Fluent Indian Guitar.
Rhythm Chord Mastery
- Stop hitting notes, play music
- avoid frustration and quitting – learn to play music you want to play, are familiar with.
Beginner or been playing for sometime, learn the underlying mechanics, the techniques and methods of fluent, connected playing.
Start learning what matters to you
1-1 classes & Private Corrections
1-1 classes and corrections:
shyam@musicianself.com OR Whatsapp: +91 828 1234 828
Learn from a specialist teacher
- Learn optimized processes from a specialist teacher – assess your playing using best practices and technique checklists
- Learn what matters to you – set a unique path from where you are to what you want to be
- Teachers are trained in learning theory and student guidance for targeted progress – scorecards, frameworks, goal oriented syllabus
- No information limit – you set the pace of learning, we will not limit you to preset learning speed or material
Send your video or doubts (Whatsapp) to +91 82812 34828 to assess and get to know the teacher. Do a call, try it to know the difference.
Indian guitar videos
Watch Indian music played fluently like sung on the guitar. Rhythm & Chord, Chord Melody.
Watch to learn the underlying mechanics, skills and processes to make you a better Indian guitar player.
Self paced courses with corrections
Lifetime access to foundation courses:
- Guitar basics that matter
- Indian guitar first steps
- Rhythm chord basics
- [Bonus] Carnatic geetham lambodara
Not sure about your technique, want to make sure you are following best practices and efficient fluency methods from the beginning?
1 year access to all course topics:
- Beginner Courses: Guitar basics, Indian guitar basics, Rhythm Chord basics
- Indian guitar skill growth & Fluency
- Rhythm chord, Fingerstyle and Chord Melody exercises
- Ear training exercises
- Carnatic basics and techniques lessons
- private recorded video submission and corrections
Help you be a better musician
My name is Shyam. Originally from Kerala. Live in Germany. Playing Indian style music, chords & rhythm since I was 11 years old.
Been teaching online and helping others build instruction systems, since 1.5 decades. You may know me from my Youtube (musicianself, shyammonk) free detailed videos.
IIT BTech. Prepared from a small town, on my own: JEE 716. Relevance? I know how to chunk, prepare and get results for myself and others. The background for the analysis and logic you get when learning with me.

Your Needs & Interests

Beginner Best Practices
You have the right to start learning music playing towards what you like, knowing for sure that you are in the right direction, absorbing the best practices without wrong methods.

Indian Guitar Fluency

Rhythm Chord Ability
Automated rhythm hand. Smooth intelligent transition moves. Underlying mechanics to reduce the time you take to go from 0 to be a consistent rhythm chord player.

Chord Melody & Fingerpicking
Fingerstyle rich playing using song notes and chords at the same time. Better sound when playing alone. 0 to Higher skill level exercises.

Sing while rhythm
Play with family and friends? You play the rhythm while you sing or accompany. How to sync and not go awkwardly out of rhythm? Rhythm hand automation, chord techniques.

Advanced skills
How to find notes and chords on your own? Ear training, improvisation… other musician concerns. Join the family, let us go the path together. Custom solutions – just ask us.
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Path & Practice
- Beginner what to do
- Indian guitar fluency – raga or film song – how
- carnatic on guitar – additional
- rhythm and chord steps
- the smart chord root & pattern method overview
- how to find chords steps
- finding notes on your own – logic
- learning using songs you like. Why
- raga improvisation on western instrument – phrasal
- fast and sure progress