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Rock Guitar with Paul Gilbert

Master the art of shredding with internationally renowned guitar icon Paul Gilbert
  • Elevate your rock guitar skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate, or advanced player
  • Master rock, shred, and blues guitar techniques including pentatonic scales, alternate picking, string skipping, & more
  • Learn to solo using critical rock improvisation methods
  • Deepen your understanding of music theory and electric guitar mechanics
  • Receive personal guidance directly from Paul along every step of your learning journey
Rock Guitar: Learn more about Paul's course
  • Elevate your rock guitar skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate, or advanced player
  • Master rock, shred, and blues guitar techniques including pentatonic scales, alternate picking, string skipping, & more
  • Learn to solo using critical rock improvisation methods
  • Deepen your understanding of music theory and electric guitar mechanics
  • Receive personal guidance directly from Paul along every step of your learning journey
Select a Plan:
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What's In This Plan?
  • Unlimited Access to Lessons
  • Unlimited Access to Video Exchange Library
  • Unlimited Video Submissions to Teacher
  • Music Theory Workshop
  • Backing Tracks across Instruments
  • VIP Bonus Content
  • 100s of guitar lessons at your own pace
  • All levels and styles of playing welcome
  • Slow Motion & Looping on videos
Experience the Power of Video Exchange Learning®
Video Exchange Explained: how you'll connect with Paul
  • Get personalized video feedback directly from Paul
  • Watch and learn from 15,000+ interactions that Paul has shared with his other students
  • The most supportive way to master rock and shred guitar online
Paul’s Online Guitar Course: The Ultimate Guide for Shredders of All Levels
  • 6 sections covering introductory methods to advanced techniques and songs
  • 125+ multi-angle video lessons for optimal learning and fretboard understanding
  • Tablature, notation and supplemental materials included
  • Exclusive interviews with legendary guitarists like Andy Timmons, Guthrie Govan, Dweezil Zappa, and more
About Paul Gilbert
  • Co-founder of internationally acclaimed rock acts, Mr. Big and RACER X
  • Ranked in GuitarOne magazine’s 2007 “Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time” and Guitar World magazine’s 2008 list, “50 Fastest Guitarists of All Time”
  • 20 acclaimed solo records and a dozen more with Mr. Big and Racer X
  • Youngest instructor in the history of the Guitar Institute of Technology (now Musician’s Institute) in Hollywood, CA
  • Performed on the 2007 G3 tour alongside Joe Satriani and John Petrucci
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Guitar Lessons

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Fundamentals

Introduction to Basic Rock Guitar
Getting Your Sound
Tuning
E Major Chord
Holding the Pick: Down/Up Strokes
Moving Chords
Left Hand Position
The Chicka
Pentatonic Chicka 1
Indestructible Guitar
Chord Stopping
A Minor and C Major Chords
Left Hand Muting
Strumming Accuracy
The Thwump
Bus Fare for the B7
A String Bar Chords
Sus Chords
Power Chord Syncopations
Power Pinky
Time to Crank Up
Palm Muting
Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
Single Note Introduction
Submit a Placement Video
Feeling the Motion
Recap on Strumming, Chords, and Controlling the Electric Guitar
Syncopated Pentatonic
Pentatonic Chicka 2
Bending Strings
Second Bend
Sliding
Basic String Skipping
Rhythmic Bending
The Pinky Stretch
Picking Revolution
Picking Groove Precision
Basic Pull-Offs
Stadium Trill
Pinky Trill
Bending/Pull-Off Combination
Pick Muting
Bending to Chord Tones
The Muted Sweep
Triplet Pull-Offs
Hammer-On Triplets
Shuffle
Upstrokes on a Downbeat
16th Note Triplets in a Shuffle
Shuffle on the Volcano
Big String Skipping Shuffle
Syncopated Shuffle
Heavy Metal Shuffle
Southern Shuffle
Rock This Shuffle
The Thumb is not Forbidden
Intense Thumb
Arpeggiating Chords 1
Arpeggiating Chords 2
Arpeggiating Chords 3

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Intermediate

Pentatonic Solo 1
Pentatonic Solo 2
Pentatonic Solo 3
Pentatonic Solo 4
Pentatonic Solo 5
Pentatonic Solo 6
Pentatonic Solo 7
Pentatonic Solo 8
Pentatonic Solo 9
Pentatonic Solo 10
Pentatonic Unison Bends
Pentatonic Recap
Blues Scale
Harmonies in Pentatonic
Adding Major 3rd and Major 6th
Fast Rock Triplets
Fast Picking Blues Scale
The Seeds of 16th Notes
Fast Descending Pentatonic Pattern 1
Fast Descending Pentatonic Pattern 2
Picking 3 Over 4
Musicality
Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
Submit a Placement Video

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Advanced

Introduction to Advanced Rock Guitar
Introduction to Fast Playing
A Minor Pentatonic 1
A Minor Pentatonic 2
A Minor Pentatonic 3
A Minor Pentatonic 4
A Natural Minor
A Minor 9
A Blues
A Natural Minor "The" Picking Lick
String Skipping 1
String Skipping 2
String Skipping 3
String Skipping 4
String Skipping 5
String Skipping 6
String Skipping 7
String Skipping 8
Time Squeeze
3 Note Per String Major Scale
Scales - Low Strings
Scales - Mid Strings
Scales - High Strings
Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
Arpeggios - Major Triad
Submit a Placement Video
Arpeggios - Minor Triad
E Minor 9 Arpeggio
Blues Arpeggios
Arpeggio Recap
Phrasing
Outro Speech

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30 Day Challenge

30 Day Challenge - 2017 (Archive)

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Power Tools

Shake It Don't Break It
The Thumb and the Thwump
Contrast and CONTRAST
Phrase That Pianos Can't Do
How Angry Are You?
Don't Let the Drummer Be the Only One In the Band Who Rocks
Dum Pah Chicka (Kung Pao)
Giant Finger Endings
Vibrato Up to the Sky or Down to the Ground
Rock Wrist Transitions
Chicka Funka Thumb
Giant Finger Jumping
Dynamic Pentatonic Challenge
Werewolves of Portland
King Arthur's Legato Picking Arpeggios
Minor Mix Up
With a Little Help From Adjacent Muting
Wrist Twist Anti Sausage
Non Widley Sixes
Tears For Muted Picking
Smooth Scales
Anchors Away

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