Acquire the Skills That Will Remove What’s Holding You Back as a Guitarist, and Unleash Your Full Potential as An Artist
You Are About to Make a Decision That Will Affect Your Entire Life
Acquire the Skills That Will Remove What’s Holding You Back as a Guitarist, and Unleash Your Full Potential as An Artist
You Are About to Make a Decision That Will Affect Your Entire Life
Years ago, you might've made a choice.

Like so many guitarists... You decided to pursue everything else in life instead of your music.
  • Maybe you didn’t make this decision. Maybe something forced your hand.
  • Maybe you ended up having kids, and that became the priority.
  • Maybe you needed to make money, so you found yourself diving deep into your career and business.
  • ​Maybe you had health challenges, or someone you love did.
  • ​Maybe you got caught up in school and your studies, going for your degree.
  • ​Maybe your progress on the guitar and as a musician stalled, and it just got too frustrating for you.
  • ​Maybe the demands of life just made it harder and harder to put in the time to practice, and put in the time to write music.
Whatever the case… your guitar started collecting dust. Or it becomes the sort of thing you only played during your breaks.

The music that you know you could make is still stuck in your head, unexpressed.

The skills that you know you could acquire, the potential that you know you could reach, remains an unfulfilled dream.

Or maybe you haven’t reached that fork in the road in life just yet. Maybe you’re lucky enough to be in a position where you get to make the decision now:
"Should I go for it as an artist... or not?"
If you’re able to ask that question and make that decision… I envy you.

And this is your moment to decide.

Let me share a little story with you…
When I was younger, I used to play the guitar for 4 to 6 hours a day.

I had a dream of becoming one of the greats.

I was producing my own progressive metal album by the time I was 17.

It was pretty good.

Then life happened.

Someone I loved hurt me, and I got addicted to video games as a coping mechanism.
My addiction wrecked my wrists with tendonitis, so I could no longer play the guitar.

I had to find a new path in life.

I ended up pursuing several things, but one thing in particular:

Business.

And by most people’s standards, I succeeded.

But by my own standards… I made a big mistake.

I let my dreams as an artist wither and die.

I learned a lot. There’s much that life taught me so as to make the journey worthwhile.

But I’m not ashamed to admit, and can come right out and confess it:

I regret not pursuing my dreams as a musician. As a guitarist. As an artist.

Now, I still made music. I’ve played in bands, performed in front of thousands, I’ve had a couple of albums and some music featured in video games.

But my dreams as an artist? I’ve barely scratched the surface of fulfilling.

And I have to tell you:

It hurts. It hurts to have a dream and know that you haven’t fully gone for it.

And can you imagine what that’ll feel like on your deathbed? To look back and know, in your heart of hearts, that you didn’t fully go for your dream?

I shudder at the thought.

So I have a heart for artists. I have a burning passion to see artists succeed wildly.

And thankfully, because I’m an artist at heart, but I decided to be an entrepreneur instead… I’ve been able to merge both worlds.

In merging those two worlds, I’ve become uncommonly effective at providing artists a systematic and proven process to fulfill their potential and reach their dreams.

And to do it now… not “someday.”
We Both Know:
"Someday" is a Lie
“Someday” doesn’t exist.

“Someday” is like an opiate. A thing we tell ourselves to help us get through the drearier days we face.

If you know that you are an artist at heart, and know that you’ll regret it if you don’t go for your most wild, ambitious, artistic dreams… then listen up:

This is your moment.

If you’ve abandoned the dream, this is your chance to reclaim it.

If you haven’t yet made the decision to go for your dream, this is the permission you need to pursue it.

What you’re about to experience is not something casual.

This experience is more akin to an invitation for radical redemption… or living a life without regret.
👉  You can redeem the artist within.

👉  And you can go full steam ahead if you’ve still got that spark, and life hasn’t beaten it out of you.

👉  You can make the music that you were born to make. The music that’s begging to be expressed.

👉  You can share your music with the hearts and minds of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people.

👉  You can realize your full potential as a guitarist, and become the player you know you’re capable of being.

👉  You can inspire others with your playing, leading out as a role model, setting the stage for a whole new generation of guitarists to look up to you as your influence.

👉  You can change the musical landscape, redefine a genre, make something that no one has ever heard before.

👉  You can tour and play your heart out on stages all around the world, with people dancing or singing along to your tunes.
And we’re going to do it together.

Let me show you how…

What Most Guitarists Will Never Understand…
Here’s what business has taught me that I never would have learned if I had only ever been an artist:

Most artists don’t have the skills they need to truly succeed.

They are often close to having what they need. But they lack a few of the fundamental “bridge” skills and “meta” skills that are required to unleash their uninhibited potential.

But once you have these “meta” skills under your belt… what you unlock is...
...unobstructed creativity.
You can play whatever you want, whenever you want.

You can create whatever you want, whenever you want.
Any idea that you have in your head you can make a reality, and you can share it with others and blow their minds, open their hearts, and make their life a bit better through your unique music.

You can play. You can compose. You can produce. You can perform.

And when you do all of this… it feels so damn good, you’ll get addicted to it.

But there’s a careful distinction that must be made before I tell you how we’re going to make this happen:
You Are a Unique Artist
  • There’s something you can do with the instrument that no one else can.
  • There’s something you can play that no one else can play.
  • There’s music that you can make that no one else can make.
And what you have to realize is that it’s not about what you can and can’t do on the guitar.

It’s about what you want to do paired with what you, and you alone, can uniquely do.

I see guitarists get in this trap and stay in it for their entire career:

They want to play like so-and-so. John Petrucci, or Stevie Ray Vaughn, or B.B. King.

And that’s fine at first.

But eventually, as you mature as an artist, you realize that the only reason to play like someone else is so that you can develop skills that will help you play like nobody else.

As an artist, what you are is not an imitator.

What you are is a synthesizer.

