Paul Davids – Electric Elevation

My course for intermediate guitarists who are ready to become more advanced – designed to help you elevate your electric guitar playing so you can confidently play by feel, improvise more intuitively, and play more expressively than ever before.

Learn Through Playing

As you play your way through this course, you’ll learn how to turn even the most fundamental scales and chord progressions into beautiful music.

In each lesson, I’ll guide you through the process of creating beautiful music, from the “zoomed out” level where we consider the overall flow and feel of each original song in the course, down to the “zoomed in” space where the smallest technical details bring life to the music.

I’ll help you develop a thoughtful listening approach that will guide you toward a more fluent and natural playing style. And, we’ll hone in on key techniques you can use to make them rich and meaningful. You’ll also have a chance to experiment with applying the same techniques to your own improvisation over prepared backing tracks, so you can build skill and confidence in making your own musical choices.

You’ll come away with some really cool new songs you can enjoy playing, but even more importantly, you’ll develop a more trained ear – and the intuition for combining just the right musical elements to create your own expressive voice on the guitar.

Cultivating Your Elevated Skillset

While working through this self-paced course, you will:

• Learn how to effortlessly bring together technical and musical elements like scales, arpeggios, triads, vibrato, double stops, fingerpicking, and bends to set a mood and express yourself more freely through your guitar
• Stop overthinking about theory and discover the creative freedom within even the most commonly used chord progressions – and how good you can sound using just the pentatonic scale
• Discover how to create unlimited possibilities in your music using phrasing, articulation, tone, intonation, voicing, timing, and so much more
• Train your ear through learning to listen to the relationship between the scales and the chords you are playing
• Strengthen the intuition needed to become a versatile and mature guitarist, so you can craft your own solos, musical lines, and identity

The lessons inside the course are centered around chord progressions and one single key per module, which we’ll explore in-depth together. For each progression, you’ll learn solos, rhythmic lines, rhythm and lead together, and techniques to add “spice” to your playing. And, you’ll work toward developing an intuitive sense of how to incorporate musical elements in order to sound better than ever before.

What You’ll Learn In Electric Elevation

MODULE 1: E Major

In this module, you’ll learn…

• Three ways to spice up four basic chords, and understand how keys, scales, and chords work together
• How using your thumb to fret notes can open up chord options and add embellishments
• The differences between rhythm guitar and lead guitar, and how to improvise within each
• How to craft awesome licks by thinking “horizontally” and understanding where your playing is going
• How to use “Call and Response” to add depth, cohesion and beauty to solos, and make your playing stand out

MODULE 2: E Minor

In this module, you’ll explore…

• Tips and tricks for fingerpicking on the electric guitar – a free way to drastically change the sound of your guitar!
• How to spice up basic chords using different voicings, spread triads, and fingerpicking
• The difference between target notes and transition notes
• Understanding arpeggio shapes and positions all over the neck, and how to incorporate them into your playing
• The power of repetition in soloing

MODULE 3: A Minor

In this module, you’ll discover…

• How to make your chords sound more melodic, and a few little techniques that can make your rhythm playing sound extraordinary
• Combine rhythm and lead guitar through a 12-bar blues progression – with a small twist
• How to harmonize a melody using the 6th or 3rd intervals, and three ways to play a melody using different voicings
• Tips for mastering the slap and flick technique on the electric guitar, and how to sprinkle it into your playing
• How to decorate chord progressions by using seventh chords, diminished chords, and the harmonic minor scale

MODULE 4: Blues Key (E Major)

In this module, you’ll dive into…

• Three different ways to approach blues soloing
• How to mix major and minor when improvising over the blues
• Learning the blues fingerstyle essentials
• The Real Magic of the B.B. King Box and the power one note can have on your playing
• How to effortlessly switch up playing rhythm and lead

MODULE 5: G Major

In this module, you’ll learn…

• Three major pentatonic scale positions that, when linked to chord shapes and played together, unlock the entire neck, as well as two diagonal scales that can be used to connect them
• How to be free to improvise rhythm guitar on the entire neck using embellishments and voice leading
• Learning triads, spread triads, and inversions all over the neck – all while leveling up your technical skills
• How pentatonic scales can be used to embellish chords, blurring the line between rhythm and lead
• The power of silence and rests, and how to use them in your playing