My name is Matt a.k.a. the Lazy Guitar God. I've been playing guitar for over 30 years and teaching guitar for more than 15 years.

I started out taking some lessons at the local music shop with someone who wasn't exactly invested in teaching me anything more than I asked for. Since I didn't know what I didn't know I would bring in my favorite songs and learn little licks and various chord progressions.

I started a band with my friends and we played all the way through highschool, mostly playing original songs that we wrote. We even won a statewide Highschool Battle of the Bands competition.

However, when I was in college I met a new friend who invited me over to jam with him and his friend. When I arrived I soon realized that I couldn't really keep up. These guys were making up riffs and chord progressions and seemingly effortlessly improvising guitar lines over the top. They were playing all over the neck in various different keys.

Even though I thought I could play, I didn't have the understanding to improvise over pieces that I didn't know in any key.

I asked my friend, "How do you know what scales and notes to play?" He wasn't able to really explain it to me.

Immediately I decided I would go back to guitar lessons and learn the secrets to freely improvising all over the neck. Since I was older and more focused I told my new teacher what I wanted to learn. He was like, "That's simple. You need to learn CAGED."

I spent several more years learning the CAGED system so that I could improvise like my friend. It completely changed my approach to guitar.

But guess what the #1 thing I've learned throughout this entire journey is...?  👉  You don't need to master CAGED to start soloing immediately or to make your own awesome music.

CAGED is a complex system and understanding it is a worthy long term goal as aguitar player. However, the is a MUCH SIMPLER subset of the CAGED system which is really the HEART of CAGED but which is so simple that even a person who has NEVER PICKED UP ANY INSTRUMENT can learn in a few minutes and fully understand in one hour.

The reason I created this system originally was so that I could JAM with more beginner guitarists. It's hard to play along to songs when you don't know the chord progressions. And even just keeping up with the progression isn't that fun. The Lazy Guitar God system allows a beginner (or total novice) guitar player to improvise cool sounding leads and licks without knowing the song or the progressions (they just need to know the Key). It's so simple you can learn it and start to use it immediately.

There are a lot of secrets, tricks and hacks that you'll learn in this course. I'll tell you a big one right here. The most important thing a musician can do is MAKE MUSIC that people like and respond to. But here's the thing: Amazing music does NOT need to be technically difficult. In fact, MOST POPULAR MUSIC is very simple. But it works becuase it creates an EMOTIONAL RESPONSE. If you want to create amazing and beautiful music that touches people its actually WAY EASIER that you think! People get VERY SIDETRACKED trying to become excellent technical musicians when that ACTUALLY DOESN'T MATTER for what most people are trying to do which is to learn and play the songs they like or write and play their own music.

This course is your first step towards making your own AMAZING MUSIC and enjoying playing the guitar and any musical ideas that come into your head.