You take skills and combine them together into unique combinations that are informed by your unique tastes, inclinations, history, background, and natural abilities.

So it’s not about being able to play exactly like anyone else, or as fast as anyone else.

That’s a silly game meant for junior high schoolers.

You don’t want to get trapped in that social circle jerk.

A real artist sees through all of that. The only reason why you aspire to play anything like another guitarist is that it brings you joy and helps you become the artist that you are meant to be… not another version of the artists that the world already has.

Steve Vai has already been Steve Vai, doing his Vai thing.

But what’s your thing?

What’s the combination of skills and the unique perspective that you possess that will enable you to express yourself as fully as possible, in a way that is freeing, and unbelievably fulfilling?

That’s what matters.

And defining and living into your unique Artist Archetype is where all of the magic happens.

" If any guitarist is serious about improvement and looking to excel in areas they may be weak in, I'd recommend this."

Mike Caudle

Supercharge Your Unique Skillset as an Artist
(While Supplementing Your Overall Arsenal)
This is underemphasized in skill development:

We pay a lot of attention to our weaknesses when it is our strengths that make us the artists that we are (or the artists that we could be!)

As part of defining your Artist Archetype, we analyze what you already do best and give you the tools and training to make the most out of it, even as we level up your weaknesses.

So don’t for a second doubt your abilities.

If you are trying to live up to the potential that someone else has already lived… you are missing the point.

For the true artist, the fulfilled potential of John Mayer or Tosin Abasi does one thing and one thing only:

It inspires you and points you toward your own unique path.

Your path isn’t theirs. We don’t need another Eric Clapton.
We need you.
When you take inventory of your natural inclinations, your physical limitations (yes, even your limits are part of what make you the artist that you are, because your limitations are actually enablers of creativity if you learn to see and use them as such), musical influences, and current skills… you suddenly start to see what you and you alone can create.

Even if you are already well down the road as an artist… a real artist knows that the art never stops.

You still have a magnum opus. The best is yet to come. 

You’ll never cease creating. 
The ideas are endless. 
There are sometimes so many ideas, you don’t even know what to do with them.

You might be one of those artists who have hundreds of unfinished songs. 

Or rifts that are solid, but they stand alone and you don’t know what to do with them.

Trust me, I’ve been there.

And trust me; there’s a way out.

Every song idea that you have can be finished and fully expressed, in pristine condition, exactly the way that you envisioned it.

And everything that you imagine is possible with the music that you make can happen in the world.

You can make music that people listen to on repeat. You can be the soundtrack to the lives of others, where they form their memories and experience their greatest moments.

Once you do this… life takes on a whole new meaning. It’s not happiness that you gain. It’s not even satisfaction.

It’s purpose.

So let’s talk about how to unleash the artist within.
The Core Skills You Must Have to Become the Artist You Are Meant to Be
Here’s what you need to become the artist you know you can be, and to succeed wildly (whatever that means for you):
Skills of the Craft
The Skill of
Practice
The Skill of
Perspective
The Skill of
Creativity
The Skill of
Circulation
Put simply, you need to be technically proficient with your instrument of choice (in this case the guitar). You need to have enough ability with your hands and enough techniques under your belt to be creatively expressive.

That’s where Skills of the Craft come in. So let’s talk about that first.
My wife’s a drummer.

She used to attend a lot of drum camps.

One of the camps she attended was with the illustrious Benny Greb.

In my mind, Benny Greb is among the greatest drummers of all time.

If nothing else, he’s a bonafide master at the instrument. He’s like the Tommy Emmanuel (guitarist) of drumming.

He gave my wife some advice that I’ll never forget:
" When you practice, if you want to master something, you must work on a single thing for a minimum of three months. "
Now think about that for a second.

If you work on a single thing (and we’re not even talking about a single skill, necessarily, but a single thing) for three months… what do you think is gonna happen?

I’ll tell you:

At a minimum, you are going to emerge from those three months with a nuanced understanding of a skill that hardly anyone can touch.

It’s what creates the “holy shit” effect when people see you play.

It’s what creates that undefinable, intangible quality to your playing that you see from real artists and virtuosos. They don’t play the guitar. They speak through the guitar as they dance with it, and the guitar plays them.

You know what I’m talking about. You’ve seen it all your life, which is part of the reason why you became a guitarist in the first place.

It’s only with that level of focused intensity, spread across a sizable span of time, that you really get to understand the ins and outs of a skill and become effortlessly competent at it.

If you’ve ever seen Benny Greb play… you know that this advice is worth its weight in gold. It comes from somebody who knows what he’s talking about, to say the least.

But here’s what I’ve discovered.

There’s a “meta-skill” that enables you to condense that 3-month period of technical skill development into a single month.

" I have owned a guitar for 29 years. Always wanted to play it... always got frustrated to the point of giving up. Grateful to my friend Joshua who’s coaching and passion really inspired me. It has turned from a ‘wish I could’ to an ‘I’m doing it’ and I LOVE it."

JASON UNRUH

/// Meta Skill #1: Practice (Skill Acquisition) ///

You Can Acquire Skills in a Fraction of the Time

…It’s the meta-skill of knowing how to practice in such a way that yields more progress in less time.

We’ve cracked the code on this stuff inside of the Skill Acceleration Methodology. And it’s been battle-tested with over 3,000 students who have transformed their playing (and their lives).

(You can learn more about the Skill Acceleration Methodology here, if you’re so inclined).

But if you do decide to work on a single skill for three months (as Benny suggests), you’ll only get all the more benefit out of using the Methodology along the way.

So every month, for 12 months, you’re going to deeply develop a single skill for 30 days… armed with the Meta skill of knowing how to practice in a way that’s insanely productive.

So that on the other side of the 12 months… you’ll have a rich repertoire of skills that would normally take a guitarist a decade to develop.

