The Deep End: Advanced Guided Electric Guitar Program — 12 Weeks
Listen. Feel. Create.
This 12-week advanced electric guitar program is designed for players who are ready to move beyond simply knowing what to play and start developing a deeper understanding of how to hear, feel, and express music through the guitar.
At this level, the goal isn't to collect more scales, chords, or techniques. It's to bring everything you've learned together so that your playing becomes more instinctive, expressive, and personal.
We'll explore the electric guitar as a complete musical instrument—combining rhythm, chords, melody, harmony, technique, phrasing, and improvisation to help you create music with intention.
Most importantly, the course adapts to you. We'll identify the areas of your playing that you want to develop and use the material to help you build greater freedom, confidence, and your own musical voice.
What You'll Develop
Over 12 weeks, you'll work towards:
Playing more confidently by ear and by feel
Connecting chords, melodies, and single-note lines
Learning to "play the changes" when improvising
Navigating the fretboard horizontally and vertically
Developing melodic and thematic solos
Combining rhythm and lead playing
Exploring fingerstyle and hybrid-style approaches
Using arpeggios, inversions, 6ths, and triads creatively
Creating more sophisticated chord progressions
Exploring chord substitutions and extended harmony
Combining major and minor sounds
Developing expressive bending, phrasing, and articulation
Creating complete rhythm-and-lead arrangements
Developing a more personal and recognisable musical voice
The emphasis throughout is on making musical choices, rather than simply executing techniques.
A Personalized Approach
At an advanced level, every guitarist has different strengths, influences, and ambitions.
You may want to become a stronger improviser, develop your blues vocabulary, explore more sophisticated harmony, improve your ear, write your own music, or simply become more expressive and confident on the electric guitar.
That's why this course isn't a rigid syllabus.
Instead, we'll use a collection of advanced musical concepts as a toolkit, selecting and combining them according to your goals and the areas where you want to grow.
If you're already strong in one area, we'll move deeper into another. If a particular technique excites you, we'll explore how far you can take it. And if something doesn't connect with your musical interests, we'll find a more relevant way to approach the underlying idea.
The goal isn't to make you sound like another guitarist.
It's to give you the tools to sound more like yourself.
Learning Approach
Each week follows a simple cycle:
1. Listen
Develop your ability to hear the musical idea before worrying about how to play it.
2. Learn
Discover the chords, scales, techniques, and fretboard relationships behind the sound.
3. Apply
Use those ideas to improvise, arrange, compose, and develop your own musical phrases.
4. Personalize
Take what you've learned and apply it to your own style, influences, repertoire, and goals.
This approach helps bridge the gap between knowing the guitar and actually expressing yourself through it.
12-Week Journey
Weeks 1–2 — Fretboard Freedom
See the guitar as one connected instrument
We'll develop your ability to navigate the fretboard rather than relying on isolated shapes and positions.
You'll explore horizontal playing, diagonal movement, connected scale shapes, and practical ways of using the CAGED system.
We'll also work with triads, inversions, and spread triads to help you see the relationship between chords and the fretboard from a new perspective.
The aim is to give you greater freedom to find musical ideas wherever you are on the neck.
Weeks 3–4 — Chords, Harmony & Voice Leading
Make your rhythm playing more expressive
We'll explore ways of moving beyond basic chord shapes and creating more sophisticated and musical progressions.
You'll work with triads, 6ths, 7th chords, extended chords, inversions, chord substitutions, and voice leading.
We'll also explore techniques for embellishing chords—using hammer-ons, pull-offs, single notes, and other fretting techniques to bring static chord progressions to life.
The goal is to make your rhythm playing sound dynamic, intentional, and expressive.
Weeks 5–6 — Improvisation & Playing the Changes
Move beyond scale-based soloing
We'll focus on developing solos that respond to the harmony rather than simply staying inside a familiar scale shape.
You'll explore target notes, chord tones, arpeggios, interval choices, and melodic phrasing to create solos that have direction and purpose.
We'll look at different approaches to "playing the changes" and explore how great guitarists create solos that sound connected to the underlying progression.
You'll begin moving from playing a scale over chords to actually hearing and responding to the chords themselves.
Weeks 7–8 — Expression, Phrasing & Feel
Make your playing sound like music
Technique becomes much more powerful when it is used expressively.
We'll work on bending, vibrato, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, dynamics, articulation, and phrasing.
You'll explore how to create melodic and thematic solos rather than simply playing more notes.
We'll also develop your ability to play with feel—using space, rhythm, dynamics, and repetition to make your ideas more powerful.
The goal is not to play faster.
It's to make every note mean more.
Weeks 9–10 — Rhythm, Groove & Combining Rhythm and Lead
Become a complete guitarist
We'll explore the relationship between rhythm and lead playing and how the two can become part of the same musical idea.
You'll work on syncopation, groove, playing "in the pocket," fingerstyle approaches, blues rhythm, fills, and techniques for combining chord and single-note ideas.
You'll also explore how to create complete guitar arrangements where one instrument can provide rhythm, harmony, melody, and fills.
This is where your playing starts to become much more versatile.
Weeks 11–12 — Your Musical Voice
Bring everything together
The final stage is about turning the techniques and concepts you've explored into your own musical language.
You'll use your understanding of harmony, the fretboard, rhythm, phrasing, and improvisation to create your own arrangements, solos, progressions, and musical ideas.
We'll identify the areas of the course that have connected most strongly with you and develop them further.
You may choose to focus on blues, rock, funk, songwriting, improvisation, fingerstyle, rhythm guitar, or another direction entirely.
The final goal is not a performance of everything you've learned.
It's to demonstrate that you can take what you've learned and use it creatively.
Your Learning Materials
You'll receive resources designed to support deeper exploration and focused practice:
Chord, triad, scale, and arpeggio diagrams
Fretboard maps and visual guides
Song sheets and chord charts
Tabs and transcription exercises where appropriate
Personalized practice plans
Video demonstrations and examples
Links to backing tracks for improvisation
Ear-training and listening exercises
Technique and phrasing exercises
Personalized repertoire recommendations
Weekly Format
1 × 60-minute personalized lesson
A focused one-to-one session where we'll explore advanced concepts, refine technique, work on musical expression, and adapt the material to your individual goals. A scheduled practice plan will be created.
1 × 15-minute follow-up Zoom session
A short weekly check-in to review your progress, answer questions, troubleshoot challenges, and keep your practice moving in the right direction.
The Goal
At an advanced level, the goal isn't simply to play more notes or learn more complicated chords. It's to develop the ability to hear something, understand why it works, find it on the guitar, and make it your own.
By the end of the 12 weeks, you'll have explored deeper harmony, fretboard navigation, expressive improvisation, sophisticated rhythm playing, and the relationship between chords and melody.
You'll be better equipped to play by ear, respond to the music around you, create your own arrangements, and improvise with greater freedom and intention.
But most importantly, you'll have a stronger connection between what you hear, what you feel, and what you play.
The guitar becomes less about remembering what you're supposed to play—and more about having the freedom to choose what you want to say.
Listen. Feel. Create.
12 week program - $2,000