Most Guitar instruction glosses over the details that actually matter: pick grip, picking-hand placement, how to move efficiently, and how to control string noise. So you end up guessing, building bad habits, and wondering why your picking falls apart when you try to speed up.
Finally understand the RIGHT way to hold your pick, place your picking hand, and eliminate string noise—no more guessing, no more bad habits, no more frustration. This free lesson shows you the picking foundations that everything else builds on.
Most Guitar instruction is random. The Metal Guitar Academy T.N.T.™ (Technique, Neck Knowledge, Theory) system is coherent.
T.N.T.™ is the framework I use to diagnose what’s holding you back—and the roadmap I use to fix it.
Excess string noise when you play
Pick moves around in your fingers
Fingertip gets in the way of your pick tip
Palm muting doesn't sound right
Reaching for strings and missing
Hand bounces up and down
Hand or wrist locks up
Picking a different string than you meant to
Can't move picking hand fast enough
Pick starts being at an awkward angle for clean playing
This isn't the lesson video - it's me doing some serious shredding so you can hear what clean, controlled picking technique can do for your playing. The full 36-minute Fix Your Picking Problems lesson is what you’ll get when you sign up.
Instant access in your MGA dashboard: video lesson + 20 picking sequences PDF.
"I just finished 'Fix Your Picking Problems' and it was AWESOME!"
"Your free solve your picking problems video is genius! I’m finding improvement in my picking hand after a few days. Yes, I said days!"
Most picking lessons are vague. They tell you to “relax,” “alternate pick,” or “use a metronome”… but they never show you the mechanical details that make clean picking possible. That’s why so many Guitarists plateau: they’re working hard, but they're trying to build a fortress on top of a weak foundation.
I know there’s a lot of Guitar nonsense on social media—people promising “one shape to unlock the fretboard,” “double your speed with one hidden trick,” and even people faking their playing by speeding up the video. That stuff is tired, annoying, and dishonest.
This lesson is the opposite: real fundamentals, explained clearly. No mediocre “close enough” advice—this is the stuff that actually changes your playing.
Most Guitarists never get the picking details explained clearly—so they keep guessing and reinforcing bad habits. This lesson gives you the mechanics, the hand placement, and the fixes that actually matter.