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I remember my first shred breakthrough like it was yesterday...
I was 14 years old.
I sat in my bedroom, struggling to play this long, fumbling G Minor pentatonic lick. I was growing more and more desperately impatient with each repetition.
Like a caveman desperate to discover fire, I was hunting for those first sparks of ignition. Frustrated, hopeless, angry.
I looked at my hands and conceded that the heavy fingered approach I was employing was never going to work.
So I asked myself, “what would happen if I just pretended to able to play this run?”…
And BOOM. It happened.
The notes went flying like a Delorian, leaving metaphorical flaming-tyre marks behind them. I didn’t understand what had happened, and it took a few more goes to make it happen again. But it HAPPENED.
There’s something majestic about how a sequence of separate notes can be sped up to a point where the sound morphs into the audio equivalent of FIRE.
Just like the way a heavy passenger plane with enough thrust magically lifts off the ground. Or like how the spokes of a wheel change appearance once the vehicle reaches a high enough speed. It tickles the human mind, seeing something work that shouldn’t work.
While it was clear I was onto something, I didn’t understand it. I didn’t even dwell on it. I was just thrilled that I had discovered fire.
My fingers wouldn't cooperate.
So then as the years went on, I kept learning new songs, riffs, licks and runs. I gradually found it a little easier to get my fingers up to speed. But it still felt like a struggle. I couldn’t rely on my fingers to cooperate, especially under pressure.
I thought I was fast, but occasionally would come across a player who was LEAGUES faster than me.
After a brief flash of jealously, I’d dismiss them with the all-too-common phrase “he’s just metronomed it heaps, that’s the only reason he’s so fast”.
Like many struggling shredders, I assumed "the Metronome" would answer all my prayers.
While it certainly can help you improve, I’ve gradually realised its limits and flaws.
Relying on a metronome to reach your shred goals is like relying on a piggy bank to make you a billionaire. While it makes sense for marginal gains, it’s a wildly simplistic & inadequate solution.
But it would be a LONG time before I learned this lesson.
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Flash forward a few years, and I had become a guitar teacher.
Naturally many kids wanted to learn to shred, and I just told them what my teachers had told me: be a good boy, eat your broccoli & play your scales with a metronome.
But almost none of them could get the fire lit. There was something missing.
A vital clue arrived one day in 2010, while I was teaching a 16 year old kid an Iron Maiden song.
He was struggling with a fast run. He could play the notes, but it was like his fingers were seized up and stilted.
I suggested to him: “try playing it without actually fretting the notes”.
BOOM!
It happened. We both looked at each other with visible shock. Woah.
It helped me see what I’d experienced back when I was 14, but from an external perspective. What I experienced that day gave birth to what I now call the “Pressure Point” exercise: A concept that once applied, would make literally ANYTHING easier to play on guitar.
Observing a struggling guitarist is a great way to understand what they’re doing wrong. The answer is usually right in-front of you, if you know where to look.
After teaching 50 students a week for almost 2 decades, I now have dozens of concepts and techniques like this, that have helped thousands of players reach that next level.
You see patterns emerge, and you spot mistakes before they happen.
If you spent 10,000 hours in my shoes, you’d have seen all the same patterns too.
Blind Repetition is not the answer.
If you use the wrong approach to implant any challenging musical passage in your mind, you’re guaranteed to fail. I see it every day.
The Fretboard can’t be forced.
The average person attempts to brute-force way too much information into their brain, at far too higher speeds, and yet they wonder why they don’t ‘have the gift of shred’.
Much of the time, folks think it’s just about getting the right TABs, as if more information is the cure.
Or they blindly believe that if they just repeat this tricky phrase 6000 times with a Chinese Water Torture Device (aka metronome), THEN they’ll be able to shred it at max speed with ease.
Blind Repetition is also not the answer.
We’ve all tried to repeat ourselves out of struggle, yet lo-and-behold when we try and show someone our cool new shred trick, we play it exactly wrong (just like the other 5999 times).
