1-on-1 · 8 weeks · by application

The 8-Week Mentorship

Personal guidance for your playing, your goals, your sound. Stop collecting licks and start making music - with a roadmap built around where you actually are.

Is this you?

The mentorship is for you if…

  • You know your scales and own plenty of licks - but you can't turn them into music.
  • Your solos sound like exercises, and you can hear it.
  • You practice consistently, yet nothing seems to change.
  • You're done with random YouTube tips and want a structured path with feedback.

If that's you, you're not short on talent or effort. You're short on a roadmap - and fixing that is exactly what the 8 weeks are built around.

Varad Sahasrabudhe playing his red archtop guitar on stage
Why start here

Why the masterclass comes first.

Why don't I just show you a checkout page?

Because a mentorship is a relationship, not a product. Before either of us commits to 8 weeks, you should know exactly how I teach - and the best way to show you is to actually teach you something.

The 3 habits keeping you stuck

Why the practice that got you to intermediate is exactly what's holding you at intermediate.

Chord-tone targeting

The single biggest sound-changer for players at your level - demonstrated on the guitar so you hear the before and after.

My 20-minute practice framework

The exact session structure my mentorship students use daily. Start it tomorrow, with or without me.

At the end, I explain how the mentorship works and how to apply. No pressure either way - the masterclass is built to be worth your 25 minutes on its own.

1-on-1 with Varad · Modern Guitar Mentorship

Apply for the mentorship.

Personal guidance for your playing, your goals, your sound. This takes about 5-10 minutes.

Answer honestly - there are no "right" answers, and vague answers help neither of us. Most applicants tell me the form alone made them see their playing more clearly than they had in years. When you submit, you'll get a link to book a free call.

Basics
Logistics for scheduling live sessions.
Two different numbers, often revealing. 20 years guitar / 1 year jazz is a very different student from 4 / 4.
Where you are now
Be honest - "play through" means you could do it at a jam without a chart.
If you've never recorded yourself, just say that.
What you've tried
Teachers, courses, books, YouTube, transcribing…
Honest answers of "mostly noodling" are a good sign - self-awareness predicts coachability.
Where you want to go
Be specific. "Be better at jazz" isn't. "Walk into a jam and confidently call and play Stella" is.
Commitment
The playing
Don't polish this. I'm not judging performance, I'm diagnosing - I can build your week-one plan from 60 seconds of honest playing. A standard, or just soloing over a backing track.

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Your answers go straight to Varad. He personally reviews every application.