PLAY WHAT YOU PRACTICE
You, like many other guitar students, start out learning beginner things. You practice a lot and follow videos or tablature, yet you don’t feel like you’re progressing musically or technically. Truly you are not at fault. If you’re practicing to become and expert at beginner exercises you’re going to end up being a beginner forever. To play like an expert guitarist you have to do what the experts do!
There’s different approaches to learning and playing music on the guitar that experts and beginners do. Beginners seek quick, gimmicky, painless ways to succeed at the guitar. That manifests as picking things that they can already do, like play Happy Birthday or Yankee Doodle. Or trying to learn guitar from videos with three camera angles, special effects, and sonic note verification just learn how to play a G chord. Or they just learn guitar as they learn songs that they love; that method worked for Hendrix so more power to you.
I understand why people would learn guitar this way. Guitar is a labyrinth to understand and make music on. There’s different shapes chords and scales. The strings bend and can be struck 10 different ways. There’s duplicate notes on each of the strings. Then you still have to learn how the shapes relate to music theory in terms of harmony. So the easier and softer way is let’s just learn “Master of Puppets” and “Wonderwall” that’ll get the job done.
It’s depressing to think about that there must be some secret or natural gift from the guitar gods that let other people understand and play on the guitar so well. There’s no secret, but there is a method.
Imagine understanding all the shapes, concepts, and mechanics of the guitar as well as your favorite guitar players.
Envision being able to create your own riffs and solos effortlessly using simple techniques that experts use.
Feel the confidence within that any song you want to play you would be prepared. You would be able to recognize guitar patterns that make learning the songs twice as fast and easy.
Obtain the ability to synergize and jam with anyone, in any style.
I’ve taught hundreds of guitar lessons over the last 7 years and not a single student came in and said “ I want to be a guitar practicer”. They wanted to be a guitar player. We both know they need to practice and learn the essential principles of the guitar. Scales, chords, arpeggios, harmony, techniques, note names, etc. Yet I and many experts learned these things by playing. So I developed the No Bars Held Held Course so that you would play and create with the essentials using the consistent structure of the 12 Bar blues.
No Bars Held Guitar Course
$279.99
I believe this knowledge will have your imagination flourish with “No Bars Held”.
How you approach the 12 bar blues is how you approach life.
THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF GUITAR KNOWLEDGE IN ONE COURSE!
Lifetime Access to the Classroom
For left handed and right handed guitar
For Electric and Acoustic Guitar
12 Modules that can be completed in a month with 5 minutes a day practice.
Playing the 12 bar blues:
Reveals your inner guitar player and musical DNA
Connects you to a vast community of legends and amateurs to jam with
Teaches music theory, improvisation, and intuition
The course is over 112 exercises, with interactive tablature, and practice audio.
Watch the 20 minute overview video
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
1. The first guitar program to give you guitar god vocabulary and theory through the 12 bar blues and creation.
2. Using the 12 Bar Blues structure, you’ll play along to these videos using the tabs and chord charts at varying speeds.
3. You’ll learn all the fundamental chords, notes, rhythms, and techniques to be a musical alchemist.
4. New Exercises and Techniques added every week
5. Ask Questions in the Classroom
6. Improves Harmony, Intuition, Creativity, and Rhythm
Good Qualifications to have:
Understanding or Willingness to learn/use:
Youtube
Guitar tablature
Ask questions
Complete Each Exercise
Transform what you learn into your own music
ARE WE ready TO MAKE MUSIC OR keep MAKE EXCUSES?
Join the course now.
Full Jams
This is the knowledge to set your imagination free.
Learn the notes on the guitar through the 12 bar blues on each string.
Take this straight line path to success by jamming along with these videos while observing the changes as they progress.
it’s 112 exercises that use the 12 bar blues structure to teach all the fundamental chords and leads on the guitar while accumulating musical skills like rhythm and harmony.
Clips of Chord Progressions
Measure by measure and by any measure.
Focus on each type of 12 Bar blues to master each level.
You’ll play power chords, 7 chords, Barre chords, Open chords, and simple chords.
you’ll lay a solid foundation for your creativity to flourish.
Clips of Arpeggios
Looking for the golden notes for you melodies and leads?
The key to improvisation is preparation.
This will improve your musical awareness one solo at a time.
2 string, 3 string, 5 string, 6 string, swept, string skipping, and 7th Arpeggios.
Ready to Rock and Roll?
Why this was created?
I sought to give students a consistent predictable framework that students can bend and stretch to their personality too. I wanted to make what I know about the guitar affordable and interactive for the least well of people. Professional Guitar Lessons are $150-400 per month so $1900-$5000 per year; mostly because teachers/students have limited time spots they can teach with %100 dedication to your needs and custom lesson plans. I wanted to help you save time, money, and give you greater flexibility and support using technology. .
The 12 Bar Blues is the most dense, universal, and useful chord progression to learn the guitar and MOST IMPORTANTLY MUSIC! The blues is the true originator of metal. Some may argue classical, but metal is far too rhythmically dense and texturally spicy to have ever sounded good in a cathedral during the classical period.
