live online weekly group classes.

Attain the essential elements so you can shape-shift to any character, style, or player you desire. 

1. Get answers and motivation in Weekly Online sessions with me, the guitar guru.

2. Obtain the correct guitar knowledge to play musically, with freedom, and joy.

3. Band together with other guitar heroes in the Group Dynamics inner circle.

For Acoustic and Electric guitarist who like blues, rock, metal, or making their own music on the guitar.

I Recommended you’ve been playing guitar for 3 months and listening to music for about 6 months.

However if you are passionate and willing to ask for help I will always help you to make more music than excuses.

 What do I mean by assembling the guitar?

We'll not, that you need to restring or reattach anything, but that would be helpful. It means that you’ve got to know your instrument. How can I musically learn the fretboard? What sounds can I make with guitar strings? What are the similarities and differences between each string? How can I see how all these chords, scales, and music fit together on the guitar? How can I create songs, riffs, or solos on the guitar? The difference between those who play guitar for a lifetime and those who stop playing soon depends on how long you can talk about each of those questions. Ask an experienced guitarist about learning the fretboard musically and fundamentals? Prepare for a long lecture. Ask a beginner or someone ready to quit guitar? They will most likely say, “I don’t know”. 

First look at the piano- so nice, so clean, so organized, stick to the white or black keys and your fine, one key one note. On the guitar however you can play on note multiple places with multiple techniques and picked or tapped sound effects. So again what’s assembling the guitar? 

When you learn how your guitar is put together: the note names, 4 common scale types (pentatonic, blues, diatonic, harmonic), the barre chords, and arpeggios. 

• You are able to play across the guitar neck effortlessly

• You always feel creative, curious, and motivated to improve. 

• You are able to play in different moods, keys, and genres.

• Your technique improves naturally and automatically.

• Your songwriting and solos become more controlled and original. 

• You are able to learn cover songs twice as fast because your guitar pattern recognition is on point. 

• You’re able to express the music in your head or discover hidden treasures you didn’t even know you could make spontaneously and automatically. 

Beginner guitar classes

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Zoom Classes to see how to play the exercises in “8 steps to Guitar Nirvana”

Each week we will:

• 25 minute -Teaching a lesson from “8 steps to Guitar Nirvana” 

• 10 minutes- showing how to use the lesson to make music with lead or rhythm guitar, drum beats, bass lines, or in context of other songs.

• 25 minutes- Q&A to get inspiration, motivation, or clarification on exercises

• If you have questions, recommendations, challenges, or successes during the week comment or email me in the classroom and I’ll respond in 24 hours.

Go over the course before class. Come to class to learn and reaffirm your knowledge and get help with challenges. Then check out the next weeks lesson!

When you sign up you will get immediate access to “8 Steps to Guitar Nirvana” and the email for the zoom link.

If you join now, you could get private guitar lessons at half my normal rate! As students join you’ll get more inspiration and be ahead of the game. You get time to ask questions in class as well as in the classroom outside of class.

The classes lessons will recycle every 8 weeks, so you can start anytime. Each week is designed to be a skill you can understand within the hour if you have tried playing the guitar for a couple months.

Class sizes are only 5 students at a time. That way everyone gets a shot to get some personal help and so I can make sure they are prepared to continue their guitar journey.

8 simple steps to perfecting the guitar

1. Right View~ Getting Started on Guitar. We cover how to tune the guitar, how tablature works, the importance of naming your guitar, basic rhythm notation, hand and guitar positioning, as well as a small introduction into muting on the guitar.

2. Right Intention ~ Why, How, What is the 12 Bar Blues? Let's take an in depth view of the structure, harmony, and philosophy behind the 12 bar blues. We’ll look at how a scale and a measure of music is formed. Then look at other chord progressions.

3. Right Speech ~ Learning the Notes- C Major/A Minor 12 Bar Blues- Learn to feel the difference between major and minor keys while mapping out where the notes are on the guitar fretboard through playing music.

4. Right Action~ Three Jams! Easy Chords, Arpeggios, and Intro to Rhythm. Let's put what you learned so far into harmonious action.It will help you to start switching chords vertically, understand arpeggios and how notes harmonize with chords, and how long a quarter, half, and whole note should last for.

5. Right Mindfulness~ A Minor Pentatonic Scale- You know the notes horizontally on each string. Now to make the notes move vertically. There are five shapes that you have to master playing the pentatonic scale (5 tone scale) and once you master the shape and hopefully see how they all fit together- that's where the fun begins.

