Learning Paths

Short, structured courses that put jam tracks, tools, and chord/scale charts to work.
Blues Soloing Beyond the BoxAdvanced
The sequel to the twelve-bar path, for players who already own one pentatonic shape and have run out of things to do with it. Ten lessons on connecting positions up the neck, blending major and minor, following the changes instead of one scale, double stops, turnarounds, dominant voicings for comping, call and response, and triplet phrasing over a slow twelve-eight. Every lesson is worked over a real blues track.~155 min
CAGED: Five Shapes, the Whole FretboardIntermediate
For the player stuck in open position who can feel the neck above the third fret going to waste. Eight lessons take the five chord shapes you already know, unhook them from the nut, and turn them into every major and minor chord in every key — barre technique, roots on the sixth and fifth strings, the smaller partial voicings, and the positional thinking that lets you play a whole song without moving your hand.~98 min
Funk Rhythm Guitar: Living in the PocketIntermediate
Eight lessons on the side of playing that fills the most stage time and gets the least practice: rhythm. You'll build a sixteenth-note right hand, learn the ninth chord funk is built on, work minor seventh vamps and Dorian, lock to a click at real tempos, add neo-soul colours, and learn to solo without stepping on the groove — all over real funk and soul tracks whose chord changes scroll as you play.~130 min
Getting Started with JamtrackersBeginner
A guided tour of the site, from your first backing track to the tools that go with it. You'll learn to follow a track's chord changes as they happen, see which scales fit, find tracks in any key or genre, use the chord and scale charts to practise, and put every tool to work. Six short lessons, no prior experience needed.~66 min
Jazz Guitar: Your First ChangesIntermediate
Ten lessons for the guitarist who can play but freezes when someone calls a standard. You'll learn the four chord qualities everything is built from, the ii-V-I that connects them, bossa nova comping, guide tones, the jazz blues, extensions, the flat keys jazz lives in, and modal playing — worked over real smooth jazz, bossa and fusion tracks with their changes scrolling as you play.~155 min
Music Theory for GuitaristsBeginner
Ten lessons on what the notes actually are and why songs do what they do — the musical alphabet, the major scale, intervals, how chords get built, the chords that belong to a key, Roman numerals, relative minors, the circle of fifths, and counting time. Written for someone who can already play a few chords but has never known what any of them are called or why they go together.~155 min
Music Theory, Part Two: Beyond the KeyIntermediate
The sequel to Music Theory for Guitarists, for players who can find a key and number its chords and now keep meeting chords that are not in it. Nine lessons on seventh chords, inversions and slash chords, the modes explained in a way that is actually usable, why the blues breaks the rules, secondary dominants, borrowed chords, cadences and modulation — every idea checked against real progressions from the track catalogue.~114 min
Rock Guitar From ScratchBeginner
Nine lessons for someone who owns a guitar and can't yet play a song on it. Power chords, the four open chords most of rock is built from, the F chord everybody gets stuck on, downstroke drive, low-string riffs, and a first solo with real bends — every one of them played against a backing track from the first lesson onwards, because playing alone in a room is why most beginners quit.~140 min
Soul Rhythm Guitar: Playing in the SpacesIntermediate
Eight lessons on the most restrained rhythm guitar there is. Soul parts are short, high on the neck, and mostly silence — so this path builds the vocabulary that fits in those gaps: three-note triads on the middle strings, double stops in thirds and sixths, the gospel suspension, the 12/8 ballad feel, minor seventh vamps, and fills that stop before the singer comes back in.~97 min
The 12-Bar Blues, Start to FinishBeginner
The one form every guitarist should own. Nine lessons take you from counting twelve bars in A, through dominant chords, the shuffle feel, the minor pentatonic box and the blue note, to moving the whole thing into a new key, playing a minor blues, and finally peeking at the jazz reharmonisation. Every lesson ends on a real backing track so you play the idea instead of just reading about it.~123 min
What Your Guitar Is Made OfBeginner
A guided tour of the instrument itself, for players who can hold a guitar but have never been told how one works. Nine lessons on the parts of acoustics and electrics — bodies and bracing, bridges and saddles, frets and truss rods, strings and tuners, pickups, controls and amplifiers — what each part does, why it is shaped the way it is, and the problem somebody invented it to solve.~112 min