Who is this for?
This program is for people looking for a map to guitar and musical mastery. People who want to build a solid foundation before they start designing the mural on the ceiling. People that want a fun way to learn chords and how they work together to create atmospheres. Those who want better music awareness in their harmony and rhythm. Those who want a framework to create their own ideas with. People who want to jam with other people. People on a budget that can’t afford private guitar lessons and need more guidance than Youtube, Jamplay, Fender play, Yousician.
The 12 Bar Blues is the test that separates the good from the great.
If you can’t play a “12 bar Blues” you can’t play anything.
I am a musician first and want to put music first. I built this course so people could teach/practice themselves and make music at a very affordable rate.
My goal was to build something very practical and niche that people would use everyday so I could get revenue money from Youtube, the tablature purchases, open up my time more, build a community of creative guitarists, and give back.
I love teaching and learning on the guitar, yet I want to create not recreate. These videos are essential for students to learn. I believe students can learn these videos independently, though I do believe having a teacher will build accountability, be consoling, and more fun.
I believe this course will help you make more music than excuses because all the knowledge is at your finger tips and available 24/7.
I believe this course will help you become a fan of yourself because you will gain insight into what drives you as a musician. What chords, tempos, harmonies move you and where and how you like to play on the guitar.
I am Grant Sherrod and I’m 25 years old. I have played the guitar for 16 years and have taught the guitar for 6 years to dozens of students of various ages, levels, genres, personalities, and guitars. When I learned guitar it wasn’t until I learned the 12 Bar Blues that everything started to make sense. Questions like how do chords fit into scales, how do I know which notes to play, how do harmonies and intervals work, how do I make my own songs all made sense. I also found most of my favorite rock, metal, and blues songs used the 12 Bar in their songs too. Now I find it harder not to think of new ideas!
I’ve taught guitar in home, at the Garage Band Academy, The Bay Area Academy of Music, and at Guitar Center. Now I teach guitar online.
My motivation/learning type is “Give me a map and let me explore” and I like to teach students that way too. I get most excited at creating better ways of achieving goals and creating interactive experiences; which is why I studied Philosophy and Kinesiology.
I have two main goals in my life I’d like to be remembered for “I helped people make more music than excuses” and “I helped people become fans of themselves”. This guitar program embodies both of these principles.
My Guitar Journey
Age 12 with the Flying V.
I was 9 years old and went to my grandmas house to show her I can play “Smoke on the Water” on my mini toy guitar. She switched it with her real guitar, showed me three chords, and then I could play: Oh Susana, Coming Around the Mountain, and Down in the Valley. I was amazed that learning three or four chords could help me play so many songs! Promptly, I attained an electric guitar which I learned techniques, chords, and scales from songs to experiment and create as well. I Enrolled in private lessons where my teacher showed me: the pentatonic scales across the fretboard, the power chords, and the 12 Bar Blues Progression. THAT WAS THE MOMENT WHEN GUITAR AND MUSIC BECAME WIDE OPEN.
When I was 12 and went to play in bands everyone was amazed I could write my own riffs and solos so well because I knew these principles. I just kept learning new techniques, based on the genre I was interested in, and my playing got better and better. I always had inspiration because I always could find different melodies or riffs using combinations of those essential principles.
Today, 25, I create music on the guitar and help people create on the guitar every single day. I’ve been in blues, rock, hardcore, reggae, and metal bands. At this point all I have to do is set my intention for what I want to learn and I know I can do it. That is the freedom I want all my students and guitar players to have.
I’ve taught hundreds of guitar lessons over the last 7 years and not a single student came in and said “ I want to be a guitar practicer”. We both know they need to practice and learn the essential principles of the guitar. Scales, chords, arpeggios, harmony, techniques, note names, etc. Yet I and many experts learned these things by playing. So I developed the No Bars Held Held Course so that you would play the 12 bar blues
Namaste 🕉
Ready to Play like a god
“No Bars Held Guitar God Method”
Students have access to the guitar knowledge of the gods. You’ll follow the path of 12 levels to guitar ascension playing along with videos and transforming the exercises to your own genre and style. There are over 200 videos, recordings, drum beats. You also have access to recording software and effects.
The course gives you the correct epistemology to understand music and guitar theory through playing. The constant is the 12 bar blues and the changing variable is the chords and arpeggios. You’ll learn the secrets to play with No Bars Held.
How You’ll Become a Guitar God
20 minute overview video
Each one of these sections 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.
Welcome Guitar Heroes
This section set’s the stage for you to excel. You’ll learn all about the fundamentals of tuning the guitar, rhythm, harmony, and how to use the online library outside of lesson. You’ll also get the Guitar Hero 365 Practice Playbook and a Motivational DNA Assessment test.
Welcome to the Musical Laboratory
Here you will have every element you could possibly ever need for making and learning music. You have over 400 recorded audio tracks for every scale, chord, and drum beat possible. There is no excuse as to what you should learn next or what you can create.