We give you the supercharged curriculum for each skill. This means, you’ll be working with high-leverage practice material that can give you 10x the amount of progress for the same amount of time.

Combined with the proven Skill Acceleration practice methodology… you will compound your progress exponentially.

But it must be emphasized again: you aren’t developing these skills to become complete masters at any of them. You are developing all of them to a level of inspiring fluency and proficiency so that you can combine all of them into a unique synthesis that allows you to fully express yourself as an artist without any constraints on your technical ability.

As a reminder:

It’s not about being the best or fastest alternate picker in the world.

It’s about being able to use the skill of alternate picking to play and create what you can uniquely make as an artist. It’s about being able to combine alternate picking with other technical skills and your own personal inclinations to do something with the instrument that no one else has done before (or to simply do something that you totally love doing).

I always think of my friend Yvette Young here:

She plays piano. She plays the violin. And she plays guitar. And she’s an illustrator.

She was able to take all of those technical skills of the craft, and apply what she knows in these areas to the guitar.

The result? Something unique that no one else has done before. Or, at a minimum, something that is uniquely hers, creating exactly what she wants to create, touring and playing all around the world without fear or limitation.

That’s what it’s like to be an artist:

An artist isn’t trying to be like anyone else. They are intentionally diving deep into who they uniquely are.
What happens when you can effortlessly and fluidly whip out alternate picking, economy picking, hybrid picking, fingerpicking, bending, vibrato, sweep picking, sliding, chord changing, tapping, legato, and pinch harmonics… and move in and out of them and combine them in whatever way you want without even thinking about it?

Well, you get dynamite, that’s what.

And armed with the Skill Acceleration Methodology, this accelerated approach to skill acquisition… you can get there in a year (instead of a decade).

It all boils down to knowing how to practice for maximum progress in minimum time.

Some people know how to do that naturally. But most of us don’t.

It requires an understanding of the underlying neurophysiology of how skill is developed in the body and brain, and practical methods for using that knowledge to become better, faster.

This is what speeds up the quest to develop Skills of the Craft.

You’ll walk away stunned by your progress. And if you share your transformation, you won’t be the only one who can hardly believe the speed in which you upgraded your chops as a guitarist.

But that’s just scratching the tip of the iceberg.

Once you have the Skills of the Craft and the Skill of Practice… if you want to become the artist you were born to be, you need the Skill of Perspective.

/// Meta Skill #2: Perspective ///

Discover How to See the Hidden Code Beneath the Fretboard

Great artists and guitarists have something that would-be artists don’t:

They see the fretboard differently.

This isn’t a metaphor.

A mere mortal will look down at the guitar and see some wood, some dots, and some strings.

They might have a basic understanding of scales, and spot some patterns, and “see” some notes.

But it’s sort of a hazy mess compared to what the masters see.

Their Skills of Perspective are fine-tuned.

They don’t even necessarily know music theory or modes or the Circle of Fifths (though many of them do).

But they see the fretboard in a way that most don’t.

And this skill of seeing the fretboard in a way that causes you to know exactly where to go and what to play in order to produce the sound you want can be taught.

In fact, it’s highly learnable.

With an 80/20 approach to the endlessly confusing tangled web that is music theory… you can unlock the fretboard and see it as a tool for making music, instead of a frustrating puzzle that can’t be solved.

(And if you already know music theory, this will be the perfect time for you to refine and double down and apply what you know to the act of making music).

  • Imagine knowing exactly where to put your fingers to produce the next sound you want.
  • Imagine knowing the exact chords to play to create the tone and texture and vibe that you’re after with a song that you’re writing.
  • Imagine not ever having to stop and think about this. Or having to consult a chord chart. Or read a line of music or tablature.
  • ​Imagine looking down at the fretboard and just knowing.

This is the Skill of Perspective that puts to use all of your Skills of the Craft.

It’s one thing to be able to alternate pick like a boss.

It’s another thing entirely to know how to use the skill of alternate picking to produce the exact notes that you hear in your head or the combination of notes that sound irresistibly pleasing to the ear.

If you’ve ever wanted to strip the mystery out of the fretboard and music theory… the time has finally come.

By learning the Meta skill of Perspective, you’ll finally see the fretboard not for what it is, but for what it can do, the notes it can produce, the sounds it can make… on command.

When you write music, you’ll know exactly what to play next to nail the transition or next part of the song.

When you improvise or jam with others, you’ll know where to move your fingers so that you can contribute and lead the way for the rest to follow.

To use another Matrix metaphor…

Remember the part when Neo could suddenly see the code that the Matrix actually is?

Instead of seeing the false reality and hallucination, he saw the underlying ones and zeros that projected the hallucination.

The Skill of Perspective is like being able to suddenly see the notes and patterns that the fretboard is merely a representation of. You can point to and pluck out and play any of the notes, at any time, knowing exactly what sound it will make, and how it will affect the music you’re making.

You can take what you hear in your head and know exactly where to place your fingers to make what you hear in your head a real sound that you and others can hear and tap your feet, bob your head, and sing along to.
/// Meta Skill #3: Creativity ///

Your Creativity is Unlimited, and What You Can Create with It is Limitless

You now have the physical ability to manipulate the instrument to make the sounds you want.

You also have the Perspective needed to see where you need to put your fingers and when to make music.

Now it’s time to make the contents of your mind something that other minds can hear.

There are two aspects to the skill of creativity:

There’s the state of mind of being creative itself. This is how you access an unlimited flow of ideas, how you can generate new possibilities on-demand, how you can come up with something that no one else has ever thought about.

Then, there’s the ability to create, or the act of creation. This is taming the Chaos of creativity and turning it into apprehensible Order, as it were.

It’s all well and good to have unlimited ideas (and for your ideas to be excellent ones to begin with).

It’s another thing entirely to slow down, focus, and be skillful enough to turn those ideas into something real. A finished song. A finished album. A full career with an epic discography of envelope-pushing creativity.

