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A Straight Path Through Guitar Fluency
The Guitar Mastery Intensive is a three month intensive program designed to help intermediate guitar players break out of multi year plateaus, attain fretboard fluency and advance many years forward in their guitar playing in a short period of time.
The curriculum is the product of over 17 years of teaching experience and is custom tailored to the needs of each student. We’ve taken the traditional approach to teaching the guitar and brought it into the year 2020.
Guitar Mastery Intensive is quite different from your ordinary guitar program. We combine the best elements of traditional private study, with cutting edge software, techniques from accelerated learning and language acquisition, and direct 1 on 1 mentorship from some of the best guitar players in the world. We carve a straight path from where you’re at on guitar, to a thorough understanding of the instrument in a clear and methodical way.
In addition to fretboard fluency, we teach the core skills that guitarists need to know in order to grow their musicianship. Our students see dramatic improvement in their listening skills, improvisational ability, songwriting, creativity, and ability to conceptualize harmony. Moreover, we give our students the tools and methodology for learning that will serve them in their musical development for the rest of their lives.
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“Breaking Out of the Intermediate Plateau”.
If you’re up for the challenge, you’re ready to attain fretboard fluency and you want the clearest path to getting there, apply for the program today.
Accelerated Learning Software
Our software is designed around cutting edge principles from the world of accelerated learning and language acquisition.
It intelligently coaches you through a process of absorbing, polishing and retaining the core concepts that unlock fluency.
Daily Custom Practice Plans tell you exactly what to do every single day so you don’t waste a minute of practice time.
Chat in real time with your dedicated mentor and submit videos of your playing for detailed feedback.
Mentorship Program
We pair our students with a world class guitar player for dedicated mentorship over the entire 3 months program
Weekly 1 on 1 Private Lessons.
Get an expert opinion on your technique with detailed feedback on video assignments throughout the program.
Unlimited exclusive access to your mentor for any questions you might have.
Weekly Live QnA Sessions with your cohort.
Foundational Skills for a Lifetime in Music
Our comprehensive curriculum will teach you skills that you will use for the rest of your life. You will leave with a clear understanding of the fretboard and be able to apply that understanding in any musical context. You will also be equipped with a methodology for learning new techniques in an intelligent, and systematic way.
World Class Mentorship
Adam Levy
Adam is a Los Angeles-based guitarist with 30 years of experience as a performing artist, teacher, and studio musician.
He has released more than a dozen albums of his own, and is featured on recordings by Norah Jones, Vulfpeck, Ani DiFranco, Allen Toussaint, and other renowned artists. He has toured extensively as a solo artist and as a collaborator. Recently, he has been touring the U.S. and Europe as part of Lizz Wright’s band.
Adam has led classes, private lessons, and masterclasses at universities and academies worldwide, including USC and NYU. He has written numerous educational articles for Acoustic Guitar and Guitar Player magazines, and is the author of the book Play the Right Stuff. He is the host of the YouTube series Guitar Tips, and has released several video courses via TrueFire.
Adam’s teaching style was influenced by the mentors he studied with as a developing player — Ted Greene, most notably. Step by step, he helps his students understand the fundamentals of music and the idiosyncratic logic of the fretboard, so that they can express themselves dynamically on the instrument.
Dr Molly Miller
Since Dr. Molly Miller, picked up a guitar at age seven, she’s been captivating audiences with her sophisticated and raw style. Miller is the chair of the Guitar Department at Los Angeles College of Music. She’s one of Los Angeles’s most sought-after musicians, recording and touring with artists such as Jason Mraz, Black Eyed Peas, Donna Missal, and Morgxn at venues such as the Hollywood Bowl, Royal Albert Hall, Red Rocks Ampitheatre, and Summerfest. She is featured on multiple songs on Jason Mraz’s 2018 album Know. When Miller’s not on tour or in the studio, she heads her own trio, showcased on NPR’s Fresh Air.
While Miller was developing her “uniquely captivating and exciting” voice on guitar, she received her Doctorate in Musical Arts from University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music
Brian Green
Brian Green is a guitar player and producer based out of Los Angeles, California. He has toured, performed and/or recorded with artists including John Legend, Michael Bublé, Nayo, and Kat Mcphee. Brian has also worked as a guitar player for television and award shows including Dancing With The Stars, American Idol and the Emmys. Additionally, he records and performs with the band Pomplamoose, releasing weekly videos with guests including Inara George of Bird and the Bee and Kina Grannis. As a producer, Brian has worked with various artists, including Rozzi Crane, VINCINT and Lily Kershaw as well as making commercial music for major brands and production music houses. Brian also releases music under his own name, including his latest instrumental release, Impressions For Headphones.
