The Guitarist’s Path
Intermediate Guided Guitar Program — 12 Weeks
Your Guitar. Your Goals. Your Sound.
At the intermediate level, the biggest challenge isn't usually a lack of things to learn. It's knowing what you should work on next—and how to turn what you already know into better playing.
You may know your open and barre chords but struggle to make rhythm parts interesting.
You may know the pentatonic scale but find yourself playing the same phrases every time you improvise.
You may understand some theory but have difficulty finding those ideas on the guitar.
Or you may simply feel that you've reached a point where you're practicing, but you're not really sure what you're practicing for.
That's where this program is different.
This is a personalized 12-week guitar development program built around your playing. The course provides a carefully structured framework covering fretboard knowledge, harmony, rhythm, improvisation, technique, and musical expression. But there is no expectation that every guitarist should follow exactly the same path.
Your goals determine the emphasis. Your playing determines the starting point. Your progress determines what comes next.
The aim is to help you become a more confident, independent guitarist who understands the instrument well enough to make musical choices rather than simply reproduce memorized shapes.
A Roadmap, Not a Script
The 12-week program gives us a clear direction without turning your lessons into a rigid syllabus.
At the beginning, we'll look at your current playing and identify:
What you already do well
Where you're getting stuck
Which techniques need attention
How comfortable you are with the fretboard
How you currently approach scales and chords
How you improvise
How you approach rhythm
Which areas of theory you understand
Which areas feel disconnected from your playing
What styles and guitarists inspire you
What you'd actually like to be able to play
From there, we'll build your version of the program.
Two students can work through the same core concepts while having completely different experiences.
A guitarist interested in blues might spend more time on phrasing, bends, target notes, dominant harmony, and improvisation.
A funk player might focus heavily on triads, chord embellishments, syncopation, muting, and groove.
A songwriter might spend more time on harmony, voice leading, chord progression, arrangement, and creating parts around a melody.
A rock guitarist might emphasize lead vocabulary, modal sounds, arpeggios, technique, and fretboard movement.
The framework stays consistent. The application changes.
What You'll Develop
Rather than measuring progress by how many scales or techniques you've memorized, we'll develop your playing across five connected areas.
1. Know Your Instrument
You'll develop a clearer understanding of the fretboard so that you're not dependent on isolated shapes.
You'll work on:
Finding notes across the neck
Understanding intervals
Connecting scale positions
Recognizing chord tones
Connecting chords, triads, scales, and arpeggios
Moving horizontally as well as vertically across the fretboard
The goal is to make the guitar feel increasingly like one connected instrument.
2. Understand the Music
You'll learn enough practical theory to understand what's happening underneath the music you're playing.
This includes:
Major scale harmony
Chord construction
Triads
7th chords
Keys
Transposition
Modes
Arpeggios
Harmonic minor
Chord tones
Voice leading
Theory is always connected to something musical.
If a concept doesn't help you understand, hear, create, or play something better, we don't need to spend weeks studying it in isolation.
3. Expand Your Playing
You'll develop a broader vocabulary of sounds and techniques, including:
Bending
Vibrato and expressive phrasing
Hammer-ons and pull-offs
Chord embellishments
Triad-based rhythm parts
Arpeggios
Syncopation
Fretting-hand control
Picking accuracy
Fretboard movement
The focus is not simply on acquiring techniques.
It's on knowing when and why to use them.
4. Become More Musical
You'll learn to connect rhythm and lead playing rather than treating them as separate skills.
You'll work on:
Groove
Pocket
Dynamics
Phrasing
Space
Melodic development
Target notes
Playing the changes
Improvising over chord progressions
The goal is to make your playing sound intentional rather than simply technically correct.
5. Develop Your Own Voice
Everything eventually comes back to this.
We'll identify the sounds you naturally gravitate towards and begin building a personal vocabulary around them.
You'll experiment with different chord sounds, rhythmic ideas, melodic approaches, scales, techniques, and improvisational concepts.
Over time, you'll begin to recognize:
"That sounds like me."
Your 12-Week Development Journey
The program is divided into four stages.
The stages provide structure, but the exact balance of material will be adjusted according to your needs.
STAGE ONE — UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU ARE
Weeks 1–3
Before trying to fix everything, we'll establish a clear picture of your playing.
Week 1 — Your Starting Point
We'll begin by assessing your guitar playing in context.
