Guitar Resources

**This is a compilation of the more structured and formal resources that have been particularly useful in my guitar learning journey and may continue to be valuable as I progress. I plan to expand it over time with material focused on specific skills, styles, and areas of study.

I ought to preface that no resources can replace time spent actively doing music. That means consistently playing, composing, jamming with others, and learning songs that challenge you (or simply inspire you). There are no more effective ways to develop as a musician in my experience. Studying what you enjoy, borrowing ideas, and experimenting with them in your own playing is ultimately how you cultivate what people strive for in the idea of "personal style" and eventually see music as a productive medium of expression.

Everything included here, and anything added in the future, should be viewed as supplementary to that process rather than a substitute for it. That said, have fun exploring :)

VHS Tapes (These are the best!!)

Absolutely Understand Guitar (ALL the theory you'll ever need)

Petrucci's Guitar Discipline (Techniques)

Bolton's Funk Rhythm Guitar (Rhythm Playing)

Friedman's Melodic Control (Phrasing)

An Entire Playlist of Vintage Instructional VHS for Guitar

Shorter Pieces

An Actually Decent Roadmap Video

A Good Article Outlining the Process of Composition

Conceptualizing the guitar as patterns/shapes/extensions of the pentatonic scale

FretScience (Game-changing for Improvisation)

Pow Music