This is where the fruits of your labor in the skill development crucible come into existence.

I call this turning your mind into sound.

• Imagine never being stuck and never running out of ideas.

• Imagine knowing exactly where to take the riff you wrote or the new jam you started.

• Imagine being able to turn a single idea into a fully-formed and finished song (or album).

• Imagine never having to give in to self-doubt or internal criticism during the creative process. Where you are no longer an obstacle to the flow of ideas, but a conduit for it to happen.

And you are skilled enough to make the idea real, instead of being too limited, too constrained, too technologically bogged down.

So many would-be artists have worlds upon worlds of epic ideas and symphonies and songs in their heads… but they can’t sit still. Or they are too encumbered by their lack of skill, or their internal criticisms to make the ideas happen.

This is a tragedy. And it’s a tragedy you’ll avoid when you uplevel your Creativity skills to new heights.

You’ll enter the virtuous cycle where the guitar is a way to come up with ideas when your mind doesn’t have any… and your mind is a way to generate ideas when none of them are coming out on the guitar.

Once this feedback loop gets going (especially when you start collaborating with other musicians), it can’t be stopped. The tiniest ideas turn into titanic realities.

You’ll surprise yourself with what you create. And you’ll get to rest easy knowing that you didn’t hold back. You didn’t stifle the flow. You didn’t leave with your best ideas dying in your head.

They came out, expressed to their complete potential.

Some of your ideas might go on to become smash hits (in whatever way that means to you).

Some of them will connect with a small but meaningful audience.

But all of them will find a home outside of your head. Your creative ideas will become songs that you can share.
There’s hardly anything more satisfying.

Think of it like this:

People spend their whole lives talking about what they’re going to do someday, if only they had the time.

They talk about all the great ideas that they have. They have journals full of unfinished song ideas, half-written lyrics or single phrases and lines, or a phone full of 30-second riffs.

This is creativity half-expressed. It’s hinting at a possibility, but not seeing it through to its conclusion.

This creates a bunch of loose ends. You end up creating a damn in your head. You block the flow.

What does it lead to?

Creative constipation (often called writer’s block).

The ideas stop. And anytime you try to make something, you finish before you even get anywhere interesting. And you start to second-guess your ability. And you spend less and less time creating and more and more time wishing you were creating or distracting yourself from the pain that sets in when you realize that you aren’t.

It’s a terrible position for an artist such as you to find yourself in.

The good news is… if the flow is blocked, you’re about to unblock it and what will inevitably happen over the next year is an explosion of creativity.

You might look back at this time of your life when it all finally clicked. Songs will start to pour out of you. You’ll be more productive than ever. It’ll be the most prolific phase of your artistic life. You may make your very best music during this torrential outpour of creativity (once you unblock the dam).

If you have no shortage of ideas, but you struggle to finish what you start… you’ll finally be given the tools, systems, and discipline to follow through and create (instead of just endlessly cogitate and wish you were creating).

This is all about making the unique music that only you can make. And leaving your mark on the world as a musician with your own signature style.

/// Meta Skill #4: Circulation (Audience Attraction) ///

An Audience of Fans is Waiting to Fall in Love with Your Music

The only thing better than using your skills to make music that only you can make?

Sharing your music with others and getting to see how they respond to it.

The Skill of Circulation comes down to releasing your music and attracting a raving fanbase of people who can’t stop listening to what you’ve made.

This has become easier than ever. And it can happen incredibly fast.

In fact, the first time I used the fan attraction methods that you’ll learn here (which come from over 15 years of experience as a direct response marketer)… I gained tens of thousands of fans within a few weeks.

And I’ve done the same thing for other artists over and over, using the same process.

That means that you go beyond letting your music be yours and yours alone.

You share it in a way that spreads so that all of the people who are most likely to love your music get a chance to hear it.

And if they love it (as many surely will), then you grow a fanbase.

It’s up to you what you do with that fanbase. You can amass a fanbase large enough to tour, or sell out stadiums, or rack up streams on Spotify, or views on YouTube, or make a living full-time as an artist… it’s up to you.

But you’ll discover exactly how to attract fans to your music… rapidly.

It’s always a bummer when you finally put the finishing touches on a song, only to have no one to share it with.

Or worse: you post it on social media, and you get crickets in response.

It can be demoralizing. It can make you feel unappreciated. It can make you want to stop making music since nobody else seems to care and no one else is noticing.

But the main reason why this happens is simply that you didn’t put your music in front of the people who are most likely to dig it!

We can fix that. And we can put it in front of millions of people (depending on the size of your audience) in the span of 24 hours.

And when you do this… life becomes more meaningful than you can even imagine.

And trust me, I’ve been through the wringer with this.

This claim comes from a deep place.

You Are a Music Maker… and It’s Time for You to Own It

You Are a Music Maker… and It’s Time for You to Own It

Remember how I mentioned I got addicted to video games and it prevented my wrists from being able to play guitar?

There was something vital that I learned from that experience.

And it’s something that I don’t want you to have to learn the hard way like I did.

Here’s what I learned about reality, and about our role as artists:

Reality is broken and painful. So we seek pleasure and refuge in sensations that we like.

And great games offer us something so few things in life do; complete presence.

But since at their core, video games are mere distractions from real life, they ultimately leave us feeling hollow and unfulfilled.

As Mihaly asked,

"Is it the destiny of mankind to remain unfulfilled, each person always wanting more than he or she can have?”

We have a choice: We can be victims to the brokenness of reality, and like most; consistently and predictably indulge in diversion and distraction.

In doing so, we ensure reality remains broken, and we stay stuck in a state of exhaustion and dissatisfaction.

Or, we can shape reality into something we like to live in; through the persistent pursuit of mastery and the music we make with that mastery.

There’s a way for you to get the best of both worlds:

Refuge from the brokenness of reality; and satisfying real-life accomplishments.

