Creative Guitar Bootcamp

STOP PRACTISING THE GUITAR!!

I know that doesn’t make any sense. But bear with me.

Think of all the times you’ve wasted playing the same thing over and over, and not getting anywhere.

Think of all the times you got so frustrated or disheartened because you felt like you were playing worse by the end of the practice than you were at the start.

And don’t forget the (probably thousands of) times when you didn’t practise at all because the thought of struggling through the same song again, mindlessly running through the same scales for the millionth time, was just too much to bear.

Did you make progress in all those times? No.

Sure, you might have seen some progress over time, but I’m willing to bet that was in spite of your practising, not because of it.

Practising – that is, playing through ‘exercises’ or repeating the same song a hundred times to ‘get it right’ – is useless bullshit, to be perfectly honest with you.

It’s a lie we’ve all imbibed from our school days, when our teachers (who probably weren’t that good at it themselves) would tell us to ‘just keep practising’ or ‘practice makes perfect’.

Well I’m here to tell you, they were wrong.

They weren’t lying to you exactly, because they probably believed it themselves: but they were still dead wrong.

Not just because practising and repeating over and over is mindless and mind-numbing. Not just because it becomes a huge barrier to practising. Remember all those times you felt like ‘being a guitarist’ was something ‘out there’, in the future?

Remember when you had these dreams of being a guitarist, just picking up the guitar and playing amazing solos or running through songs like they were nothing, but somehow that dream always seemed just a little out of reach?

You probably thought ‘I need to keep practising’, or ‘If I just learn this one thing I’ll be ready’.

But you weren’t.

Just like you weren’t ready when a friend (or maybe a potential boyfriend/girlfriend) found out you were a guitarist and asked you to ‘play something’, and you didn’t feel any confidence in actually sounding good, because there’s no spontaneity in your playing, no real connection, so everything is from memory, not from the heart.

Maybe you fumbled through something, or mumbled your way through an excuse (I play left-handed guitar, so that was always a life-saving excuse for me!). whatever the case, you knew you’d missed an opportunity.

Practising didn’t help you then, did it?

And practising hasn’t helped you with that feeling of not being ‘good enough’ and not knowing why or how to fix it. You hate getting things wrong, and mindless repetition just makes that worse; the mistakes pile up, your frustration grows, until you’re completely fed up. Or maybe you feel you have to ‘struggle through’.

Is that what guitar playing is about? Struggling? Being disheartened? Feeling like you have a whole bunch of ideas in your head, but when you pick up the guitar something seems to be blocking those ideas, stopping them from flowing out onto the guitar?

Is that why you wanted to learn guitar in the first place? Of course not.

So what’s the solution?

Every time you pick up the guitar, play it instead of practise it.

That means not worrying about progress or getting things perfect; it means letting go and letting the music flow.

Playing the guitar should be a personal, musical, creative experience every time.

You should be expressing yourself – who you are, what you’re thinking and feeling – every time you pick up the guitar.

The guitar should be your avenue to connecting with other people through that universal language – music.

So stop practising.

How do you do all this?

Glad you asked. By focussing on the principles and foundations, not the techniques and surface-level stuff.

Specifically, by focussing first and foremost on rhythm. To be clear, by ‘rhythm’ I DON’T mean ‘strumming patterns’ or ‘bars’ or ‘beats’, or any of that stuff. So many guitar students learn strumming patterns and they end up getting stuck in them, because they never work on their rhythmic IQ.

If you never develop your rhythmic IQ, you’ll always sound like a guitar student, not a guitarist.

The second thing to focus on is chords & harmony. Again, this is not your usual ‘learn some chords’ approach. It’s about an integrated learning style that builds on the rhythmic IQ you’ve already developed to combine it with fluid movement of your chords.

It’s about being creative with the chords you play (and the way you play them).

It’s about knowing, understanding, and hearing the connection between all the chords of a song, and being able to move in and out of that connection, weaving your own personal signature into the song each and every time you play.

After this you need to look at melody. Just like every other step of the journey, this isn’t about learning a few tips and tricks, or learning some skill disconnected from everything else.

Instead, it’s about integrating melody with the harmony and rhythm you’ve already covered, so that

• You can hear the movement of a melody and how it connects to every other part of the song
• You can weave your own melodies in and out of the song
• You can work out melodies by ear
• You can improvise a solid, connected, melody in an instant

The good news is, if you focus on these three principles for just 6 weeks, you’ll be able to play with more confidence, more comfort, more independence, and more music than ever before.

That doesn’t mean you won’t have anything new to learn, of course, and it won’t mean you’ll have completely mastered them either. But by exposing yourself to the language of music, opening yourself up to it, you’ll find it starts to sink in super quickly, and start flowing through you – it’s an amazing experience!

That’s why I created the 6-week Creative Guitar Bootcamp, to give you the tools to stop practising the guitar, and start playing it.

With these tools you’ll become a better guitarist no matter what your current skill level, and you’ll have a solid foundation and ‘big picture’’ ability that will help you with any style of music or guitar playing.

Now, you might be feeling a little sceptical about this.

Maybe you’ve tried other courses or books before, and they haven’t worked for you: I get it, believe me.

