Ladies, Gentlemen, and Musicians! Please give a warm welcome to the MAN himself, the one whom we called YODA in Music School! Say hello to @Sid Woolfolk yall! Boy do we have some surprises for yall! Buckle up ladies, it's time to learn you a thing or two! lol

I happen to love The Guitar Grimoire for the way he charted everything, although some of it is very redundant and the way he explains theory can be completely overhauled. lol Shawn Lane, Sid Wolf, Buckethead, and myself all love Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns by Nicolas Slonimsky Also Sid turned me on to a very very complete book called the Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales by Masaya Yamaguchi

Mission Statement by Sid Wolf Why we believe this guitar/music method is more engaging and more effective than many traditional methods: 1. Our method is based in large part on concepts I learned from the late great Shawn Lane during the period I studied with him in 1996- 97 while I was teaching at the Atlanta Institute of Music (AIM), which is now the Atlanta Institute of Music and Media (AIMM). Shawn had superior musical abilities and an encyclopedic knowledge of many subjects due to his sheer brain power, which was well beyond that of most people. As an example, he could write with both hands at once, letters with one and numbers with the other. It would all be legible even though he was looking at you and talking to you while doing it! As another example: when he was a young boy, age 12 or so, he would walk into the Memphis Library pushing a wheelbarrow. The Library staff members all knew him and knew he was a young budding genius, and they allowed him to check out as many books at a time as he wanted- no limit. So young Shawn might check out 25 books about, say, butterflies, and because of his natural speed reading ability and his laser sharp photographic memory, he would read them all in a week and become a virtual authority on butterflies. In this way, he became extremely knowledgeable about a great many subjects, including music. Shawn's self-taught approach to learning music was quite different than most familiar methods, borrowing approaches from some of the great classical pianists, violinists, and cellists (Shawn played the cello for several years starting at age 5), but the results he achieved are indisputable, as listening to him play will indicate. Fortunately there are videos of Shawn on YouTube that illustrate this point. I already had a somewhat positive reputation in the Atlanta area as a capable player and teacher but when I began studying with Shawn Lane I went through a period of feeling that everything I had learned about playing the guitar was wrong. It wasn't, but that is how radical many of his ideas seemed at the time.

Here are some great Drills for learning the notes on the guitar neck with a different way of thinking! Thats what we are about, we want you to be creative on your Instrument and find your unique style and sound and bring that out so that when you play, everyone knows it is you and not just some guy trying to copy someone else. Also please check out the new coursework we have available, my intervals video and course, and what we have going so far on here. If you want some true eye opening tools you need to sign up for our paid tier and check out Sid Wolfs Master Classes and courses about the Shawn Lane Curriculum. We were both students of The Late Great Shawn Lane and he worked with both of us in writing a curriculum for our Music Schools! It's amazing material for anyone on any level. I made the Intervals Video because it will help you understand what Sid is doing. I am going to be adding a lot more to that course and the other courses. If any of yall have any questions or requests, this community is yours! Yall tell me what you want to see. Im going to also be releasing material of Shawns no one has ever heard from time to time for the Members of this community and when I do that I am going to make sure Shawns daughter Ashley is taken care of as many people have screwed Shawn and her over during the course of many years. This is why it is also very important to protect your intellectual property and Im going to teach you how to do that as well. When are most of you online compared to American Central Time (Chicago) We want to go live as well. Enjoy your community folks. We are here for you!

Hey Yall, I spent most of the day making a video about Intervals and found an old article I wrote back in 98 or 99. Knowing how to build with Intervals is a crucial stepping stone to be able to grasp the Shawn based curriculum so I made it free and put it on YouTube. I am going to add a lot more to this course and maybe see if I can even add tests? Anyway, thank yall for supporting this group. I want to talk about any more advanced guitar concepts or if anyone has any questions about Shawn Lane even, you come to the right place!