Colter McCorkindale walks us through an easier-than-it-sounds legato sequence of just six notes, that somehow doesn't cause the hand to cramp up with repetition.

I've wanted to learn Allan Holdsworth's acoustic guitar intro to UK’s Nevermore for decades and never got around to figuring it out... until now!

After 22 years, I am finished with learning and playing King Crimson's impossible song, "Fracture." In this video, I talk about destinations versus journeys and wrap it up with my final performance of Fracture. Thank you to Robert Fripp for his incredible music, technique, and inspiration.

Here’s an instructional video on how I play Pat Metheny’s “San Lorenzo,” which requires a 12-string electric guitar with a custom set of strings and a very strange tuning.

This is one of the craziest and most fun Vai licks to play from his album, Fire Garden. I hope you enjoy and pick it up yourself.

Jan Zehrfeld is the bandleader of the German jazz-metal band, Panzerballett. They have written ear-defying songs based entirely on quintuplets (5 notes per beat) and septuplets (7 notes per beat). Learn how Jan has put these techniques to use and see/hear examples. It's incredible!

Alex Anthony Faide is the only guy on the internet who's actually able to play King Crimson's Fracture at full speed. He studied for many years with Robert Fripp in the Guitar Craft/Guitar Circle courses and continues to this day in pursuit of right- and left-hand clarity. He is an inspiration to many of us.

In this episode of Failure to Fracture, I talk about how I was unable to succeed after interpreting and following the Guitar Craft rules a little too seriously. Once I let go, I was able to get through the death picking section of the moto perpetuo.

I also do a practice run at 128bpm at the end of the video.

There aren't enough Henry Cow/Fred Frith/Tim Hodgkinson transcriptions out there, so I thought I'd take a whack at the intro to one of my favorite Henry Cow pieces, "The Decay of Cities." Transcription is available at Soundslice: https://www.soundslice.com/scores/61172/

In this episode, we talk about how inefficient picking can lead to failure. When you're picking 500+ notes per second for multiple minutes, every bit of energy and distance savings count!

In my experience, playing King Crimson's epic (and notoriously difficult) song "Fracture" with a round pick did not lead to the best results. Here's my explanation why in addition to an inventory of sharp/triangular picks, including the Guitar Craft triangular delrin and India rubber picks.

Enjoy episode 1 of my series on King Crimson's "Fracture." It's about stress and body tension, which is the biggest inhibitor of success in my attempts to play this piece of music.

I've spent the past 15 years or so developing a unique type of expertise regarding the song "Fracture" by King Crimson: the expertise of failure.

The purpose of this video series is to demonstrate all the things I've learned about that have stood in the way of my success all these years. I'll talk about my time with Robert Fripp in Mexico in February 2015, what I learned from the Guitar Circle course, and what I've been able to learn since then on my own and through lessons.

Ever wanted to learn the song "Experience" by Gentle Giant? I've had that fantasy for years! Now I've finally figured out a way to play it on the guitar. And so can you...

In this video, we pick apart "Hell's Bells" from Bruford's 1979 release, "One of a Kind." It's a fun, complex song with an intro that makes use of odd time signatures and key modulations.