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Shredders University 2.0 - The Upgrade
As most of you already know I have been using Skool for a while now as Patreon just doesn't have the tools avalible to help you guys as much as I'd like to So let me tell you how I will guide you to become a Pro Guitarist in less than 12 weeks by using Skool! Here's what you're getti...
Weekly Lesson - How Chords Work In A Scale
This is the last lesson with poo quality 💩This week we’re revisiting how chords work in a scale! this time we’re also looking at how to transpose 🎉You can also look at not the last but the lesson before that to find tab for the three main shapes that we use in this concept! download the ta...
Weekly Lesson - 3 Easy & Flashy Tapping Licks
Here are 3 amazing picks you can use over any Eminor backing track 🔥 although you can use the first 2 picks over any backing track as long as you move it around like I’ve put in the tabs 🎉Take it slow with these as once you have the patterns down it’s very simple to start bringing these up...
Weekly Lesson - 3 Main Sweep Shapes
Hello Everyone 👋Thank you for your patience! Me and my editor were having issues with the audio & video alignment due to my PC randomly glitching through our recordingsSo this week I’m uploading 3 lessons to make up for any missed time & then some 🔥 I have exciting things in the works and wo...
Weekly Lesson - Grouping/Transposition/Economy Picking
This weeks lesson were again looking at groupings again! This time we’re looking at some inside / economy pickingby combining all of this we will begin to move around the fret board with improved accuracy, speed & tonethen we briefly touch on transposition - if you’d like the tab in another key ...
Hello Everyone
I'm going to be filming a bunch of new content for you all next week It would have been this week, but i've been pretty ill, so instead I'm just planning on what to film for you guys I'd love to know topics, solo's ideas you'd like to see me cover So leave a comment and let m...
Weekly Lesson - Note Grouping/Sub Division's
In this lesson I talk about how my live playing used to be terrible and using these ideas I made my picking much more accurate.If you struggle to get your picking tight you’ll enjoy this & there are some easy to follow along licks for you to try too 🔥
Weekly Lesson - Chords into Sweeps
This lessons shows you how I made my most viral video.The basic idea behind this lesson is that we take 4 chords & play the basic arpeggio shapes. The trick that makes this one stand out is adding the 6th interval to both the Dm & Bb.give this a go and let me know how you do 🔥
Weekly Lesson - The Three Sweep Shapes You Need To Know!
These really are the only shapes you will need when you begin to sweep. Even if you don’t want to ‘sweep’ these are arpeggios are super useful. Arpeggios like this are how you can target intervals in chords. In other lessons I’ve put up you can see how to apply this all to a scale! Any quest...
Weekly Lesson - Chords In A Scale #2
Here we’re expanding on a lesson from a few weeks back where we explore how we can use arpeggios in a scale, making melodic passages and playing with intentionDownload the tab and get these under your fingers. There’s only three shapes to learn! I’ve attached Em & Dm because they’re only 2 f...
Weekly Lesson - 3 Note Per String Scales
If you want to become a legit shredder, 3 note per string scales are 100% needed.they’re so easy to accent triplets which most runs these days are if. This will also help with your note groupings!I can’t say enough for these scales, give them a go!
String Skipping Lick #1
I wrote this for a student to help them work on combining string skipping & alternate picking.Pick slanting is massive in licks like this, so if you’re going to give it a go, make sure to looking into Troy Grady’s pick slanting videos!Tab attached at the bottom.
Weekly Lesson - Transposition (Arpeggios.)
This week we’re looking back to our last lesson. This is so that we can look into one of the most important parts of guitar playing, Transposition!Transposition is when we take a price of music & change the notes to change the key. In this video we’re moving arpeggios around the fret board using...
Weekly Lesson - Split Arpeggios (3, 5 & 6 String Shapes.)
If you don’t know your inversions then you’re really missing out. Inversion shapes are some of the best ways to get around the fret board & outline chord tones. Download the tab and have a go!
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Weekly Lesson - Transposing Licks
This week we’re looking at how to take a pick from one key to another. We’re also looking at a very useful pentatonic trick for quick flashy licks with very little difficulty! Give this a go and leave a comment if you need any help 🔥
Eugene’s Trick Bag
Great picking exercise if you’re looking for a challengeCheck for tab
Guitar Solo Commission Lick
This is a lick from a solo I’m working on for someone that asked me to write a solo for their songWhat do you think? Should I post more with the recorded audio?
Weekly Lesson - Crazy Train Tapping
This weeks lesson focuses on the famous lick written by Randy Rhodes for the Crazy Train solo from Ozzy Osbourne.this is a great style of lick to know especially if you can transpose this and use it in your own improv or solo writing 🔥let me know if you need any help!
Weekly Lesson - Moving Your Tapping Lines
This tapping lick is a lot easier than it sounds. Give this a go and let me know how you do!the basic idea in this lick from Killswitch Engage is that we’re using one string to play notes in a minor scale. We move one hand after 4 repetitions of each sequence. Only moving one hand makes this much ...
Selective Picking - First Lick
i shot this for a student to help them understand selective picking You might know this technique from players like Tosin Abasi & Tim Henson 🔥A lot of fun, so give it a go! Download the tab in the attachments 🎉Leave a comment if you need any help!
Weekly Lesson - Diminished Arpeggio Trick
This is a brilliant trick to implement into your writing, improv & general trick bag Whats happening here is the notes in a finished chord are all the same distance apart from one another. They’re all a minor third away in distance. Because of this you can play the same shape every 3 frets and you...
Weekly Lesson - 12th Fret Tapping Trick
Great little trick if you’re looking for a quick and easy lick to implement in your playingremember you can do this on any string!
Instagram Post - My First Sweep
This is the first pattern that got me into sweep picking I picking notes that were diatonic and meant i didn’t need to move my fingers much so I could focus on the picking this helped massively so I thought I’d show it to you lovely lot
Instagram Post - Fan Picked Arpeggios
Give this a go.. it’s a bit trickier than it looks
Weekly Lesson - Inversions (3 string.)
This weeks lesson is on inversions in the higher register making your playing more melodic and purposefulYou only need to learn 3 shapes for both major and minor to be able to get all around the fret boardthen once you’ve got that down you can do this for every chord in the scale - then you’ll h...
Instagram Post - Am in 4’s
This is one that all of my students will recognise!Give this a go and let me know how you do
Instagram Post - 3 Point Minor Scale Run into Dm Arpeggio
Classic me move on this lickI bloody love D minorthere are more to come, they just need to be editedenjoy your early content 🔥
Instagram Post - Em Triplet run into Inversion 3 String Sweep
Great exercise to start or end a solo in Emwill you try this one?




