All it takes is being fully present to the moment you’re in. When completely present, it’s not a matter of where you end up or what you achieve; the process is the point.

Fortunately for us, the pursuit of mastery offers this opportunity and makes it easier and more meaningful than most alternatives.

And it’s up to us to reclaim this opportunity.

For the pursuit of mastery and artistry is threatened and facing extinction.

In a fast-and-easy, instantly-gratifying, dizzyingly distracting world; the desire to struggle to attain skill is waning. And the drive to see it through and suffer all the way to the marvelous emergence of mastery is even rarer.

On top of that, increasingly, the roles that humans once played in society are being outsourced to technology and artificial intelligence. This further disincentives us to hone skills.

But the struggle, the strain, the grueling and persistent cultivation of a craft, and creating something out of that repertoire of hard-won skill… This is a beautifully human endeavor. And it’s moving to see the result of that struggle.

We are engaged in that epic, vanishing pursuit, my friend.

And with our skill, we create sound, and reawaken the awe and wonder that’s inherent in the attainment of mastery.

We make music for ourselves, of course. We create that which we want to exist, giving back to the flow of experience, interweaving our contribution.

But as sound shapers, we also create the soundtrack of other people’s existence. We punctuate the highlights of their passage through this life.

• Babies are welcomed into this world with the gentle touch of our lullabies.

• Children find and form their identity around our melodies.

• Adolescents traverse the country by car, windows down, blasting and singing along to our tunes.

• Brides walk down the aisle to our ballads.  The newly-wed dance to our anthems.

• People come face-to-face with pain, cope with tough times, and climb through the darkness led by the hand of our rhythm.

• Mothers and fathers raise a glass to celebrate birthdays, smiling, surrounded by our sounds.

• The dying inhales and exhales of a life well-lived, exiting this world on a wave of our hymns.

By setting the tone, feel, and color of these events, we make them moments they’ll never forget. We are the anchor; the trigger that causes it all to come flooding back in a rush of emotion.

That’s where we come in, as Art Accelerators. That’s the bigger picture here; the metagame we are playing; we are the aspiring masters and music makers in response to a broken reality.

We make life more beautiful.

If you’re anything like me, embracing my role in cultivating craft, shaping sound, and sharing that sound with the world is more than enough to bring intense presence to my practice and playing. It’s a game of gravitas I’m eager to participate in.

And that’s what you’ll gain with the Skill of Circulation. You’ll make sure that you never confine your art. You’ll give it ears and heads to find a home in, and to circulate all around the world.

At that point, in some profound sense, the songs you create are no longer yours; they belong to the wider world, alive in the minds of countless others, all nodding along to what you once gave birth to.

" I've never been this good at guitar. It felt like I got struck with a lightning bolt of speed and motivation. Guitarists that I look up to are now impressed with my playing and it feels great! "

Nick Devincentis

Here’s How You’ll Get from Here to There in Just 12 Months
So here’s how this process works:

We give you everything you need to realize your full potential as an artist.

Within the span of 12 months, you’ll transform yourself.

The fundamental difference between what we do here and what everyone else does is that we aren’t going to teach you how to become like someone else.

We’re going to give you the tools, training, and coaching to become you, fully realized as an artist.

With all of these technical skills and meta-skills, you become seriously armed and dangerous as an artist.

Because all the while, you are developing one skill at a time, deeply, so that it becomes a real part of your reliable repertoire.

You are learning how to develop those skills faster through effective and efficient practice. You are learning how to apply those skills in a musical context (understanding the relationship between the notes).

You are learning how to create and compose with those skills (use them so you don’t lose them, and use them because that’s the point of learning them in the first place).

And you are learning how to attract and grow an audience through the music that you make, and the playing that you share.

This will be the launchpad of your artistic life. The platform for your freedom. The catalyst for you to make the leap into the life that you know you can live, to express what only you have to give, and to find the meaning and purpose that comes from dying empty (meaning, you didn’t hold anything back, you gave it all, and you lived your dream).

Most artists won’t make this leap. That’s just the truth.

They’ll continue to talk about it, of course.

They’ll continue to dream about it.

It’ll nag at them endlessly.

And they’ll get older and older, knowing that their time is running out.

As they age, it’ll be harder for them to learn. It’ll be harder for them to acquire new skills. Life and its responsibilities and tragedies will bear down upon them… and the pressure will be too great.

They won’t have time to make art. They won’t have time to learn the Craft, the Practice, the Perspective, the Creativity, and the Circulation process to make their dreams a reality.

They’ll get bogged down by work. Or family responsibilities. Or health challenges. Or self-doubt. Or debt.

But if you’re seeing this message, I know that you’re an exception.

So let’s talk specifics, shall we?

" I'm playing faster than I ever have before playing the guitar and it's only been two weeks. ...The methods to your madness work!! "

Michael Thiboutot

Here’s the Schedule for Your Transformation
Every month, you will “install” a new technical skill.

You’ll go through a 30-day Skill Installation Program, where you’ll be given exactly what you need to acquire a skill in a limited period of time.

The skills you will install are determined by your unique weaknesses, strengths, and goals.

