Experience the Fluency
Beginner or been playing for sometime:
- Play music, not notes
- Learn fluent Indian music on standard tuned guitar
- Avoid generic exercises, frustration and quitting
Master the REAL skills
while learning what matters to you
Shyam is an ex-IITian playing guitar since age 11, with teaching expertise in multiple fields.
Access ALL courses ($29/mo)
Automatic access to Shyam’s private lessons within the next 5 minutes.
- The whole bunch: 100s of video lessons, Tabs, pdfs
- Fundamentals and best practices
- Indian raga & Film song fluency
- Rhythm & Chord connectedness
- Carnatic compositions
- Sing while Rhythm
- Recording and Mixing
- Fingerpicking and Chord melody
- Finding chords for ragas
- Ear training…
- Immediate access Start learning in the next 5 minutes: the login and password is automatically emailed to you
1-1 classes & Private Corrections
Better 1-1
- 1-1 calls with Shyam / Sreenath
- Private recorded video corrections and custom content
(Whatsapp) +91 828 1234 828 | Email: shyam@musicianself.com
Shyam’s PRIVATE community
Starts at USD39 (= INR)
Learn with a dedicated group
(Whatsapp Sreenath) +91 828 1234 828 | Email: shyam@musicianself.com
- Dedicated membership space to post and get corrections (Student platform with profiles, not whatsapp group)
- Ask anything, group calls directly with Shyam ($39 or = INR)
- enrollment opens on 25th for a limited time.
Async
- Recorded feedback sessions
- Corrections and technique suggestions that match your skill level and goals
- Musical improvements – connection, sustain, phrasing, finger, play like sung, rhythm
- Guidance on what to focus on next – like a GPS, connect to your personal music goals
Record
- I’ll record professional guitar rhythm tracks for youRhythm & Chords Track
Get beautiful, rhythm & chord tracks, tailored to your song.
These will match your chosen:- Key
- Tempo
- Feel (meditative, upbeat, groovy, devotional, etc.)
My name is Shyam
- ex-IITian living in Germany. 1998 BTech (JEE AIR 716)
- playing Indian style guitar since 11 years of age
- Teaching, building instruction systems, since 1.5 decades
- Free videos: Youtube (musicianself, shyammonk)
I used my FOCUS – CHUNK – SKILL method to prepare and pass JEE, from a small town in South Kerala. My students and I use DELIBERATE practice methods to get results while deepening the process. Benefit from my learning and teaching methods.
Avoid these problems:
Beginner
Practice fundamentals and best practices to avoid future bottlenecks.
Indian music interest
Learn optimized methods, avoid generic western theory and exercises.
Playing, actually
Know many notes, but can’t play when you want to? Learn what and how to practice.
Independence
Too dependent on tabs? Can’t play freely? Learn memory and playing techniques.
Rhythm and chords
Troubled by mismatch? Can’t sing and play? Learn to harness the downbeat.
Improvise, freedom
Learn practical theory that will set you free. Instead of mere rote memorization.
Optimized methods for clear outcomes
Learn what matters
Want to play Indian music? Generic western exercises will not get you there.
What to practice?
Repeating, hoping for improvement? Instead learn the exact steps to progress.
Pro Practice Strategies
Start and sustain your practice using focus, chunking and executive functions.
Match your skill
Custom lessons: Challenging, not overwhelming. Fluid deliberate play.
Systems approach
Learn long impact, under the hood skills in a short time for sure progress.
Sound like a musician
Not a note player. Develop the producer’s mind to make music you are meant to.
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