Break Out of the Boxes

4-Week Intermediate Guitar Intensive

A 4-week journey toward greater freedom, confidence, and expression on the guitar.

Week 1 — See the Fretboard Differently

Theme: From shapes to understanding

  • Establish where the player is currently comfortable on the neck

  • Map out key notes and root notes

  • Connect familiar pentatonic shapes rather than treating them as isolated boxes

  • Introduce a practical approach to the major scale

  • Explore how scales relate to chords

  • Apply the ideas to a simple backing track

Outcome: You begin to see connections across the fretboard instead of simply remembering isolated patterns.

Week 2 — Make Your Solos Say Something

Theme: From scales to musical phrases

  • Move beyond simply running scales

  • Explore bends, vibrato, slides and phrasing

  • Introduce target notes

  • Learn how to deliberately resolve phrases

  • Take a familiar pentatonic shape and create several different musical ideas from it

  • Improvise over a blues or minor-blues backing track

Outcome: Your improvising starts to sound more intentional and expressive rather than like you're searching for the next note.

Week 3 — Connect Rhythm & Lead

Theme: Seeing the guitar as one instrument

  • Introduce basic triads

  • Understand how triads connect to familiar chord shapes

  • Use small triad shapes to create interesting rhythm parts

  • Explore simple chord embellishments

  • Move between rhythm and lead ideas

  • Experiment with adding melodic fills between chords

Outcome: You start to see that rhythm guitar and lead guitar aren't two separate worlds—you can move between them.

Week 4 — Your Own Voice

Theme: Putting it all together

  • Choose a backing track or musical style that interests the player

  • Create a short improvised solo or musical passage

  • Combine familiar pentatonic ideas with the new fretboard connections

  • Use bends, phrasing and target notes deliberately

  • Incorporate triads, chord tones or melodic fills

  • Record a short performance

  • Identify the player's biggest remaining limitation and create a personalized practice direction

Outcome: You finish with something that actually sounds like your playing, rather than another exercise you've memorized.

The weekly structure

Each week:

1 × 60-minute personalized lesson
Introduce the concept, diagnose what's holding the player back, and immediately apply it musically.

1 × 15-minute follow-up Zoom
Review what happened during practice, troubleshoot, and refine the approach.

10–20 minutes of focused practice per day
Not “practice everything.” One clear musical objective.

Backing tracks + personalized exercises
The player should spend a significant amount of the practice time actually playing, not just drilling shapes.

$500 for 4-week program

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Intermediate — From Breaking Out of the Boxes to Finding Your Freedom

The 4-week intensive is designed to help you break out of familiar patterns and start seeing more possibilities on the guitar. The full 12-week course takes that further—developing your fretboard knowledge, triads, phrasing, improvisation, modes, arpeggios, rhythm and lead playing, and ultimately your own musical vocabulary.

You've already learned how to play guitar. Now it's time to discover what you're capable of doing with it.