Stuck at the plateau? Become the improviser you've been practicing to be.
Before I tell you anything about working with me, I want you to experience how I teach. Step one is free - a 25-minute masterclass on exactly why intermediate guitarists get stuck, and the practice framework that gets them unstuck.
Step one is free and costs you nothing but 25 minutes. Step two only makes sense once you've seen how I teach.
A 25-minute class on exactly why intermediate guitarists plateau, the one change that fixes it fastest, and the 20-minute practice session you can start tomorrow.
Watch it free →Personal 1-on-1 guidance for your playing, your goals, your sound. Limited spots, and every applicant gets a real conversation before anything else.
See how it works →Real reviews from people who took lessons with Varad.
Varad is a phenomenal music educator and a killer performer. My lessons with him have absolutely skyrocketed my playing and my approach to the guitar. His approach to understanding chord changes and getting chord tones into your playing makes for a very enjoyable process. I highly recommend his courses and his one-on-one lessons. If you want to get better at playing, you are in the right place.
Varad is an amazing guitar instructor and it's been the first time that I've been able to learn and understand theory with respect to the guitar (rather than the piano).
advancing as a musician is actually possible, and his suggested ways to practice really do help (if you do it)
commit to lessons with him. it's worth it.
Concision at its finest. Varad's emphasis on fundamentals as a gateway to fretboard literacy has allowed me to understand how to use prior harmonic knowledge to negotiate new material and concepts. A guitar shaman!
Varad Sahasrabudhe is a Los Angeles-based jazz guitarist, composer, and educator whose playing bridges jazz, experimental improvisation, and his Indian heritage. He moved from Pune to the U.S. at 18 to study jazz - and spent years stuck at the exact plateau this page describes.
Until he changed what he practiced - not how much.
The mentorship is the roadmap he wishes someone had handed him: no theory dumps, no busywork - just the handful of shifts that turn scales and licks into real music.
You're not learning from a faceless curriculum. You're learning the language from someone who plays it, on stages, every week.
The 25-minute masterclass is free, plays right on the site, and is worth your time on its own. Watch it, try the framework this week, then decide about the mentorship.
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