Rock Guitar with Paul Gilbert

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4.9/5 from 75 reviews

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1. Submit Your Video - Record and upload directly through our platform. No technical skills required.
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Record and upload directly through our platform. No technical skills required.

2. Get Expert Feedback - Receive personal video responses from Paul Gilbert with tips to improve!
2. Get Expert Feedback

Receive personal video responses from Paul Gilbert with tips to improve!

3. Learn from Community - Browse exchanges from other students to learn from their questions.
3. Learn from Community

Browse exchanges from other students to learn from their questions.

Course Structure Rock Guitar with Paul Gilbert

Each lesson builds on the last, taking you from zero to hero!

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Master rock guitar with the legendary Paul Gilbert. Over 135 lessons from basic fundamentals through advanced arpeggios and techniques to build speed, precision, and great tone. Plus over 15,000 Video Exchanges to learn from!

5 sections within this school

Fundamentals

Develop rock skills with power chords, bends, shuffles, and basic arpeggio techniques. Practice strumming, muting, and expressive tools like bends and simple arpeggios. Understand essential rock rhythm and lead elements through clear, guided exercises.

60 lessons

Intermediate

Explore pentatonic scales, phrasing, and major tones to bring your lead playing to life. Practice soloing with triplets, blues scales, a variety of licks, and expressive lead guitar techniques. Develop smoother lead lines using pentatonic shapes, phrasing, and musical variation.

24 lessons

Advanced

Explore advanced scales, arpeggios, and phrasing to expand your lead guitar skills. Develop accuracy and control with string skipping, scale work, and melodic phrasing. Strengthen lead technique through focused practice with scales, arpeggios, and timing.

32 lessons

30 Day Challenge

1 lessons

Power Tools

Develop expressive rock skills through tone control, phrasing, vibrato, and creative rhythm.. Discover how dynamics, finger control, and articulation bring personality to your playing.. Strengthen your rock technique with muting, scale work, wrist movement, and phrasing detail.

22 lessons

About Rock Guitar with Paul Gilbert

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Paul Gilbert has taken his entire knowledge of playing guitar and poured it into a comprehensive video library that includes hundreds of incredible rock guitar lessons. Subscribers get unlimited access to all online guitar lessons, supplemented by guitar tabs and other study materials (including the "Paul Gilbert Book of Guitar"). Plus there's special guest appearances and a community of guitar enthusiasts from all over the world. What ultimately sets these guitar lessons apart from other online offerings however, is the ability to submit a video using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange® learning platform. Paul reviews each submission and records a video response where he offers tips and techniques to practice. All students can access Paul's Video Exchange library, which with over 2000 unique responses might contain the key to unlock your own playing.

About Paul Gilbert

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Rock Guitarist Paul Gilbert began playing by ear at 9 years old, and spent his teenage years playing in bars around Pittsburgh, PA. At 17, Paul moved to Hollywood to attend the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT.) At 18, he was hired as GIT's youngest instructor. At the same time, Paul released his first album with his band RACER X, and became one of the top selling acts in the L.A. club scene. In 1988, Paul joined forces with bassist Billy Sheehan, to form MR. BIG. The band went on to have #1 chart success with their single "To Be With You," and to sell out multiple nights at Japan's Budokan arena. Paul's "Intense Rock" series of instructional videos became legendary for their clarity, humor, and jaw-dropping technique. Paul has also recorded over 20 albums as a solo artist, performed on Joe Satriani's G3 tour, is a long-time endorser of Ibanez guitars, and hosts The Great Guitar Escape camp.

What students are saying!

4.9
75 reviews
May 23, 2023
Hands Down, the Best Best Guitar Course on The Internet

I have been a member of Paul's Artistworks class since it began. When I first joined, I expected the usual instructional videos and expected that I could would probably tap out as ...

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Greg G.
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October 28, 2023
This course would be worth 100 stars if there was a pdf for every video

I really hate to rate this course as 3 stars as it throws off the average score which should be perfect. As per title, this is an outstanding course that is ruined by the fact that...

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Bradley C.
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May 26, 2023
The one thing I absolutely HATE about this course...

...is that it isn't LONGER! I loved every lesson and Paul's manner of teaching...almost like he's your big brother...so much so that I would love to see a section added on after "a...

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Cody M.
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May 30, 2023
Best Teacher I've ever had

I'm in my mid 30s and played guitar for roughly 20 years. Life got a bit busy with work and kids and I subscribed to Paul's lessons as a way of getting back into guitar and it's th...

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Jonny M.
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May 20, 2023
Paul Gilbert is my hero and a great human being

Unbelievable course. Too good to be true . Community is mostly on the beginner side (that surprised me). extremely positive experience so far.

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Nicolo V.
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April 18, 2024
I have wanted to sign

I have wanted to sign up for Paul's course since it was first rolled out in like 2017 or something? Maybe that is when I was first aware of it, anyway I kept talking myself out of ...

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Roger P.
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May 28, 2023
Exceeded my expectations by far.

Anyone who has played rock guitar for a while knows who Paul Gilbert is. We have seen all the instructional videos and listened to all the records from Racer X to his solo work. We...

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Anders H.
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May 26, 2023
Paul is genuine

As a decades long forever student of music and guitar, I learned so much from Paul. His approach is more than simply do this. You get a story that ties it together. You get exercis...

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Bradley W.
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May 23, 2023
Paul is a "Musician's Musician" and a TEACHER to the TEACHERS

You have probably heard the saying, "If it SOUNDS too good to be true, it probably IS." Well, I can tell you that guitar lessons with Mr. Gilbert sound like one of those: "too good...

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Kevin C.
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April 19, 2024
See’sThe Matrix.

Ive been taking Paul’s Courses for about 6 month. I started with 3 months then joined for 12 when thats up I will join for 12 more in perpetuity. Paul is my teacher and as long as ...

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Christopher A.
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