I’ve been there, and I spent literally years trying everything I could find, until I realised that my mistake wasn’t my material, but my approach.

I was always working on the guitar, never with the guitar.

Let me give you an example. If you ever went to high school, you probably studied a book in your English class – maybe Animal Farm, by George Orwell, maybe another book. Think back to that experience, and take a moment to answer these questions:

• Did you end up hating the book?
• Have you never picked it up since?
• Do you now find reading boring or painful?

If you answered ‘yes’ to ANY of those questions, then you’ve just found out for yourself the first problem with practising (and the way most people learn in general): they over-analyse.

This effectively kills all interest, and creates a barrier between you and the thing you’re trying to learn.

And yet, we all keep trying. In music we learn scales, arpeggios, theory, we practise finger drills, and so on. And then we wonder why we’ve never reached our goal of actually playing the guitar, or why we’re losing interest.

It’s just overkill.

It’s a lot like learning a language, actually. At the start you don’t know a single word of the new language – let’s say you’re learning Spanish. So when you go to your first class, by the end of it you can speak and understand a few simple sentences, and it feels AWESOME.

All of a sudden, you know some Spanish! You can actually speak it! You can understand it!

So you race back for your second class, but soon you’re learning about conjugations, vocabulary, grammar, etc. – and all of a sudden you’re not learning the language anymore, you’re learning about the language, and you’re not getting any better at speaking it.

This gives us the second mistake people make when learning (including learning guitar):

They don’t immerse themselves in the content.

In the case of language, if you read and speak and listen to Spanish a lot, you’re going to learn it, even if you don’t know a word of grammar (how do you think Spanish babies learn?).

In the case of guitar, if you jump in and start creating music every time you pick up the guitar, you’ll start improving very quickly, because you’re giving your brain and your body the exposure it needs to adapt and connect with the guitar.

That’s why in the Creative Guitar Bootcamp I’m focussing on playing and making music from day one. Let me take you through everything that’s included, and what it does for your guitar playing:

Week:-by-week layout:

Week #1: Foundations of Chords & Rhythm (value $120)

Learn to play chords rhythmically and creatively, so you can play any song easily – or write your own!

Understand primary and secondary chords, so you can work out (or write) songs faster and easier.

Week #2: Fretboard Mastery (Value $120)

Learn the entire fretboard, so you can name any note instantly.

Master scratch styles so you can open up your playing for a more sophisticated sound, and prepare you for fingerpicking.

Week #3: Melodies & Single String Playing (Value $147)

Learn the connection between chords and melody, so you can see and hear music as a connected whole. 

Play any melody anywhere on the guitar, so you can start playing lead guitar, and hone your musical ear. 

Work out melodies by ear, so you can build an intuitive connection between what’s in your head and what you play.

Week #4: Improvising (Value $147)

Learn how to improvise, so you can unlock your natural creativity and start playing confident lead guitar.

Week #5: Foundations of fingerpicking (Value $120)

Master basic fingerpicking patterns, so you can create more nuanced guitar accompaniments to any song.

Week #6: Advanced Fingerpicking (Value $167)

Learn to fingerpick melody and harmony together, so you can create sophisticated arrangements and accompaniments that make you sound like two guitars at once!

BONUSES

Bonus #1: learn the basics of classical guitar,

Expand your skills and boost your technique. 

Bonus #2: The basics of blues guitar

Learn the foundation of all modern pop and rock music.

Bonus #3: Advanced chords

Create more sophisticated chordal sounds in your chord playing

If you wanted to work with me to learn this stuff one-on-one, the price would be at least $2,000.

If you tried to work this out on your own, the price would be years of frustration… and probably thousands of dollars in books or courses or guitar teachers.

But I’m not going to charge you anything like that.

When I was teaching myself guitar I didn’t have money for a teacher, and I didn’t have a lot of money to spare for books or courses either. I saved up and spent money on book after book, and I worked all this stuff out on my own because I had to.

I don’t want that for you.

So that’s why I used to price this course at $197.

At that price, it’s a steal, considering the huge amount of material you get lifetime access to.

But if you’re reading this page right now, you’re clearly an action-taker, and I like action-takers, so I want to give you the best deal I can.

So, if you get the Bootcamp now, on this page,...

It's just $197!

That’s over $2,000 of value for just $197.

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I grew up in a family that didn’t have a lot of money. My mum worked very hard to put food on the table and a roof over our heads, and she was always very careful about where she invested her money. I myself always feel a bit nervous when I buy something online - especially from someone I've never met!

So, I want to put your mind at ease.

I want you to feel confident investing in The Creative Guitar Bootcamp, so I'm giving you a full 6 weeks to learn and implement everything inside the course, and feel at ease knowing that if you're not 100% satisfied, I will happily buy the course back from you.

While I can't guarantee that you'll become the next Lindsey Buckingham in 6 weeks, I am super confident that I've created a killer system that will help you unlock and develop your creativity, and set up your guitar playing on a solid foundation, no matter where you are on the guitar today.

So if you’re ready to stop practising and start playing the guitar, you can get my 6-week programme… go through the entire course… and if you decide it’s not for you, I give you a complete and courteous refund.

You really have nothing to lose.

So what are you waiting for?

Click ‘I want this!’ to change the way you play forever - for just $197!