Nicholas Veinoglou
Born on June 6th, 1993 in Great Barrington, MA, Nicholas Veinoglou began his hopelessly romantic exploration of the guitar at age 10. Highly influenced from Blues, Classical and Jazz, Nicholas created a unique and flavorful approach to his instrument which paved the road to his musical journey. Nicholas graduated Magna Cum Laude in May 2015 from Berklee College of Music with a Bachelor's Degree in Jazz Guitar Performance and a minor in Harmony, releasing his first album "Love Languages" January 13th, 2016 shortly after. Currently, Nicholas is touring both nationally and internationally with Jordan Fisher and Atlantic Records recording artist Bazzi, opening for artists such as Justin Timberlake, Camila Cabello, Shawn Mendes, Alessia Cara, Calvin Harris, Khalid, The Chainsmokers, Cardi B, Dua Lipa, Meghan Trainor, Plain White T’s, The Commodores, JoJo, and Allen Stone along the way.
Curt Henderson
Curt Henderson is a Nashville-based guitarist, producer, and educator. After completing a degree in Jazz Guitar in his hometown of Vancouver, Canada, Curt made the move to America to pursue bigger opportunities. He has since become a regular fixture in Nashville’s music scene, and can be heard playing, recording, and touring in a variety of genres with label artists (John King, Roosevelt, AHI) and American Idol finalists (Jonny Brenns), as well as working on his own projects. He is also passionate about his work as a featured guitarist and collaborator with brands like Fender and D’Angelico guitars, Supro amps, and many other gear companies. Curt has been invested in teaching for nearly 10 years, and takes pride in helping enthusiastic students develop their skills on the guitar and their careers in music as a whole.
Rotem Sivan
Rotem Sivan’s guitar skills are heralded across the globe. The New York Times has praised him as “more than a very good young guitar player.” Downbeat Magazine has called him “a remarkable talent. ” And universally beloved music platform, Treble FM, has described him as a “bonafide guitar god with rugged Israeli sex appeal and skills that make us swoon.” Rotem tours with his band most of the year playing in world-renowned festivals and clubs. He has performed in countries such as France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Slovenia, Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Israel, UK, Canada and India among others, and has given workshops around the world in top universities and schools.
He has performed at many clubs and festivals around the world such as Polanco Festival, Chutzpah Festival, Marseille Festival, Nice Festival, Exposure Festival, Montreux Festival, Utopia Music Festival, Bern Festival, Ottawa Festival and Sonora Festival to name a few.
Rotem has developed a strong online presence with over 44k followers on Instagram alone. The album "Antidote" (2017) & “My Favorite Monster” (2018) were both charting on Billboard Jazz, and # 1 iTunes iTunes charts and top 100 on iTunes.
Here’s what our students are saying
Derek R.
San Francisco
Ila’s system has been totally transformative for not only my guitar playing, but also my ear and my understanding of music in general. I’ve played guitar for 15+ years, worked with dozens of teachers and studied music at university.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that this system did as much if not more for my playing than the entire 15 years prior.
The acceleration of skill that’s possible with this approach is astounding. I only wish I had this earlier.
Dustin L.
San Francisco
I started playing guitar at 14, played in garage bands throughout high school, and then performed semi-professionally into my late-20s. As much as I loved playing the guitar, I was entirely self-taught and always felt limited by how far I could go with the instrument.
Then one day I looked up and realized—after grad school, two cross-country moves, and several jobs—that I hadn’t even touched my guitar nearly 8 years. That’s where GMI comes in.
At first, the 90 day program was intimidating, to say the least. Would I be able to keep up with such an intense practice schedule? Would I even have fun? What was I getting myself into?! As daunting as it all seemed, the challenge was also quite exciting. At the very least, I knew I would learn a few things, and it would get me playing regularly again. So, I dove in.
Within the first week, I started noticing big changes.
My playing was getting faster and more fluid, and patterns that I initially found to be confusing began flowing with ease. I found a link between my mind and my hands. If my mind was unsettled and my thoughts were scattered and noisy, so was my playing. Training my hands became an exercise for my mind as well, and the two found harmony together. My nightly practice sessions became a welcome meditative respite from the day.
The next big shift came about a month into the program. When I would sit down for some unstructured freeform playing time, the spontaneous ideas that would come up were so much more intricate–and interesting–than what I would have come up with before. My ability to improvise and invent had been leveled-up dramatically.
It’s like I went from finger painting in black and white, to having a full, rich color palette and new brushes.
Looking back now, I’m so happy I decided to dive in! This feels like a whole new instrument to me now. I can’t believe how much I learned, how much I’ve retained, and how much I’ve grown as a musician.
Julia M.
Portland
The best thing to me about this program was that I knew what to practice every single day. It was easy to sit down to practice, I just opened the email and did it.
The way the content of the course is presented, I felt like I was learning the grammar to a new language. I was memorizing and learning to see all kinds of patterns. At the end, I had learned the rules and the theory and had acquired muscle memory.
A few months after the course, I joined a band and since I am the second guitarist, all the skills I had learned came in very handy. I have recently felt like the things I learned in the course are showing up in my playing without having to calculate every single note in my head or look things up.
In short, the beauty of this program lies in the clear path, daily reminders and having a mentor to cheer you on.