Oliver Christian, a.k.a Liverplate, is a Brazilian musician, guitarist and composer, with rock/metal/fusion/latin influences. He has been establishing a solid fan base in the guitar world and gaining recognition for his fresh and unique playing style. His demonstration of innovative techniques paired with his melodic sense of style has secured prizes and notable achievements in multiple international guitar contests!
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Liverplate

Stel Andre is a professional guitarist, educator and YouTuber based in Athens, Greece with an expressive, melodic approach to playing the instrument. He is an accomplished solo musician who has also performed on albums by Widek, Distant Dream, Magic Dance and more and is endorsed by Kiesel Guitars and Gruv Gear.

Stel Andre

Borja Mintegiaga is a guitar player, guitar teacher &amp; educator, producer from Donostia/San Sebastián (Basque Country).
He is the guitarist for Lampr3a (Progressive Instrumental Metal), Baalphegor (Technical Brutal Death Metal), Gory Delivery (Brutal Death Metal) and proud endorsee of Kiesel Guitars, Hesu, Swiss Picks and Neural DSP.

Borja Mintegiaga

I Wayan Balawan, better known by the single name Balawan, is an Indonesian guitarist and songwriter. He is best known as a Batuan Ethnic Fusion guitarist and his ability to play double neck guitar. Balawan has developed the 8 Fingers Touch Style technique, which also known as the Touch-Tapping Style. He is often regarded as one of the fastest guitarists in Indonesia. He is also called The Magic Finger guitarist among the world&#8217;s music community.

Balawan

Michael McCrystal is an accomplished rock guitarist and instructor &#8211; having taught students at Academy of Music and Sound, Yamaha Music School as well as various Colleges and Universities throughout the UK.
As a touring guitarist he has performed with the likes of Ron &#8220;Bumblefoot&#8221; Thal, Marco Mendoza and Tygers of Pan Tang &#8211; who he joined as a full-time member in 2016 to write, record and release multiple studio albums.

Micky Crystal

Based in the North of England, Connor Kaminski is a talented young guitarist and a featured artist with brands such as Strandberg, D’addario and Neural DSP.
As well as teaching students online around the world, Connor has grown a reputation as an upcoming artist and an active following on social media. His intricate guitar-work and forward-thinking approach is combined with a flawless technique and desire to experiment, pushing the boundaries of Progressive Metal to create a diverse, fresh sound.

Connor Kaminski

My name is Jesse Michel, I am a guitarist from central California that has a passion for shred! I have been playing guitar for 16 years and was a drummer before that so rhythm and timing have always been very important to me. I toured in a metal band for about 7 years right out of highschool and now I focus on livestreaming and creating content online. If you want to keep up with all my guitar and gaming livestreams follow me over at <a href="https://twitch.tv/jslammin">twitch.tv/jslammin</a>. Thanks!

Jesse Michel

As the other half of McRocklin &#038; Hutch &#8211; Tim &#8220;Hutch&#8221; Hutchinson is known as an accomplished songwriter and producer, but he&#8217;s also a talented shred guitarist!
With a background in both academic education and private music tuition, Tim takes a relaxed, methodical approach to his lessons, teaching sometimes complicated topics in a way that explains things clearly without being overwhelming.
Tim is also a professional music coach, with a passion for helping DJ/producers, musicians and composers to make better music, become better players and build up their music businesses.

Tim Hutchinson

With years of gigging, recording and teaching under his belt, Kieran is an experienced guitar tutor, teaching players from beginner to advanced level.
As well as being the lead guitarist of award-winning metal band Perpetua, Kieran is also an artist with Charvel, EMG, D&#8217;Addario, Jim Dunlop and Horizon Devices.

Kieran Johnston

Thomas McRocklin is an English guitar player, music producer and mastering engineer. He was a child prodigy guitarist and has shared the stage with the likes of Zakk Wylde, Steve Lukather, Stuart Hamm, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, who mentored and produced Thomas as the lead guitarist in Bad4Good as well as featuring him in his music video &#8220;The Audience is Listening&#8221;.

Thomas McRocklin

I&#8217;m about to give away all of my secrets and dissect everything that takes you from a good or great guitarist to an exceptional, pro-level player.
I&#8217;m going to show you all of the approaches that professional players use to be able to play at the peak of their ability whilst also having fun doing it and most importantly, always being in full control of the instrument, no matter the situation. Everything you need to take your playing to the next level is in this lesson.

