About

Welcome to GuitarLava.com. I’m Craig Kelley and I’m the founder of GuitarLava.

Are you a beginner guitarist or have you asked yourself any of these questions?

  1. How do I shred on the guitar?
  2. Where do I start with guitar solos?
  3. What scales do I need to learn to start guitar soloing?
  4. Do I need to know music theory for guitar?
  5. How do I play a guitar solo?
  6. How do I make my guitar scream like Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, [Enter your favorite guitarist here]?

If so then you’ve come to the right place! I’m going to teach you how you can play guitar solos like the pros.

When I started playing guitar there was hardly any teaching materials available. NO, I’m not that old!  BUT it was pre-Internet. Today you have a massive overload of information.

With too much information it’s hard to know where to start. You will waste a ton of time trying to figure out the right way to guitar solo.

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I have spent hundreds of hours teaching students what works and what doesn’t work. Don’t guess about the best approach to learning how to guitar solo when my method is proven.

Even as a beginner you most likely have some skills to play some guitar soloing techniques. You just need the training. But who wants to sift through thousands of books, magazines, interviews, online articles, videos and blog posts to learn the best method for guitar soloing?

Subscribe to Guitar Lava and you’ll get my years of schooling, training, recording, gigging, and teaching experience rolled into the most proven methods, techniques and philosophies so that you can go from zero to shredder as fast as possible on your guitar!

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My email subscribers get my best information. Guitar soloing tips that I never post on GuitarLava.com that can be put into practice immediately. If you are a take action kind of person then you’ll love my material.

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I’m going to show you what exactly what notes to play to sound awesome. The guitar techniques I teach build on each other and expand your lick library so that your solos will be creative, interesting and unique just to you.

Do you want to play fast? Do you want to avoid bad habits and possibly prevent injury?

I will show you the proper fingering and picking techniques that make your guitar solos scream and will keep you playing for years to come.

My approach is very simple… have FUN while you’re learning to solo. Yes, you will learn music theory. I like to refer to it as “guitar theory”.

Can’t read music? Don’t have any guitar theory background? No problem! You’re going to learn it without even realizing it. I integrate the theory so that you learn it as you are learning how to solo.

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