You will learn some foundational techniques, of course (or take your current skills to a much higher level). But the curriculum is largely customized and catered to you based on what you want to master.
Alternate Picking
High-speed Alternate Picking is a quintessential skill for shredding and it unlocks access to almost every other skill on the guitar
Tapping
Tapping gives you the ability to play the fretboard with 8 fingers instead of 4. Double the notes. Double the creativity. Double the fun
Sweep Picking
Sweep picking gives you the ability to play a frenzy of notes (sometimes hundreds within a few seconds) with minimal effort. It turns any chord that you know into a wickedly sick arpeggio.
Economy Picking
Economy Picking allows you to play the same amount of notes at the same speed for half the amount of effort and motion
Scales
Having Scales under your fingers gives you the ability to play whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want
Legato
With legato, you can connect any and all notes together in one fluid motions (it sounds amazing, requires less effort than picking, and can unlock new levels of speed with ease)
Hybrid Picking
Why pluck one string when you can pluck multiple strings at once? Use Hybrid Picking to make creative arrangements, beautiful harmonies, and deliver a flurry of tasty notes in one seamless motion
Blues
Even if the Blues aren't your thing... getting your guitar to sing with soul requires some of the style, technique, and voices that originate in Blues-style playing
Rhythm
One of the biggest weaknesses of lead guitarists is that their rhythm game is weak. if you can crush any rhythm, strumming, or picking pattern with perfect timing and precision... you add an entire new dimension to your versatility
Phrasing and Style
Phrasing determines the difference between a robot player whose playing sounds lifeless and stale (and grates on the ears)... and the players that make your ears fall in love with music
Bends and Slides
If you can slide around the neck and nail your bends every time, without "reaching" for the note, falling short, and guessing... the guitar becomes a playground for infinite expression, and it becomes nearly impossible to make mistakes
Fingerpicking
Fingerpicking turns a lead guitarist who is dependent on a pick into a powerhouse player who's a joy to jam with, write with, and perform with – you can breathe life into even the most unimaginative riffs when you can whip your fingers across the strings like a boss
Every quarter, you will develop a new Meta skill.

The Skill of Practice

You’ll learn how to practice in a way that’s profoundly productive so you can acquire any skill you want at an accelerated rate. When you know that any skill you want is within your reach within 30 days or less… you become unstoppable. You get to take control of your artistic destiny.

The Skill of Perspective

You’ll learn how to see the fretboard and all of its notes, patterns, and relationships so that you’ll always know exactly where to put your fingers in order to play what you want. The guitar becomes a vehicle for unobstructed creative expression, a sonic playground that makes everything else boring by comparison.

The Skill of Creativity

You’ll learn how to write, compose, and produce the unique music that only you can make. This is where you express yourself as an artist and live up to your full potential. The feeling of finally seeing an idea be fully expressed, exactly the way you want it… is unforgettable.

The Skill of Circulation

You’ll learn how to share the music you make with the wider world and attract a fanbase of people who connect with and love your music… fast. There’s no high quite like seeing a sea of other people fill their heads with music that you made.
Every week, you will be given a high-leverage training curriculum that will help you make more progress in less time.
Every week, you will get to participate in real-time coaching with a mentor and a tiny cohort of similarly skilled players (so you can all learn faster together).
Every day, you get exclusive access to a mentor in your pocket. This is mediated by an asynchronous video technology the likes of which never existed until now.

With a mentor in your pocket who can give you feedback within 48 hours, you’ll never get stuck. You can get your questions answered day or night, and actually show them what you are struggling with or working on.

Daily "Mentor-in-Your-Pocket" in Action:

Every day, you will have access to a collective of artists who care more about your goals, dreams, and potential than almost anyone else you’ll ever meet. Like these groups of absolute bosses below!
They might even care about your aspirations more than you do. So you’ll never be alone, you’ll always have support, always have a place to turn to if you get stuck, or need feedback or motivation, or want to share what you’re working on and get some encouragement along the way.
" This is hands down the best thing I ever did for my guitar playing. It has changed the way I see and hear the guitar and I honestly feel like there’s no limits to where I can take and apply this methodology. I just wish it was around 15 years ago! This whole experience has reignited my passion for guitar and I’ve never been more motivated or excited to play. Thank you!"

Aaron Shultz

Bonuses That Will Speed Up Your Attainment of Full-Tilt Artistry
Bonus #1: 80/20 Entre-Artist Crash Course
One of the main reasons why would-be artists abandon their dream is simply due to the constraints of finances.

They have to work a 9-to-5 grind and have hardly any time, energy, or attention left over to focus on their music.

In this crash course, I’ll show you the 80/20 approach to entrepreneurship that will enable you to be a full-time artist (if you so choose).

This is what most artists don’t get:

They try to make a living with their art.

But that’s a distraction.

For every hour you spend trying to make a living with your music, you miss out on thousands of dollars you could have made for far less effort.

If you applied 20% of your time to a high-leverage business or crypto investing venture that requires minimal time but gives you maximum rewards… you can claim an abundance of time, freedom and resources so that you can produce more music and get better and better at your art.

The natural consequence of this is that you tend to start making a living with your art. But you don’t make that the priority. That just becomes the bonus that happens naturally over time.

In this exclusive course, I’ll show you how to take control of your finances, so you can be free to make art without worry or stress.

Bonus #2: Instant Promotion of Your Music
If you already have music that’s ready for an audience… Joshua and his marketing team will build your fanbase for you for a full month starting from the day you sign up for Artist Acceleration.

That way, you can see the power of everything that you’ll learn in the fourth quarter of the experience (how to attract fans fast)… and you’ll build immediate momentum toward achieving your boldest dreams as an artist.

The value of this is massive. And you get it as a free bonus as part of the Artist Acceleration Experience.

Bonus #2: The Guitar Gamification App
The Gamification app is a fast and easy way to conduct your practice sessions on either desktop or mobile devices and includes:

1. The ability to easily measure the true indicators of progress known as the Metrics That Matter (Control, Clarity, Consistency, and Musicality––including their sub-metrics) on a scale of 1-5 (in .5 intervals)

2. A “Prompts” Timer, pre-built with proven prompts depending on what MTM you are focusing on (we will roll out custom Prompts soon)

3. An intuitive metronome that features a gap click (with a single tap or click, you can sharpen your timing and prevent yourself from sounding amateur by rushing or dragging)

4. The ability to load exercises and Scenarios (videos, tabs, PDFs) into the app for you to reference (and play along to) while you practice

5. Easily create your own installation programs for any skill (or a mix of skills), based on using whatever Scenarios you want… along with a clear way to measure your progress with any skill over time

In effect, we have combined three apps into one, to reduce the tech hassle and create a productive crucible for your Deep Practice sessions so that progress is measured and practice becomes addictive!
By investing a small part of just 12 months of your time…
that will set you up for the rest of your life as an artist.

