching for that metronome can be a drag because it's inherently boring.

Pl...

Not being able to play as fast and as fluidly as you want has nothing to do with how much time you put into practice.  It has nothing to do with your exercise selection, your tones, your effort, or your metronome strategy.  For most players I’ve run into recently, the cause of the problem...

If you feel like your leads are missing that edge that makes for hair-raising dual guitar attacks, I’m going to show you how to harmonize the modes to get this effect without relying on guesswork.

Years ago, as a young intermediate guitar player, I knew I was missing a specific sound.  S...

If you’re struggling with soreness and discomfort when trying to play guitar at a high level, I’ll show you what I have done to manage and ease my own pain. This will help you enjoy guitar like you’re supposed to and become the total shredder you were meant to be.   

The pursuit of guita...

Have you ever learned a song that you love, but dread playing it because the solo is too fast and too hard to play?

You learn the riffs, play them endlessly, and lock them in tight.  You might even spend as much time learning the guitar solo.  But as you're cruising through the first hal...

In a recent Shred Guitar Challenge I hosted, a gentleman asked me about his U-shaped alternate picking. We could both tell that this was seriously getting in the way of his ability to play faster and articulate his notes cleanly.

You know you’re alternate picking in a U-shaped fashion wh...