With a comprehensive schedule covering techniques like alternate picking, legato, tapping, sweep picking, and hybrid picking, you'll master the key tools used by great guitarists, enhancing your speed and accuracy in complex solos.
The course is organized with step-by-step exercises that help you improve at your own pace, making sure each technique is learned well and used musically, without losing clarity when playing fast.
Besides learning each technique, you’ll also see how to use them in songs, solos, and live playing, helping you become a more confident and versatile guitarist in different music styles.
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The Method
Extreme Guitar Workout
The Extreme Guitar Workout method uses step-by-step exercises that blend technique with musicality. By focusing on speed, accuracy, and smooth playing, you’ll build advanced skills like legato, tapping, and sweep picking.
Each technique is broken down clearly, so you can apply what you learn right away to solos and improvisation, helping you get solid results in less time.
What Will You Learn?
Extreme Guitar Workout is an intensive course focused on developing your guitar skills with advanced techniques like alternate picking, legato, tapping, sweep picking, and hybrid picking. With hands-on lessons and progressive exercises, you’ll master scales, modes, and apply them directly to solos and improvisations, taking your performance to the next level.
Module 1
Fundamentals and Basic Techniques
- Posture and Fingering
- Chromatic Exercises
- Chromatic Exercises with String Skipping
- Exercises on Adjacent Strings
- Classical Music on Guitar – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring – J.S. Bach
Module 2
Mastering the Pentatonic Scale
- Pentatonic Scale Structure
- Pentatonic Scale Visualization Exercises
- Basic Licks
- Melodic Patterns for the Pentatonic Scale
Module 3
Legato Techniques and Modes
- Legato
- Pentatonic Scale with Legato
- Licks Applying the Pentatonic Scale
- Modes
- Modes – Melodic Patterns
- Modes – Licks
Module 4
Two Hands Tapping
- Two-Hand Tapping
- Tapping: Pentatonic and Modes
- Tapping: Application
Module 5
Sweep Picking
- Sweep Picking
- Sweep Picking: Major and Minor Triads
- Sweep Picking Etude
- Sweep Picking: Application in Scales
Module 6
Hybrid Picking
- Hybrid Picking basic exercises
- Hybrid picking over scales and arpeggios
- Hybrid Picking: Application
- Hybrid Picking Licks
From Beginner to Advanced: Build Speed, Precision, and Musicality with a Proven Method!
Meet the teacher
ROD RODRIGUES
Rod Rodrigues is a Brazilian/Canadian guitarist, music teacher, and songwriter with a strong and well-established career in the music industry. He has played in several bands, including Enemies of Reality and Falling Into a Dream (a Dream Theater tribute band).
Rod studied with world-renowned guitarists Kiko Loureiro (Megadeth) and Greg Howe (Justin Timberlake, Michael Jackson), and holds music degrees from IG&T and Claretiano University. Since 1997, he has been teaching music in Brazil, Canada, and Europe.
As a solo artist, Rod released his debut EP, The First Step: Introduction, in 2010, which was featured in magazines like Guitar Player, Cover Guitarra, and Guitarload. In 2019, he released the single T.A.G., followed by the concept album Tales of a Changing Life Part 1 in 2022, featuring Marco Sfogli (James LaBrie, PFM) on the track Woodbine Sunset.
In 2024, he released Tales of a Changing Life Part 2, with guest appearances by Angel Vivaldi, Roy Ziv, and John Macaluso (Yngwie Malmsteen, Symphony X, TNT, among others).
Thanks to the success of both albums, Rod was featured in Prog Magazine and Rock Hard Italy, and was voted one of the Top 20 Guitarists of 2022 and 2024 by readers of Roadie Crew magazine.
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