So it’s Saturday night, just 2 days before I’m supposed to film my first-ever online guitar course…
Three long years of work, thousands of hours, and everything I’d learned about what actually matters on the guitar, distilled into a single step-by-step system.
On Monday morning a little past the butt-crack of dawn I’m supposed to walk on into this venue and teach the guitar course that’d eventually reach 289,057 guitarists.
But right now, my friend "Jeezy" (don’t ask) is on acid, running around our flat destroying furniture…
…and I’m about to get punched in the face.
Let me back up.
After that conversation with Colvin at the music store, when he told me about the upside-down pyramid, I became obsessed with one question:
"If I can't learn everything... what SHOULD I learn?"
I was 15 years old and I needed an answer...
So I did what any guitar-obsessed teenager would do. I started teaching.
After I saw rapid progress in my 1-on-1 students I created my first product, Guitar Burning Speed. An e-book with a series of exercises that, if you followed the system, would double your guitar speed in two weeks…
And it worked. People got results, FAST.
But I kept refining the question: What do guitarists actually need to know to break through?
Not what's nice to know, and not what sounds impressive at a party…
What do they NEED?
Fast forward to my early twenties. I'd spent three years developing something I called Guitar Mastery 101. It was the answer to Colvin's riddle. The distillation of everything I'd discovered about what actually moves the needle for guitar players.
Strip away the dead weight. Focus on outcomes. Teach what matters.
I had the filming date locked in. Monday morning. Professional crew. Everything was ready.
…Then came Saturday night.
Jeezy shows up to a party at our place, drops acid, starts losing it.
He's running around, knocking over furniture, completely out of his mind.
So I grab him by the shoulders to calm him down, but he stumbles backward, trips, and whacks his head on the corner of the couch.
He's so far gone, all he remembers is the impact and coming to on the ground.
n his mind? I must have punched him...
He jumps up, dusts himself off, and socks me right in the eye.
My friends grab him and drag him into another room.
That's when Jamie walks outside…
And Jamie’s this brick wall of a guy. Shaved head, covered in tattoos, looks like he could bench press a car. One of the OG punk rockers.
He grabs a shovel and starts digging in the backyard…
"Jamie, dude, what the hell are you doing!?"
No one can get an answer…
Just focused, terrifyingly-aggressive digging.
Now there’s a herd of people gathered like cattle in the backyard watching Jamie (from a distance) do whatever the heck he’s doing… and finally I get an answer:
"Charlie, nobody hits you my brother. I'm digging Jeezy's grave."
Now this would be funny…
Except Jamie was dead serious. He wanted Jeezy gone.
(Jamie doesn't drink anymore btw)
Sunday morning, I wake up with a black eye looking like I went three rounds with Mike Tyson.
And Monday morning? Filming day...I can't reschedule. The crew’s booked, the venue’s paid for, and I had no rations left for survival…
This was it, this is my only shot.
So my girlfriend tries to cover the black eye with makeup, and I walk onto that set looking like I just survived a bar fight.
And I filmed the entire Guitar Mastery 101 course with a black eye.
You can still see it in some of the shots if you look closely enough.
But here's why I'm telling you this story…
In that moment, standing in front of the camera with a swollen eye, I knew something with absolute certainty:
The system worked.
The principle Colvin taught me years earlier, the answer I'd spent years refining, the method I'd tested on hundreds of students...
It was sound.
Nothing was going to stop it from getting out there. Not a black eye. No lunatic friend on LSD. Not even Jamie digging graves in the backyard.
Because I'd finally answered the question:
What do guitarists actually need to learn?
That course became Guitar Mastery 101.
It eventually reached over 280,000.
But there's something I've learned since then that makes it even simpler.
After teaching millions of students, after watching what works and what doesn't, after seeing where people get stuck and where they breakthrough...
I've distilled fretboard mastery down to 18 specific hacks.
And sure, you can go out there and try learn everything there is to know… but after teaching for over 2 decades now, having seen it all… I can say, hand on my heart, that’s an approach that’ll only get you nowhere fast.
Either way,
Simplify.
And by doing so, you’ll be 10 steps closer to mastery.
Charlie Wallace
Guitar Mastery Method
If you're sure you don't want to hear anymore about 18 Fretboard Hacks, that's okay.
Use the link below to stop further emails about this topic for now.
However, there's no need to stress about missing the valuable (and complimentary) content and resources about how to play lead guitar we're going to keep sending you.
Using the link below simply tells our team to stop emailing you about our current topic for now, yet keep you on our list for other guitar-related topics you want.
No more emails about the 18 most powerful fretboard lessons (however, keep me on your list.)
---------------------------
Hey there, rockstar.
If you have any questions or concerns, reply and let us know.
We appreciate the amount of time you put into shredding those strings.
However...
If you'd rather not hear from us again, use the link below.
But I have to warn you.
It's permanent, and I won't be able to send you any more lessons or updates.
Again...
Let us know how we can help by replying to this email.
Either way, rock on.
Guitar Mastery Method
1321 Upland Drive
PMB 1190
Houston, Texas 77043
United States