Rather than simply testing whether you know particular scales or chords, we'll look at how you actually play.
We'll explore:
Your rhythm playing
Chord vocabulary
Fretboard knowledge
Scale knowledge
Improvisation
Technique
Ear and musical awareness
Practice habits
Musical interests
We'll identify a few specific priorities for the next twelve weeks.
You'll leave the first stage with a clearer understanding of where you are and where you're going.
Week 2 — Building Your Fretboard Map
We'll strengthen your ability to find notes and understand relationships across the guitar.
You'll begin connecting notes with intervals, chords, and scale shapes rather than memorizing isolated information.
We'll also identify the parts of the neck where you feel least comfortable and make those areas a priority.
Week 3 — The Major Scale in Context
We'll introduce or strengthen your understanding of the major scale and its relationship to chords and keys.
You'll explore how the scale generates harmonic material and begin using it melodically.
For some students, this may be a major theory focus.
For others, we'll keep the theory lighter and concentrate on using the sounds practically.
The amount you learn is less important than what you can actually use.
STAGE TWO — BUILD YOUR MUSICAL TOOLKIT
Weeks 4–6
Now we'll begin filling in the gaps in your musical vocabulary.
Exactly which tools receive the most attention will depend on your goals.
Week 4 — Triads & Chord Vocabulary
You'll learn how triads work and how they appear across the fretboard.
We'll use them in practical situations such as:
Creating smaller chord voicings
Building rhythm parts
Adding fills
Creating melodic fragments
Connecting chords
Developing voice leading
If rhythm guitar is one of your priorities, we'll go deeper here.
If your focus is improvisation, we'll emphasize how triads reveal the important notes within the harmony.
Week 5 — Chords With Character
We'll explore 7th chords and other ways of adding colour to your rhythm playing.
You'll learn how these chords are constructed and how they function within progressions.
We'll also work on embellishing chords and creating movement within a progression.
Depending on your musical interests, we might apply this to:
Soul
R&B
Blues
Funk
Pop
Rock
Songwriting
The underlying concepts remain the same.
Your music determines how we use them.
Week 6 — Changing Keys & Changing Perspectives
We'll develop your ability to move musical ideas into different keys.
Rather than treating transposition as an abstract exercise, we'll use familiar chords, riffs, progressions, and ideas from your own playing.
You'll begin to see which parts of a guitar idea are tied to a particular shape and which parts are actually musical relationships that can be moved anywhere.
STAGE THREE — TURN KNOWLEDGE INTO PLAYING
Weeks 7–9
This is where the concepts begin to come together.
We'll spend less time asking "What is this?" and more time asking: "What can you do with it?"
Week 7 — Connecting the Neck
We'll work on moving between positions and connecting the information you already know.
You'll explore relationships between:
Chords
Triads
Scales
Arpeggios
Pentatonic shapes
The objective is to reduce your dependence on one familiar position.
Instead of thinking:
"I know this shape."
you'll gradually start thinking:
"I know where I want to go."
Week 8 — Groove, Feel & Rhythm
We'll focus specifically on the part of guitar playing that can't be learned from diagrams alone: feel.
You'll work on:
Syncopation
Subdivision
Accents
Muting
Dynamics
Pocket
Rhythmic consistency
We'll use grooves and musical examples relevant to your preferred styles.
If rhythm is already a strength, we'll push into more sophisticated rhythmic vocabulary.
If rhythm is holding you back, we'll make it one of the central priorities of your program.
Week 9 — Arpeggios, Chord Tones & Melodic Movement
You'll learn how arpeggios can help you see and hear the harmony within a progression.
We'll explore major and minor arpeggios, connect them to chord shapes, and use them to create melodic lines.
We'll also work on:
Hammer-ons
Pull-offs
Fretting-hand efficiency
Target notes
Connecting phrases across the fretboard
For players focused on improvisation, this becomes a major part of developing more intentional solos.
STAGE FOUR — MAKE IT YOURS
Weeks 10–12
The final stage is less about adding information and more about developing musical independence.
Week 10 — Expressive Lead Playing
We'll work on turning technical knowledge into phrases that actually communicate something.
You'll explore:
Bending
Phrasing
Vibrato
Dynamics
Repetition
Space
Call and response
Target notes
We'll also look at why certain guitarists sound recognizable even when they're using relatively simple musical material.