If you want in, all you gotta do is click the button below.
When you click that button, you will be given a chance to apply for the program.

I will personally be reviewing each and every application.

Why?

Because the Artist Acceleration Experience simply isn’t a good fit for everybody.

If it is a good fit, you’ll be invited to hop on a call with me or one of my team members (though it’s often me).

If it’s not a good fit, I’ll give you some alternative options that I think might be better for you given your goals.

I’ll never leave you hanging.

Don’t be intimidated by the application.

Just be honest in your answers.

We know who we can best serve, and the application process will help filter out those who will be better served elsewhere.

Here’s what you should know about the intake questionnaire:

Even if it’s not a good fit, the questionnaire will help you clarify your goals, assess your current strengths and weaknesses, and give you a road map that you can use to get you to where you want to go without all the guesswork that holds most players back.

So click the button to apply now:
If you’re not sure if this is a good fit for you, I’ll make it explicit so you can make an informed decision:
Who This is For:
  • This is for you if music and art are central to your life. This is for you if you eat, drink, sleep, and breathe music and are obsessed with it like almost no one else you know
  • This is for you if you know it's part of your purpose to make music
  • This is for you if you are obsessed with learning and developing skills that will make you the musician you know you can be
  • ​This is for you if you can't not make the music you know you're meant to make
  • ​This is for you if you know that fulfilling your potential as an artist is something you'll stop at nothing to achieve
  • ​This is for you if you know that you're much more than just a guitarist, and know that the guitar is just a vehicle for helping you make the music you hear in your head a reality
  • ​This is for you if you want to realize your dreams as an artist sooner rather than later
  • ​This is for you if you can't stand the thought of leaving your song unsung if you know you'd regret it if you never finally fully went for it
  • ​This is for you if you aren't afraid to burn some bridges if need be, to dedicate yourself with complete commitment, and invest your hard-earned time, energy, attention, and money into something that others might even see as crazy, but you see as essential
  • ​This is for you if you are stubborn enough to do what it takes, but also smart enough to know that you can get there far faster with the guidance, coaching, and support of experts who care and want you to live your dream as much you do
If that sounds like you... you are in the right place.
Click this button to apply for Artist Acceleration before all of the spots are filled up for this year:
" I'm already extremely proud and have so much more confidence as a guitar player, at this point I've already reached half my goal, and it's only day 6, and really only my third session. That's just insane to me, now it's time to push the boundaries as far as I can and who knows..."

Trevor Jackson

Who This is Not For:
  • This is not for you if music or the guitar is just a hobby or a way to pass the time
  • This is not for you if the guitar is something that you dabble with
  • This is not for you if the idea of learning a lot of skills in a very short period of time sounds stressful (rather than exciting)
  • ​This is not for you if you don't have the time or haven't made it a priority to put music high on your list of motivations
  • ​This is not for you if you are intimidated at the idea of having to learn (since learning can require hard work)
  • ​This is not for you if don’t have the time, energy, and money to invest in doing whatever it takes to achieve your goals and realize your dreams
There's nothing wrong with any of these things. It's amazing to have music as an outlet, as a hobby, as a creative curiosity. It's important to have leisure activities that help you find fun and meaning in life.

But if the above description sounds like you... this isn't a good fit for you. And that’s okay.

You can still apply for the program, but we won’t invite you to an interview with us (because we don’t want our calendar to be clogged with candidates who really aren’t a good fit).

Do Not Let the Dream Die Within You
My friend, I implore you:

Do not let your dream die.

Make the decision to make it happen.

Be the exception to the rule.

Be the artist you are called to be.

Forget what the world says. Damn the doubters or disbelievers. Dismiss those who might discourage you.

There’s a hefty psychological and emotional price to pay for not pursuing your dreams.

I’ve lived through it. And it hurts like hell.

Seriously, it’ll haunt you.

You’ll live with the gnawing, nagging sense of “if only…”

It’s a perfectly avoidable suffering.

If your dream is dormant, this is the moment to reactivate it so it doesn’t die.

It’s within your grasp.

By this time next year, you’ll hardly recognize yourself.

Click the button below to apply for the Artist Acceleration Experience now
Do Not Let the
Dream Die
Within You
My friend, I implore you:

Do not let your dream die.

Make the decision to make it happen.

Be the exception to the rule.

Be the artist you are called to be.

Forget what the world says. Damn the doubters or disbelievers. Dismiss those who might discourage you.

There’s a hefty psychological and emotional price to pay for not pursuing your dreams.

I’ve lived through it. And it hurts like hell.

Seriously, it’ll haunt you.

You’ll live with the gnawing, nagging sense of “if only…”

It’s a perfectly avoidable suffering.

If your dream is dormant, this is the moment to reactivate it so it doesn’t die.

It’s within your grasp.

By this time next year, you’ll hardly recognize yourself.

Click the button below to apply for the Artist Acceleration Experience now
“Dream the impossible dream. And the world will not grind you under. It will lift you up.”
Terence McKenna
Don’t Take My Word for It.
Here Are a Handful of Artists We’ve Helped Along the Way…

Brand-New to Fluent in 3 Weeks

Trevor Jackson

Stuck for 8 Months. Unstuck in 2 Hours

Julius Trippner, 16, Student, Germany
Get off
the fence.
Make a decision.

You are 12 months away from launching your artistic career and unleashing your best art out in the world.

You’ll be well on your way to becoming the player you want to be. You’ll condense a decade of skill development into a single year.

And you’ll walk away with all of the vital, unspoken “Meta skills” that are required to truly be an artist… instead of merely a guitarist.

If you’re in, apply now while you still can.

