New Online Student Promotion: Ticket To Guitar Nirvana
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Email: Grant@dcphilosophy
Phone: 510-606-8978
New Online Student Promotion: Ticket To Guitar Nirvana
My contact information:
Email: Grant@dcphilosophy
Phone: 510-606-8978
Here come’s that reminder to practice on your phone and once again “ignore”. Or you walk into lessons with your guitar teacher and you say “I didn’t practice this week..”. You’ll blame it on chores, homework, paid work, cooking, cleaning, taxes, carpool, traffic, exhaustion. Yet is seems like we have time for watching Netflix, playing video games or social media; so dust accumulates on the guitar and time accumulates on your phone’s screen time. So you question yourself thinking “Do I not have good enough reasons? Am I just not cut out for this? Am I wasting my time or the teacher’s time?” Nope.
You probably have some reasons to start learning the guitar: childhood dream come true, higher creativity, play for friends and family, challenge yourself, connect to your favorite bands, go to the “NEXT LEVEL” or a more exciting way to meditate or do self care. If you’ve been aspiring for a while you probably found yourself stuck in a rut, that your hands are too big, small, slow, or stiff to play what you want, or that you just don’t have time to “practice” the lessons you got from online courses or Youtube. You may want to play songs, shred, write songs, or understand music theory, which are all great and will be addressed in this letter.
The main desire you have is to be able to pick up the guitar and play freely. No thoughts, no worries, no struggles, just playing. This is Guitar Nirvana. Welcome.
It’s not that practice doesn’t work, it’s that it feels like work. The real reason you have forgotten how to play or never learned to play on the guitar.
If you have to practice something that means you have skipped a bunch of fundamental steps skill wise. And slowing yourself down to feels like pulling teeth and leads to what pyschologists call “ego depletion”, which ruins your focus, flow, and thinking power. So even thinking about practicing tells your brain, I’m going to need lot’s of energy and focus for this, so it decides to not even do it; when we convert it to play and when yo learn to play naturally, you brain says this is an automatic and energizing activity, “LETS ROCK”.
When you practice something it’s always going to sound like practicing it, never quite there. This makes it hard to feel like you’re playing freely, because you’ve only been learning in this tired and hyper focused mode. When you practice something too specific you’re creating tunnel vision blocking yourself from what you will discover or play on the guitar.
You might be yelling “Everything I need to know about guitar is free on Justin Guitar and Youtube, I don’t need a teacher, I can teach myself”. You’re %1000 right. So why haven’t you learned everything yet? Because you’ve gotten really good at a particular type of learning that we practiced in school and in work. It’s a block out everything, struggle, struggle, struggle, rush, cuss, and repeat. How has that been working out? It lasts about 10 minutes and then you go do something more fun and exciting and energizes. Imagine being able to take general concept of any videos, transform it into an exercise that you naturally make through music, and then you can teach yourself! (Like I said earlier the only teacher you need is yourself)
The solution is NOT to practice more or set a rigid schedule. It’s about knowing how to create to and play the guitar with freedom and peace no matter what skill level you are. The only way to do this is to MAKE MUSIC.
“Make Music? That is outrageous. I’m not creative. My hands don’t move quick. I’m too young or too old or to scared or too aggressive.” Yup I’ve heard it before, but it’s not true. What speed is music? What volume is music? What notes are music? What age is music? I hope you’re starting to see that the music is up to you. Music is open to everyone with a desire to create, play, and be honest with themselves.
I wasn’t surprised when I started teaching that some students that had been taking lesson for years couldn’t do beginner things. Real beginner things like play with a drum beat, count the repetitions of a riff, transition in songs correctly, or create a riff or improvise a solo. I felt bad because I couldn’t imagine picking up a guitar and not being able to do those. So I vowed to always make sure no one I teach misses out on these principles.
In your first class called “1 hour rockstar” we make sure you get the full experience of creating on the guitar. Seeing how you can learn guitar without having to practice, just having to play. Who doesn’t want more leisure and play in their lives?
Three Types of Guitar Student Personalities.
Aspiring Songwriters- If you are a beginner guitarist and think “I can’t make my own music yet”, I’m happy to tell you that you are far more capable than you think. It is way easier to make your own music within these concepts than it is to play someone else’s music using these concepts. You probably believe that because you’ve tried guitar lessons before via a teacher, online courses, or youtube cover song tutorials, but things just didn’t feel right. But no one ever helped you figure out what does feel right! These guitar and music principles I show you are elements that when combined with your natural tendencies and aptitudes create music even in your first lesson.
Aspiring Shredders- Sometimes I’ll admit, I don’t relate to longer time players who say they are stuck in a box or in a rut, because I’ve been playing the ruts (techniques, scales, chords, sequencing, and arpeggios) for 16 years and I’ve never felt stuck. The real problem they have is they don’t really have a rut or box at all. They have decorations and souvenirs from songs and lessons they’ve watched, but they have no house to put them in; or knowledge how to build a house for themselves. So they are stuck.
The trickiest part will be convincing that you need more structure to get unstuck. But think of it as building more pathways, detours, and scenic routes on your guitar journey. More places to visit, more places to explore, and more risks and adventures you can take.
Aspiring Song Birds- While most people want to learn songs as soon as they start on the guitar, it sets you up for disappointment. The songs you like are most likely from professional musicians and while the chords or notes may be easier, there are certain subtle techniques that you should know first. I was inspired by AC/DCs “Back in Black”, but I could never get the lick to sound quite right in the beginning. However once I learned the pentatonic scale and mastered hammer ons and pull offs and bends, it shredded. So it’s good to use cover songs as motivation, yet to play them well you have to learn the fundamentals first. Making your own music with my help is going to make learning those concepts much more fun. We have section in the 90 Day Guitar hero program whee you can pick from 12 songs that you can learn in 1 hour, if you’ve done the lessons before.