Improvisation

Tips and Tricks

The Secrets of a Pro Level Guitarist

Introduction

Control

Combining techniques

Milking it

Playing on the edge

In this lesson I&#8217;m going to break down one of the most difficult solos I&#8217;ve written, from my track &#8216;Square Dreamz&#8217;&#8230; with huge stretches and many intricate techniques packed into it, this solo is deceivingly complex to play.
I think you should challenge yourself and let me know if you can get this solo nailed by the end of the year&#8230; but if not, I guarantee you&#8217;ll pick up tons of tips and approaches during this lesson that you can use within your own licks!

Guitar Pro

Text/PDF

Backing track

Arpeggios

Lick Breakdown

Square Dreamz Solo

Solo breakdown

During the McRocklin &amp; Hutch track &#8220;You and Me&#8221; Thomas and I trade guitar solos back and forwards &#8211; in this lesson I&#8217;m going to break down the first solo from that exchange.
This solo strings together multiple techniques such as pick slanting, arpeggios, tapping, cross picking and hammer ons out of nowhere so there&#8217;s a lot to learn! To make things easier I break the solo down into 6 short sections so you can learn a piece at a time in just a few minutes.

Solo 1

Picking

Tapping

You and Me Solo 1 Breakdown

The Breakdown

In this lesson I&#8217;m going to walk you through the 2nd solo from my track &#8220;Waiting For The Right Time&#8221;. This is the 2nd guitar solo in this track and it&#8217;s by far the most intense&#8230;
This solo was actually pieced together in the studio from multiple versions, resulting in something that I would never have played in a single take. It was challenging to re-learn this afterwards, but in the process I picked up a lot of interesting tips to pass on to you!

Solo 2

Waiting For The Right Time &#8211; Solo 2

Solo Breakdown

In this lesson I&#8217;m going to teach you a cool, creative string skipping tapping lick as well some tips to carry out to help you with this style of playing.
Sometimes with licks based on modulations, modal interchanges, complex harmony etc, we can find ourselves a bit lost. I bet you have had that feeling, haven&#8217;t you? Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m also going to explain the harmony behind this lick and how it is constructed!

String Skipping

Intervallic Lick

Theory and Tips

Today I&#8217;m going to take you up to the Shred Club HQ for 6 absolutely killer, finger ripping shred exercises that are going to get you shredding out of your mind!
We&#8217;re going to start off by getting your left hand on fire, then concentrate on the picking hand, before finally pulling out all the stops with some insane tapping exercises to really get your blood pumping.

Exercises

Shred

6 Mega Shred Exercises

Left hand

Right hand

Both hands

In this lesson, I&#8217;m going to give you a complete production breakdown of the McRocklin and Hutch track &#8216;Fingers of Fury&#8217;. I cover everything you need to know about the production of this modern synth/guitar track from drum layering, individual synth sounds, composition, the works!
I also break down an important and often misunderstood aspect of production which is when to change tones during a guitar solo &#8211; both during your performance and in the mix.

Fingers of Fury Mix Breakdown

Mix Breakdown

Want to know how to get more speed and dexterity in your playing? Correctly adjusting your hand and thumb positioning to suit what you&#8217;re playing is something that I&#8217;ve seen guitarists get wrong time and time again and can unlock massive gains in a very short amount of time.
That&#8217;s why in this lesson I&#8217;m going to focus on what&#8217;s going on round the back of the neck, showing you exactly what I do &#8211; in full detail &#8211; as I break down various techniques. Bending, sweeping, tapping, lead playing, riffing&#8230; everything you do is going to improve &#8211; a lot!

Bending

Vibrato

Thumb and Hand Positioning

The Lesson

In this live lesson I&#8217;m going to invite you along with me on a real practice and writing session where I work on refining some licks that I&#8217;ve been working on recently.
One thing that can kill your progress on guitar is practicing in the wrong way &#8211; it wastes so much time and ends up leaving you feeling frustrated at your lack of progress. Follow me on this raw, uncut session and you&#8217;ll see exactly how I identify and fix issues with licks in the most efficient and productive way.

Live

Riffs

Songwriting

Live Lesson: Practicing Licks

If you feel like you get stuck playing vertically up and down in the same position, then you&#8217;ll love this lesson! It&#8217;s packed full of insights into how I approach playing the guitar and how you can combine multiple techniques and sounds together to open up the entire fretboard.
We&#8217;re going to cover things like transitioning between alternate picking into sweeping, moving from chromatics into arpeggios and how to use &#8216;baby&#8217; sweeps to enable licks and phrases that wouldn&#8217;t be possible otherwise and will keep your playing sounding fresh and interesting.

