• Theory. You need to know what notes you can use, and when you can use them.
• Ornamentation. You need to be able to make those notes sound good, exciting and lyrical.
• Rhythm. Your notes need some rhythmic interest.
• Technique. You have to be able to play those notes accurately and confidently.
• Structure. You need to take all of the above and combine them into a structure of some sort, so your ideas don't sound like random "guitar diarrhoea".

This 30+ lesson course is a detailed, step by step program that walks through how to go from playing a simple scale, to having fun creating musical ideas and freely improvising on the guitar. 

This course is based on over a decade of experience of teaching 100s of students how to improvise. None of these students would have called themselves musically talented, none of them would have called themselves creative... they all find improvising the most fun thing to do on guitar.

The course is broken down into five main types of lesson:

• Theory. These lessons will walk you through how to play the right scales in the right places over the right chords. The material is presented in bite-size chunks, with clear practice instructions, video examples and tabs.

• Ornamentation. In these lessons we look at the magic behind taking a "scale" and turning it into a piece of music using bends, slides and vibratos. You will be trained on each of these key skills, so that you can eventually use them effortlessly.

• Phrase Development. This is a key category of lesson where we integrated the skills and ideas in the previous lessons to get you creating actual music.

• Technique. These lessons will be exercises to get your fingers working so that you can hit the right notes, every single time. Ripping through solos, here we come!

• Scale Knowledge. We'll be building your knowledge of the minor pentatonic scale, so that you can use the entire neck, play in any key, starting from any string.

• Rhythm. Learn how to do more than just play a big string of notes. We'll be studying rhythm and learning how to apply it to lead guitar and melody lines in your improvisation.

• Practice Schedule. Every few lessons, there will be a suggested practice schedule, to help keep you on track.
  
  

Now these aren't presented all "in order". We don't do all the theory, then all the ornamentation etc. 

That would be boring and unproductive.

Instead, we cycle through a couple of theory lessons, an ornamentation lesson and a phrase development lesson, etc; so that you can get practice creating actual music and improvising as soon as possible. 

Not only is it more fun, it's also more practical.

There will also be "Practice Plan" outlines every few lessons, to give you some examples of how to plan out practising the last few lessons (e.g. 5 mins on Topic A, 15 mins on Topic B etc).

There will also be solos for you to learn, that take several concepts from the lessons and integrate them into full guitar solos. We'll break these down, and you'll have full tabs with backing tracks.

So how are you going to get these lessons? A lot of courses will deliver lessons in clumped together by topic, for example, you'll get 20 lessons on scales, then 15 lessons on ornamentation, etc.

But we are are going to do things differently.

I've tried to structure this in the same way as if you were coming to my house to take lessons.

Once every two weeks, a new set of lessons (3-5 items) will become active in your account.

You'll be receiving video, diagrams, tabs and backing tracks; so that you are crystal clear on what to practice and it is as easy as possible to practice... and have fun while you do it!

In total there will be over 30 lessons.

Every lesson has a Q&A area, so that if you're not clear on what to do, you can ask a question and I'll get back to you.