Start Here: How to Get Results with This System
It's vital that you know how to (and how NOT to) approach your overall musical development as an artist, and SO many aspiring musicians get this wrong from the start, and proceed to completely undermine their efforts at every step. This preliminary course will help you understand clearly how the puzzle pieces actually fit together.
The Total Artist Development System (TADS) course is designed so that you can use it according to your own needs and purposes.
For example, you can:
However, it is NOT recommended that you follow the whole course from "start to finish" because this undermines your ability to develop quickly, and it maximizes the likelihood that you will demotivate yourself with "more of the same" slow results.
The order of the structure of the first 3 Pillars, "Technique - Improv - Songwriting" is intentional, but it is NOT meant to be a chronological or linear path.
Yes, these skill sets do build on each other, but in much shorter cycles: 1 to 2 weeks at a time, NOT over the course of months or years.
This is why it is vital to your success that you do not work on only one section at a time chronologically.
That is, do not wait until after you have completed the entire technique/vocab section to start working on improvising!
Instead, practice technique, then immediately move on to improv and songwriting using what techniques/vocab you've worked with after a short amount of time, then go back to technique/vocab and repeat the cycle.
In other words: Do not try to "finish" one Pillar before progressing onto the next Pillar. It is NOT a linear process the way a topic like mathematics is. It's a bunch of separate but inter-related skills and knowledge that need to be developed together more or less simultaneously.
Most guitarists (and other musicians as well for that matter) have the perception that "first" they want to get really good as a player, and "then" they'll worry about learning how to improvise, write and record, as if those separate skills will somehow come naturally. While this sounds logical on the surface, it simply doesn't work that way. All 3 skill sets need to be continuously developed in parallel.
The real secret to fast progress is in immediate application of your skills soon after you work with them.
As you browse through the structure of the TADS course, you may notice that a dedicated "Music Theory" section is strangely absent* from the structure. This is also intentional — it is not a separate section because it is a vital part of each of the other sections. There is no point in time when you are NOT using and/or learning theory. It forms the very basis of what to play at every moment of every stage of the first 3 Pillars.
The 4th Pillar, The Music Industry, is actually all-encompassing, with parts of it overlapping the other 3 Pillars as well, from the moment you conceptualize the first inkling of an idea for a song or album, to the way the song is structured and written, to the specific way you decide to play each part on the recording, to the artwork that captures the essence of the album's identity, to the way you mix and master it, and everything else that comes after that moment. The 4th Pillar is your guiding light throughout the entire process.
* The Scale Knowledge Onion could be considered a dedicated music theory section, but as indicated above, if used this way it should only be used together with other lessons and modules from elsewhere in the overall TADS course, to guide you to explore specific concepts and relationships in your practice, improvisation, and/or songwriting.
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