Every guitar lesson is built from scratch. Nobody receives the exact same lesson plan. This approach ensures that each student receives material suited for their current needs and abilities. You will always be pushed just slightly out of your comfort zone so you are always learning and improving.

Now, that doesn't mean there isn't a basic curriculum to cover. Every student can learn everything about to be listed. How you get from point A to Z is what's unique. No strict courses here. You are a unique person, and deserve a unique lesson plan.

What you will learn with guitar lessons at Mile High Shred

All the fundamentals to start playing.

• How to hold the guitar.
• How to hold a pick.
• How to properly fret your instrument.
• How to hold and play chords.
• Proper strumming for fluent rhythms.
• How to quickly play single notes.
• How to read tablature (the easiest way to read guitar music)
• How to tap and count rhythm.
• You will be able to improvise your own guitar solos.
• You will learn how to figure out the key a song is in by ear.

How to play in a band.

• We'll talk about what it's like to be in a band, what you can expect, and how to jam with others.

Techniques to be able to shred on the guitar, play heavy rhythms, and own the fretboard.

• Hammer-ons.
• Pull-offs.
• Slides.
• String bends.
• Finger tapping.
• Alternate picking.
• Sweep picking.
• Finger picking.
• Hybrid/chicken picking.
• Nubbing.
• Arpeggios

Any song you want. Whenever you have a song you wish to learn, just say the word, and we'll cover anything you wish.
Students have learned songs from various bands such as

• Iron Maiden
• Slayer
• Metallica
• Green Day
• The Beatles
• Guns N' Roses
• Black Tongue
• Meshuggah
• Opeth
• Black Sabbath
• Arch Enemy
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Marilyn Manson
• Nirvana
• Offspring
• Muse
• And more and more and more!

Music theory applied to the guitar.

• ​Various scales that show how music is built, and how you can make up your own solos.
  • Pentatonic Scale
  • Blues Scale
  • Extended Blues
  • Major Scale
  • Minor Scale
  • Harmonic Minor Scale
  • Melodic Minor Scale
• ​An explanation of what modes are and how they work. The main modes we work with are:
  • Ionian
  • Dorian
  • Phrygian
  • Lydian
  • Mixolydian
  • Aeolian
  • Locrian
• ​After learning how to tap and count rhythm, you will learn how to read standard rhythm notation.

• Extensive chord theory will be explained. Many of the chords covered are:
  • ​​Power Chords (aka 5th Chords)
  • Major
  • Minor
  • Diminished
  • Augmented
  • Suspended 2nds
  • ​​Suspended 4ths
  • 7th Chords
  • 7sus Chords
  • 6th Chords
  • Add 9s
  • 9th Chords
  • Add 11s
  • 11th Chords
  • 13th Chords
• ​Voicings and inversions are also covered in chord theory along with poly chords, and slash chords.

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