Get off
the fence.
Make a decision.

You are 12 months away from launching your artistic career and unleashing your best art out in the world.

You’ll be well on your way to becoming the player you want to be. You’ll condense a decade of skill development into a single year.

And you’ll walk away with all of the vital, unspoken “Meta skills” that are required to truly be an artist… instead of merely a guitarist.

If you’re in, apply now while you still can.

" Wish [Guitar Acceleration] course was available back then. I had no idea that there was a hack for shortening practice time and increasing the effectiveness of it."
P.S. If You Don’t Believe in Yourself… Know This

I’ll say it straight up.

At this moment, I’m your biggest fan.

Seriously.

I want you to wildly succeed as an artist more than I can even put in words.

Being an artist isn’t rewarded by culture in the same way that being a banker or a lawyer or a programmer or celebrity is.

It can be unglamorous. It can be grueling. It’s often frowned upon or devalued. It’s not seen as the responsible thing to do.

But all of that is changing.

Among many things, including the advent of NFTs, there’s a turning of the tide.

And those who are at the forefront as artists are the ones who will, in some sense, help build a new world.

And it’s vital that you have someone who believes in you.

And I do.

Even if no one else does, and even if you don’t yourself:

I believe in you, damn it.

There’s almost nothing more rewarding to me than to see an artist turn away from the conventional path… and decide to push the art pedal to the floor.

Walk away from the bankrupt values that culture has peddled into your head since you were a kid.

You don’t need the crap they’re selling you. I’ve been there, done that. It’s a con-job.

In no uncertain terms: Everything that the world would have you chase, grasp, and desperately claw for will not make you happy.

The grass is not greener on the other side of the nonsense others are distracted by, spending their lives in the rat race, trying to be popular or beautiful or rich, with a garage full of Lamborghinis, and a heart full of emptiness.

But when you make the art that’s in your heart, and give it freely, without holding back?

Believe you me: everything falls into place. And you get to feel like you are doing exactly what you were made to do.

You are in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing.

And you get to leave knowing that when you left, you were doing what you love and do best.

I want whatever music and art you have to uniquely create to overflow out of you, without reservation, and affect the world.

I want to hear what you come up with. And I want to make sure that what you create is the real thing. It’s not half-assed. It’s not “good enough.” 

It’s exactly the thing you set out to make. It’s showtime ready. It comes from the depths of your being, on the other side of acquiring hard-won skills.

I am a stand for artists everywhere. Part of my purpose is to liberate the artist within you. And this is your opportunity.

At this time, we only open the doors to the Artist Acceleration Experience every few years. Due to the intensity of access and the immersive nature of the program, we have limited spots available.

This is not something that you can wait on. If you know that this is your time, then heed my invitation:

It’s time to step up. To stop settling. And to stop dabbling.

Your first step is to own that you are an artist.

Your next step is to stop at nothing to live your mind out loud, and unleash your art on the world.
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Meet Your Instructors

Nathan Turley

Nathan has been teaching guitar lessons for nearly two decades… working with students of all skill levels, ages, and musical backgrounds.

What sets Nathan apart from most instructors is his ability to methodically break down the core components of any skill, and teach with patience and crystal clear direction.

Nathan has the uncanny ability to make any skill digestible, and any exercise easy to understand and maximally productive.

Joshua Voiles

The Artist Accelerator –– is the creator of the Guitar Acceleration Experience, which now has over 3,000 graduates spanning multiple countries. He’s most known for his band, Bloom, and his shred skills (now pushing 16th notes at around 300 BPM).

“When I was a teen, I got addicted to video games (Halo was my poison of choice). In a daze of pixilated blood, I mangled my wrists with severe tendinitis. I had to stop using my hands in most ways, which meant I could no longer play guitar. I went from playing for six hours a day to giving up on my dreams as a musician.”
During the years away from the guitar, Joshua acquired skills in several domains; from Tae Kwon Do to the Pokémon TCG to writing (penning his second book, Distracted to Death), and everything in between.
 
In marketing and business, he generated over $24 million dollars for multiple businesses within the span of a few years. He’s consulted, written copy, and worked with Inc. 500 companies, Navy SEALs and ex-CIA, musicians, best-selling authors and household names, real estate moguls, billionaires, and more.
 
With videography, he started and grew a non-profit media channel and had his videos shared by world-renown actors such as Tom Hanks. Many of his productions have accumulated millions of views.
 
With trading and investing, he kicked this side hobby off in the cryptocurrency markets by turning a tiny bit of capital into a quarter million in 3 months.
He used these modest financial victories to reverse the injuries in his wrist so that he could play the guitar again. 

First, he spent a decade studying, researching, and documenting his process for acquiring skills at an accelerated rate. 

Drawing on the latest breakthroughs in neurophysiology and psychology, he created the Skill Acceleration Methodology and began to apply it to the guitar.
 
“Using this methodology and applying it to the guitar, I was able to make an hour’s worth of progress in 10 minutes… then a month’s worth of progress in an hour, and a year’s worth of progress in just under 30 days. It was wild.”
 
At this point, Joshua had rekindled his love affair with the guitar.
 
Because of the Guitar Acceleration Methodology, he was practicing far less, but playing better than ever.
 
He realized his life-long dream of becoming an Ernie Ball Music Man guitarist, produced albums and performed alongside his wife with his band Bloom, and amassed a modest fanbase online.
 
“I wanted to make sure that the rapid progress I was able to make on the guitar wasn’t a fluke… so I started teaching these methods to others to see what would happen.”
 
Now, with over 3,000 graduates spanning multiple countries and hundreds of transformations and success stories, the results are in:
 
The Guitar Acceleration Methodology works for you no matter what your skill level, age, or style of music.
 
You can now learn the 8 methods Joshua has time-tested in over a dozen domains of expertise so you can install skills at an accelerated rate... and fall in love with the guitar again.
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