Alternate Picking

Chromatics

Sweep Picking

How I Play Guitar

Blending techniques

Baby sweeps

Moving around the neck

Diminished lick

Bring all the gain you&#8217;ve got because in this lesson we&#8217;re going to get your rhythm playing fired up and push things to the breaking point!
We&#8217;re going to start from the top and break down everything you need to know to riff &#8211; hard. We&#8217;ll work on right-hand details, accents, chord strikes, fitting in licks between riffs and of course &#8211; how to get the perfect heavy &#8216;chug&#8217; on your power chords.

The Beat

Rhythm

How to Riff Hard

Chugs and accents

Split sound

Licks between riffs

Octaves

Ramping it up

In this lesson, I&#8217;m going to show you how a variety of ways you can introduce melody and movement into chord progressions to make even simple chords sound really interesting.
We&#8217;re going to jam around with some of my favourite concepts in real-time so that in addition to picking up some new techniques you can also gain valuable insights into how to apply them to your own playing.

Chords

Chords and Melody

The lesson

Are you looking for some inspiration? In this lesson, I will show how to take boring, tired-sounding octaves and use them to add a uniquely fresh, modern twist to your playing.
From melody insights to techniques and riffs, we&#8217;re going to push this humble technique to the limit and have fun while we do it! It might get challenging in places, but trust me &#8211; by the end of this lesson you will be a much more creative guitarist. Let&#8217;s go!

Technique

Modern Octaves

Have you ever struggled with phrasing and note choice when writing solos? If so, this is a great lesson for you to check out. Follow along as I break down a solo from my track SUDO which contains some quirky phrasing and explosive lead lines.
In addition to breaking this solo down I&#8217;m also gonna show you how I wrote and constructed it &#8211; including how I almost trashed the song entirely (twice) because I just couldn&#8217;t come up with lines that I felt worked in the track. You don&#8217;t want to miss this one!

SUDO Solo 1 Breakdown

Everyone loves to play fast, right? But there&#8217;s a big difference between sloppy licks and exciting, articulate but blazing fast playing.
In this lesson, I&#8217;m going to show you all of my tips and tricks on how to play fast, from how to practice properly right through to how to incorporate your newfound speed into your playing in a tasteful way. Trust me, when we&#8217;re done you&#8217;re gonna be unstoppable.

Speed

How To Play Fast

Practicing fast

Using speed bursts

Playing longer runs

2 and 4 note patterns

In this lesson, we&#8217;re gonna dive into a couple of big-time shred licks which both use very specific approaches that you&#8217;ll need to learn if you want to deliver them at speed.
If you go ahead and start trying to approach these licks without the right preparation you&#8217;re going to have a very bad time. The good news is I&#8217;m going to break down everything you need to know, including how to translate these techniques to other solos and melodies to add more variation and speed to your shred arsenal!

Melodic Metal

Big Time Shred Licks

Lick 1

Lick 2

I want to show you a really cool lick that I&#8217;ve been playing around with for a few weeks which combines multiple techniques in a very cool way. This concept lends itself to many variations and that&#8217;s where your creativity comes in&#8230;
In this lesson, I&#8217;m going to walk you through the techniques behind this lick, but instead of playing it note-for-note, I want you to apply your own note choices to it, then share what you come up with over in the McRocklin Discord &#8211; I can&#8217;t wait to see where you take this idea!

The Unfinished Lick

In this very special lesson, we&#8217;re going to dive into the world of rockabilly, which is always such a fun style of guitar to play no matter what genre you&#8217;re into!
I&#8217;m going to show you a few of the licks and approaches that are close to my heart and have stuck with me from the jam sessions I had with my old guitar teacher &#8220;Wild Bill&#8221; so many years ago.

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Fingers of Fury Mix Breakdown

Thumb and Hand Positioning

Live Lesson: Practicing Licks

How I Play Guitar

How to Riff Hard

Chords and Melody

Modern Octaves

SUDO Solo 1 Breakdown

How To Play Fast

Big Time Shred Licks

The Unfinished Lick

Wild Bill’s Rockabilly Special

The Secrets of a Pro Level Guitarist

Square Dreamz Solo

You and Me Solo 1 Breakdown

Waiting For The Right Time – Solo 2

Intervallic Lick

6 Mega Shred Exercises

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