Can you hear something, find it on the guitar, and turn it into your own musical idea?

The Deep End: Find Your Voice

4-Week Advanced Guitar Intensive

Listen. Feel. Create.

A 4-week exploration into playing with greater freedom, intention, and expression.

Designed for experienced electric guitarists who already have a strong technical foundation but want their playing to become more musical, instinctive, and personal.

Week 1 — Hear It, Find It

Theme: Connecting your ears to the fretboard

  • Explore how the player currently navigates the fretboard

  • Choose a short melodic phrase and learn it by ear

  • Find the same idea in different positions

  • Explore horizontal and diagonal fretboard movement

  • Connect a melody to the underlying chord

  • Begin using triads and chord tones to locate musical ideas

  • Improvise using a small number of carefully chosen notes

Outcome: You begin relying less on memorized shapes and more on your ears to guide where you go on the guitar.

Week 2 — Play the Changes

Theme: From scales to harmony

  • Take a familiar chord progression

  • Identify the important chord tones

  • Explore simple arpeggios and triads

  • Learn to target specific notes as the chords change

  • Experiment with resolving phrases onto chord tones

  • Compare playing a scale continuously with responding to the harmony

  • Improvise over a backing track with a focus on listening to the changes

Outcome: Your solos begin to sound connected to the music underneath them rather than simply sitting on top of a scale.

Week 3 — Make Every Note Mean Something

Theme: Phrasing, space & expression

  • Explore bends, vibrato, slides and articulation

  • Work on dynamics and attack

  • Use space and silence deliberately

  • Develop short melodic motifs

  • Repeat, vary and develop an idea rather than constantly playing new phrases

  • Explore call-and-response phrasing

  • Compare different ways of playing the same musical phrase

Outcome: You discover that a great solo isn't necessarily about playing more—it can be about making a small number of notes more expressive.

Week 4 — Create Something That's Yours

Theme: From player to creator

  • Create a chord progression or groove

  • Develop a short melodic theme

  • Add chord/triad-based ideas

  • Build a rhythm-and-lead part

  • Develop an improvised solo around the harmony

  • Use space, dynamics and phrasing intentionally

  • Experiment with one or two contrasting approaches

  • Record the finished idea

The goal isn't perfection.

The goal is to create something that could only have come from you.

Outcome: You leave with an original musical idea rather than simply another technique to practise.

The Weekly Experience

60-minute lesson + 15-minute follow-up

1. Listen

Start with the musical idea.

What do you hear?
What does it make you feel?
Where does the tension resolve?
What is the rhythm doing?

2. Learn

Then work out why it works:

  • Chords

  • Triads

  • Arpeggios

  • Intervals

  • Fretboard relationships

  • Technique

3. Apply

Immediately put it into music:

  • Improvisation

  • Backing tracks

  • Arranging

  • Playing by ear

  • Creating phrases

4. Personalize

Ask:

“How would you use this?”

$500 for 4-week program

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Advanced — From Knowing What to Play to Knowing What You Want to Say

The 4-week intevsive gives you a glimpse of what happens when you stop thinking purely in terms of scales and techniques and start listening, responding and creating. Over 12 weeks, we'll take that much further—exploring harmony, playing the changes, fretboard freedom, expressive phrasing, rhythm and lead, arranging, improvisation and developing your own musical voice.

The goal isn't to become a more complicated guitarist. It's to become a more expressive one.