The goal is to begin developing your own sense of phrasing.
Week 11 — Playing Over Harmony
We'll bring scales, arpeggios, triads, chord tones, and target notes together.
You'll explore different ways to approach improvisation depending on the harmony underneath you.
This can include:
Modal improvisation
Playing the changes
Pentatonic approaches
Chord-tone targeting
12-bar blues
Combining major and minor sounds
We'll also explore the modes in a practical context, concentrating on their sound and application rather than simply memorizing seven names and seven shapes.
Week 12 — Your Personal Guitar Project
The final week is about demonstrating what you've developed.
Throughout the course, we'll build towards something that reflects your interests.
Your project could be:
An original song
A chord progression
A rhythm-guitar arrangement
A blues solo
An instrumental piece
A riff
An improvised performance
A complete song arrangement
We'll use the project to bring together the areas you've worked on.
This is also where we'll identify what should happen next.
You'll finish the program with a clearer picture of your strengths, your remaining gaps, and the most useful direction for your continued development.
The Personal Practice Plan
Your practice isn't going to be a generic list of exercises.
Each week, you'll receive a practice plan built around your current priorities.
Your plan may include:
Technical Work
Exercises designed around the specific technique you're trying to improve.
Fretboard Work
Short, focused exercises for developing your understanding of the neck.
Musical Application
Songs, progressions, grooves, riffs, or backing tracks where you can use the week's material.
Creative Work
Improvisation, composition, arranging, or developing your own musical ideas.
Listening
Selected players and recordings chosen to help you hear the concepts we're studying in real music.
The goal is to make every practice session answer one question:
"What am I trying to get better at today?"
The Weekly Coaching Experience
60-Minute Personalized Lesson
This is the core of the program.
Every lesson combines instruction with coaching.
We'll introduce new material, but we'll also spend time listening to you play, identifying problems, adjusting exercises, and deciding what will have the greatest impact on your playing.
If something isn't working, we'll change the approach.
If you're progressing quickly, we'll move forward.
If something important needs more time, we'll stay with it.
The program adapts to you—not the other way around.
15-Minute Follow-Up Session
The short weekly check-in keeps the learning process active between lessons.
We'll use it to:
Answer questions
Review your practice
Solve problems
Check technique
Refine exercises
Discuss what you've been listening to
Adjust your goals
Keep you moving forward
You don't have to spend an entire week stuck on something that could be solved in fifteen minutes.
Your Learning Materials
You'll receive resources chosen and adapted to support your individual goals, including:
Chord diagrams
Triad diagrams
Scale and arpeggio maps
Fretboard maps
Song sheets
Chord charts
Tabs where appropriate
Backing tracks
Demonstration videos
Personalized practice plans
Technical exercises
Listening recommendations
Musical examples
Not every student needs every resource.
Your materials are selected according to what will actually help you progress.
What Success Looks Like
Success at the end of twelve weeks isn't simply being able to say:
"I learned the major scale." or "I know five new chord shapes."
Instead, we'll look for changes in how you actually play.
Can you find your way around the neck more confidently?
Can you take an idea and move it into another key?
Can you make a rhythm part more interesting?
Can you hear a chord and understand which notes matter?
Can you improvise without immediately falling back on the same phrases?
Can you respond to the harmony instead of simply playing a scale?
Can you create something of your own using the material you've learned?
And perhaps most importantly:
Do you have a better idea of what you want to sound like?
Where You Go From Here
The purpose of the twelve weeks isn't to complete the guitar.
There is no such thing.
The purpose is to give you a stronger foundation for deciding what you want to explore next.
By the end of the program, you'll have:
Greater fretboard awareness
A broader harmonic vocabulary
Stronger rhythm skills
More expressive lead playing
A better understanding of improvisation
More confidence connecting different areas of the neck
Practical knowledge of scales, modes, triads, chords, and arpeggios
A personalized understanding of your strengths and weaknesses
A clearer direction for your continued development
Most importantly, you'll have spent twelve weeks learning how to use your knowledge rather than simply accumulate it.
The guitar becomes less about remembering the correct shape and more about making a choice.
What do you want to play?
Why does it work?
Where can you find it?
How can you change it?
And ultimately:
How can you make it sound like you?
Your Guitar. Your Goals. Your Sound.
12 Week Program - $2,000