6. Right Concentration~ Power Chord Gauntlet- Power Chords are the staple of rock and roll. Whether you're playing rock, metal, blues, reggae, punk, alternative, the ability to switch and know where the power chords are key!

7. Right Livelihood~ Creating Riffs and Solos- Have you wished to know how guitarists like Jimi Hendrix, Randy Rhoads, or myself make guitar riffs? I'll show you how creating rules helps you to create better melodies and how using scales lets you "dance" musically free. All Improvising is taking a risk within a safe structure. We will learn the power chord shapes on the E,A,D, G, and b strings.

8. Right Effort~ Eightfold Shuffle- 8 Blues Riffs you need to know- This video montage is eight of my favorite and most iconic 12 blues shuffles. Use these to practice counting bars and switching chords while using techniques like alternative picking, swing, palm muting, hammer ons and pull offs, and bends. If you want to be enlightened on the ways of music this is the test to practice.

When you learn these essentials

• You are able to play the guitar effortlessly

• You always feel creative, curious, and motivated to improve. 

• You are able to play in different moods, keys, and genres.

• Your technique improves naturally and automatically.

• Your songwriting and solos become more controlled and original. 

• You are able to learn cover songs twice as fast because your guitar pattern recognition is on point. 

• You’re able to express the music in your head or discover hidden treasures you didn’t even know you could make spontaneously and automatically.

Get Your Ticket To Guitar Nirvana

Guitar Heroes Take Action 

Well in the hero's journey there’s the call to action and the meeting of the mentor. The mentor helps the hero overcome their mental blocks and achieve their goal. My goal is to help you have freedom, creativity, and joy when you play the guitar so you will always make more music than excuses. Part of that goal is to teach people who want to play guitar for a lifetime. That’s not people who need to take lessons for a lifetime though. 

You may be thinking? Yes I would like help from a teacher, but they are so expensive. And you’re right; personally,  I’ve taught group classes at music schools for $200/ month and private guitar lessons for $400/month. Yes I would like to be part of a group because I don’t quite have the vocabulary to want to write my own songs or develop my own style with a teacher. I’d also like to to stay motivated and collaborate, but the facebook groups are just complainers and don’t want to practice to succeed.

This is why I’ve created Group Dynamics. It gives you the elements and materials to be free on the guitar. The live support in live stream lessons to help you overcome obstacles and see examples. Custom Jam tracks using the principles that you can transform and create with too. A limited community, people who committed to making more music than excuses, you’re included in the right environment to stay motivated. The best part is everyone needs to learn and practice the fundamentals so you’ll be able to learn from all the questions and better utilize the courses you will be receiving.

tuition

1. $140/month (4)1 hr classes plus bonuses

2. $240/Month (2) 1 hr classes per week 8/month plus bonuses

3. $300/Month (3) 1 hr classes per week 12/month plus bonuses

Bonuses:

• Lifetime Access to Guitar Nirvana

• Quarterly Recitals (song birds and dragon scales)

• Offline Virtual Help- Ask questions in the classroom or email me and I will help you understand or explain a concept to you with a video.

• Guitar Player Discord Server- Collaborate and Share your successes or questions with other guitar heroes in group dynamics.

• Lifetime access to Song Birds, Dragon Scales, and 8 Steps to Guitar Nirvana

• Grant Us Guitar “Guitar Prayer” or “Make Music” T- shirt.

  Lessons are purchased 4 at a time.

There is only the now!

so Here’s a present!

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 So guitar heroes, this is your call to action. Are you going to master the fretboard to play with joy, freedom, and creativity. Are your willing to drop the weight of all those excuses and anxiety of figuring out the guitar and music alone? Are you ready to transform from a guitar prayer to a guitar player? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re ready to make music. Join the band and go to the Grant Us guitar Patreon Page to get your immediate courses, and I will be with you on the Sabbath for your Day of Shred. Namaste Guitar Heroes, I’ll see you on the inside.

If you are in your first year of guitar or are thinking about giving up entirely, I would highly recommend that you learn the fundamentals.

Be able to locate the letter names of the notes on each guitar string. Be able to play the pentatonics, blues, and diatonic scales on the guitar to a drum beat.

I’ve been teaching guitar for six years and I’ve never seen someone learn these principles and quit. I’ve had many people who could learn songs, know open chords or barre chords, and even had good tricks and techniques, yet at some point they run out of steam and smoke, and they give up.

Life forms are made of similar elements, but can be very different. From BB King, Pablo De Lucia, Steve Vai, or Nita Strauss, they are all masters of the fretboard and harmony who make more music than excuses.