What the average struggler doesn’t understand is that music can be EASY.
In fact, it should be easy by DEFAULT.
I believe that if it’s not easy, then it’s because you’re overwhelming your brain.
If you give yourself a full textbook of information to memorise in 5 minutes, your brain will give you the blue screen of death.
And the shredders we all idolize are not going to make it any easier for you to learn their secrets either.
Who can blame them? They all became famous for their unique approach to speed & expression. Why would they volunteer their secret recipe to everyone? If you had all that life changing money, fame, & cars, I imagine you’d be pretty reluctant to give up your secret weapon too. The last thing they want to see is clones of themselves.
Even Eddie, worried that audiences would steal his revolutionary way of playing, would turn his back when launching into a two-handed tapping run.
Then there’s the guitar industry, who wants you to think that a new instrument is the solution to your troubles, tempting you to spend big on that pointy axe in the hope that it’ll be the final step into crossing the Shred Threshold.
BUT honestly, you can 100% blaze on a cheap Squier Strat, as long as you know how to set it up.
It doesn’t have to be a guitar with a special 'speed neck' or unique ‘slippery pick' that was crafted in a volcano from the ear lobes of ancient dragons.
It’s how you train your hands that counts.
Just about any song is “too hard” if you learn it wrong enough.
If you follow my proven process for learning any technique, solo or lick, then success will naturally follow. Your hands are basically just puppies, waiting for you to train them.
But instead the average struggle-shredder is seduced into playing with force, as their egos write cheques their bodies can’t cash.
Yes, shred sounds loud, aggressive & exciting. But the path up that mountain is NOT the unforgiving cliff face at the front.
The key to finding the secret path up the mountain is HOW YOU PRACTICE.
Every time you sit down to practice, the path of mastery is waiting there right in front of you.
Yet, through sheer naive enthusiasm, the average player bumbles through like a bull in a china shop, implanting disorganised & contradictory muscle memory into each note, before giving up on the piece as “too hard”.
Just about any song is “too hard” if you learn it wrong enough.
And conversely, any song is entirely doable if you learn it effectively.
That’s what Effortless Shred is all about.
It’s about giving you the tools to break down any musical challenge, absorb it, and play it faster than you ever dreamed, with less effort than you could have imagined.
I want you to feel that same sense of fire that I did on that day back when I was 14.
The beauty of it is, the concepts I’m going to share with you in this course are not just for shredding, but for every single thing you play on the guitar.
But, they ARE essential for learning to Shred With Ease.
I’m going to teach you about the Priority Compass, which is a tool I use when learning & preparing any piece of difficult music, as well as how to make rapid gains through The Detective Mindset, Smart Chunking, Rubber Banding, Stretching the Elastic and so much more.
AND…
I’m also going to run you through 60+ lessons on the foundations of all the main Shred Techniques, including:
• Alternate Picking
• Economy Picking
• Sweep Picking
• Scale Runs
• Tapping
• Legato
• Rapid-Fire Licks
Each lesson will be followed by my trademark Drill Videos, which will both imprint the concept more deeply, as well as unlock your speed.
Preorder Edition
75% OFF
$297
$77
Effortless Shred
- 15+ HOUR Video Course.
- LIFETIME ACCESS to the course including all future updates and bonus content.
- INSTANT ACCESS TO THE FIRST 5 HOURS, plus all remaining content (released June 30th).
Bonus:
- DOWNLOADS
•All Backing Tracks
•All Video Content
•Guitar Pro Files
•Companion PDF Booklet
•AmpliTube Presets - 30 SECOND PLAYING REVIEW
•Send me a video of your playing for personalised tips & feedback
•Redeemable at any time
BEST VALUE
78% OFF
$891
$197
Trilogy Bundle
EFFORTLESS
SHRED
+
SHRED LIKE ED
+
SWEDISH SHRED SECRETS
ALL 3 COURSES IN THEIR ENTIRETY, INCLUDING ALL DOWNLOADS & PRESETS
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