The obvious answer is the guitar is a musical instrument so its purpose is to create music. The unique purpose of music is its ability to repeat things in a pleasurable way. The deeper answer is I had to make music. The first power chord I heard in AC/DC’s “Back in Black” I immediately wanted to know how that sound was made. More specifically I wanted to know what I would do if I could make that sound.
When I had a desire to create music on the guitar, I became a sponge for the fundamental knowledge of the instrument. I loved learning chord shapes, scales, arpeggios, rhythm, and note names because I knew once I got home I’d be able to use those musical nutrients to grow my musical garden.
When I’m making music with those concepts I’m practicing in a pleasurable to me. Once I found something awesome, I would repeat it longer making the skill and knowledge sink in effortlessly. Each technique or concept was another toy with unlimited potential and combinations that always grew.
The feeling of creating music on the guitar is unreplicable in any other area of my life. It’s the excitement of discovery, the perseverance to hold down that difficult rhythm steady, the knowledge I’ve made something the world has never heard before! (for better or for worse!) Then at 9 year old and today at 25 years old, when I’m learning songs, I see the patterns of fundamentals which makes learning and memorizing them super simple and streamlined. Most importantly I can then use those patterns in my own music!
This program is for those with a desire to make more music than excuses on the electric or acoustic guitar.
In your first lesson you get:
Custom drum track
Learn the essential rock and roll chords and techniques
Discover what kind of guitar player you are.
Master playing naturally with a drum beat
Understand guitar tablature and notation
Apply the “Song Machine” Formula to create like never before.
When you know how you play its twice as easy to understand how someone else plays.
Master Guitar Scales and Progressions across the guitar neck so you can create naturally, freely, and automatically.
Take a look at Viswa who wrote and improvised this song in 1 hour!
Master playing with a real drum beat to develop professional and real world musical abilities.
Understand their Motivational DNA so they know how to achieve their goals and stay accountable.
Students use the principles to create their own style and genre to create a musical self identity.
Perform what they’ve been mastered in quarterly Guitar Hero Showcases.
Understand the Song Anatomy to play with predictability and compose like professionals.
Learn 12 Essential Rock and Roll Songs that you can perform.
Create 10 original guitar riffs and 10 guitar solos as “Riff Writers” and “Spotlight Soloists”
Play scales and chords with conviction, creativity, and purpose so you can fly musically and freely across the entire guitar neck.
Master 7 essential acoustic and electric guitar techniques so they sound like they’ve been playing for years.
They get questions at home answered and more suggestions than other students to always stay motivated and curious.
Learn all concepts with me in class and have video replays in the course and of their lesson if they struggle at home.
Learn to play with backing tracks and get their own custom backing tracks for their ideas and songs. This helps them sound extra professional when performing for friends, family, or filming themselves.
Whether you have been playing guitar for a couple months or a couple years, there are certain concepts that all guitar players need to know in order to make more music than excuses.
When I first started teaching, I was shocked that some students who had taken lessons for years at other programs had not learned or created with these principles!
So It was important to me to create a course that teaches the preparatory essentials to guitar students that helps them discover their instrument; while discovering themselves.
The 8 steps to Guitar Nirvana are the essential principles that every great guitar player understands and uses. Once you internalize these principles you will always be creating confidently. They are the best test to know your instrument, know yourself, and know if the guitar is the right instrument for you.
When you start lessons we go over each one of these videos from the course and make a riff, solo, or even song out of the principles within it. That way every class you leave with something special you created and a new skill manifested. Since all the material is in the course you can prepare before we meet to start making music out of the gate!
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.
Plus- 12 Songs You Can Learn and Play in one hour!
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 rock and metal this is the test to practice.
E Minor / G Major
Pentatonics
Blues
Diatonic
Harmonic
F# Minor /A
Pentatonics
Diatonic
Harmonic
C# Minor / E Major
Pentatonics
Harmonic
D minor/ F Major
Pentatonics
Diatonic
Harmonic
B Minor/ D Major
Pentatonics
Diatonic
Harmonic
C Minor/ E flat Major
Diatonics
Pentatonics
G Minor/ B flat Major
Diatonics
Pentatonics
ANOTHER WORD FOR GOD, IS THE CREATOR.
SPIRITUAL OR NOT, I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS ENDOWED WITH CREATIVITY.
THEY JUST NEEDED PERMISSION TO MANIFEST IT.
20 Minute Overview of the No Bars Held Method for Guitar Gods
Each one of these section could be an entire guitar course in itself, but you are granted all the knowledge at your fingertips. This way you can learn with No Bars Held.
When I used to teach at music schools students and I were limited in many ways. You couldn’t get make up credits. You couldn’t have my personal phone number or email. You couldn’t use any of my courses that I had made outside of class. If you take lessons at good music schools; 30 minute lessons start out at $200/month in the Bay Area! With none of those added benefits.
Here’s what it would cost for you to get all these benefits at music schools or from other online course sites:
Weekly Choose Your Adventure 30 minute Private Lessons: $200/mo
Access to 3 Guitar God Lessons Online Libraries: $47/mo
No Excuses 24/7 Student Support: $97/mo
After Hours Composer for Custom Backing Tracks/Notation: $97/month
Life Happens Lessons insurance and credits: $99/mo
Quarterly Guitar Hero Live Showcases: $49
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