Cracking the Code

Our latest YouTube feature is a deep dive into the surprisingly terrifying shred technique of a younger Joe Pass. It’s a collaboration with peerless transcriber and guitar educator Levi Clay, who supplied the musical and historical erudition, while Cracking The Code handled the plectrum plumbing. ...

Here’s the bad news: The individual lesson chapters in our awesome Synchronicity seminar don’t work very well as YouTube videos. They’re concise, nutritional, and exactly what you want in a lesson sequence. They are not what you w...

Do you have trouble synchronizing your hands? Is your picking slower than your fretting? Is your fretting slower than your picking? At Cracking The Code we hear these complaints daily. And our response is the same each time: How do you know? Without a rigorous plan for testing and streamlining both hands, it’s impossible to know why your playing sounds uncoordinated, or how ...

Our latest lesson tackles an incorrect assumption at the core of one of the most commonly repeated pieces of musical practice advice of all time: Go slow and get all the notes right. How could this possibly be bad advice?

Historically, when we speak about practice perfection, we’re usually thinking about the correctness of the resultin...