Stop running scales.
Start making music.
Most guitarists I teach already know more than they can use. Five pentatonic boxes, some CAGED, a few arpeggios, and every solo still sounds like the last one. I've spent 25,000 lessons figuring out how to close that gap, and everything on this site is built around it.
Start with the free 51 page ebook
It takes the pentatonic scale you already know and shows you how to move it across the whole neck, instead of staying stuck in one box. That diagonal idea sits underneath every course I make.
Read it, play through it, and within a week you'll know whether the way I teach makes sense to you. That's a better reason to buy something than any sales page.
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Turns five separate boxes into one pattern that moves with the music
Licks and exercises you can use the same day
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"No guitarist should ever feel dumb for asking questions and being inspired to learn."
The rule I teach by, since 2007
Hi, I'm Daniel
Talent isn't real. You can get good at this.
I started on guitar at 13 with tabs and a lot of guessing. My first teachers gave me plenty of information and left me feeling untalented. I could play songs, but I never sounded connected, or like myself.
Fixing that took me through classical guitar at UNC School of the Arts, jazz at UNC Greensboro, a master's in New Orleans and lessons with more than 100 teachers. None of it taught me as much as my students did.
In 25,000 lessons I have never once seen talent be the deciding factor. The players who get somewhere learn the right things in the right order, practice them against real music instead of a metronome, and keep showing up.
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Still freeze when it's time to solo? Start here...
Take these three courses in order for the best results.
Step 1
Solo On Guitar: Fretboard Freedom
Connects your scales, arpeggios and CAGED shapes diagonally across the neck instead of leaving them as five separate boxes. The easiest place to start.
Step 2
The Diagonal Pentatonic Method
A full system to turn your pentatonic playing from boring boxes into fluid music anywhere on the fretboard.
Step 3
Creative Solo System
Creative Solo System (CSS) links your scales, arpeggios, and CAGED shapes diagonally across the neck instead of leaving them as five separate boxes, the fastest path to real soloing freedom.
Stuck somewhere else?
There are six more courses for rhythm, the fretboard, theory, arpeggios, modes and backing tracks. Answer a few questions and I'll point you at the one that fits.
I still play out
Everything I teach came out of playing this music for a living first. Weddings, bars, jazz combos, up to 300 gigs a year across the Southeast, then New Orleans, where the groove kicked my butt in the best way.
In 2022 I put out my first solo record, with Jeff Sipe on drums and friends like Mark Lettieri and Tom Quayle sitting in.
Also on the record: Taylor Lee, Brad Walker, Billy Cardine and Matt Sickels.