Welcome Aboard Musical Navigator
In this section you will find all the maps to music and the guitar. You have over 200 chord and arpeggio exercises as pdf tablature or as dynamic tablature. You also have over 100 different scale charts for any key. There are blank tablature, chord, fretboard, and song machine paper so you can chronicle your musical adventures
White- Lay of the land
This acquaints you with your instrument so you can tame the guitar neck.
You will map out and tame the guitar neck and chord progressions. You will get your hands and heart in unison. You will learn simple chords, all the notes on the fretboard, guitar leads, and the pentatonic scales using the 12 bar blues. This acquaints you with your instrument so you can tame the guitar neck.
Yellow- Get Your STripes
You’ll understand how to write your own guitar riffs and shred like a God using the knowledge you have already.
We will add spice, character, and nuance to your playing. You will learn the blues pentatonic scales and open chords. You’ll understand how to read a scale chart. Play with a drum beat and power chords.
You’ll get introduced to finger picking and sequencing chords .
Gold- Get Your Wings
You will learn how to fly like a bird on the guitar. You will be able to play forwards, backwards, diagonally effortless on the entire guitar neck.
We will map out the arpeggios using 2 string “Randy Rhaods” triads as well as the pentatonic scales horizontally for vocal like melodies.
You will escalate your harmony from power chords to thirds so you can add warmth and dimension to your playing.
Orange-
“Fail it until you nail it”
When the koi fish can swim all the way up the yellow river it is challenged. Swimming upstream and persevering it gains strength and magical power. As it scales the river and treks up the waterfall it transforms into the Dragon Koi.
You will develop your fret hand strength and your picking hand strumming and sequencing. This ads more character and options for playing songs at differnent parts of the neck.
In this section of the course you will be introduced to a new key- E minor and G major. You will also be introducing the 7th to your harmony vocabulary.
You will learn how to do Barre Chords and switch open chords effortlessly. You will jump from string to string like a koi swimming up the water.
You will have a strong and confident frethand that is unafraid to weather any storm and you can control the current.
Green- Getting the Hang of it
Eternally patience and able to hold its own you will solidify and go deeper into the E minor and G major scales. This gives you more control over your songs moods as well as gives you the fire to stand out with the added F#.
You will internalize your knowledge of harmony to learn string skipping arpeggios.
While turtles are slow on land they are quick in the water. You will learn to play eight note power chords and change fluidly and with strength.
Blue- speed racer
This is where the rubber meets the road. You will learn to accelerate your legato and muting style using the Racer X arpeggios. You will learn how to do classical style pedal tones that fly at the speed of sound. This gives you complete control and precision on picking the strings. It improves your fretboard reach and you can make some aggressive sounding arpeggio solos.
Purple- Sweep the Competition
In this section you will control the currents and learn how to improvise and harmonize in chaotic situations. We get more disciplined in learning the modal qualities of scales and arpeggios. You will have accurate knowledge of all possible harmonies depending on the chord being played. You will learn how to add more character to your playing using the 7th chords. Sweeping picking will have you playing enough notes for a tsunami sound wave.
Brown- The Brown Note
Eddie Van Halens famous “brown sound” rig captivated millions of fans with his signature sound. We take a deeper dive into playing 7th chord apreggios and bars in each mode.
You will be able to overlap and mix E minor and A minor seamlessly to get a whole new sound.
Red- Use it or lose it
The pheonix regenerates and blooms with fire. In this section you will learn how to transform all the scales you’ve learned so far by breaking them apart. This concept is called sequencing.
It rises and falls in a sonic cascade that captivates and breathes new life into your melodies. Or helps you descending the scale in a tense and emotional way.
Black level one- Musical Alchemist
We start to break down conventional ways of looking at chords and keys. We play to the moment happening in the moment. That way we can manifest magic and all that you have learned at any situation.
We will look at using the modal scales over chords that harmonize. This is how jazz and fusion players create interesting alloys and magically harmonies.
Down to the Crossroads
In this section I show my favorite advanced guitar licks, riffs, and techniques. You can show down with me like the Karate Kid did with my hero Steve Vai. At this point you should have the knowledge and skill to play with gods.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU COULD PLAY GUITAR LIKE A GOD?
HOW WOULD YOU LIFE BE IF YOU MADE MORE MUSIC THAN EXCUSES?
No Bars Held Guitar Course
$279.99
We have promotional pricing for the first 100 guitar heroes.
Make Music Guarantee
If you’re hesitant or unsatisfied, I offer a 60 day money back guarantee!
I offer this because I’ve never had students who awaken the rockstar creator within want to stop. I understand not everyone wants to be a guitar god.
You either love it or don’t. It’s that simple.
We can both say we did our best to make more music than excuses.
FINAL CHANCE.. LET’S ROCK AND ROLL
No Bars Held Guitar Course
$279.99
Guitar Hero Students
SongWriter in action
Ryan leading the band in one of his songs he wrote. We took the notes and principles from the piano and transformed them into guitar for a mix of electronic and realistic sounds.
Grant Us Guitar Lessons
No Bars Held Guitar Course
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