Learn with Mike
The method books, online
Each book walks you through its material in order: a short lesson, then songs that put it to work. The books share their chords, strumming patterns and ideas, so you can follow a topic from one book into the next.
Start learning Inversion Guitar Chord Method
Learn to build guitar chords instead of memorizing them: three shapes, five alterations, and 42 songs to play along the way.
73 steps · 42 songs
Start learning Right Hand Patterns for Guitar
Every right-hand technique in one method: 275 patterns for strumming, finger picking, flat picking and hybrid picking, each one playable.
37 steps · 275 right-hand patterns
Start learning Grip Chord Method for Guitar
Moveable chords for jazz and popular music: 76 grips with the root on the 6th or 5th string, each showing its theory and fingering, in any key.
15 steps · 76 grip chords
Start learning Positional Reading Method for Guitar
Read standard notation anywhere on the neck: six scale patterns and twelve etudes, one in every key, played in every position.
21 steps · 12 etudes
Online later Modern Methods for Improvisation
Improvising in pop, blues, rock, grassroots and jazz.
Available in print →
Online later Electric Bass Reading Method
Reading in first position, then a positional method for bass.
Available in print →