Discover your Guitar Archetype
Based on your preferred genres and desired skills, plus your biggest challenge and how you learn best. Your archetype isn't a label. It's a starting point.
About Guitarmalade
The secret sauce for serious guitarists.
Music education can be dry, rigid and devoid of music you love, and guitar instruction is too often random licks with no direction. We do neither. Guitarmalade offers holistic music education built on a real system.
Intermediate guitar players, break through the plateau! Fill in your music theory gaps, and refine your technique and rhythm. Guitarmalade transforms your playing just like marmalade elevates plain white toast.
Who it's for
For players who've hit the wall.
Guitarmalade is for passionate guitarists who have stalled out. You've put in the hours. You can play. But you've hit the plateau where you don't know what you don't know, and no amount of random practice moves the needle.
That's not a talent problem. It's a path problem.
The fit
Right method. Right player.
Change usually happens when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change. If you're here, you might be there.
The best practice routine is like an effective diet: the one you will actually DO!
Guitarmalade's edge is matching the method to the player.
The philosophy
Teach the individual, not the template.
When you cater to a player's own taste and the music they actually love, you can connect the fundamentals back to the players and songs that made them pick up the guitar in the first place. That's when it clicks. That's when practice stops feeling like homework and starts feeling like progress.
The rule underneath it all is simple: play what you love, and you play more. If you play more, you get better.
Measure it
What can be measured, and what can't.
Much of music is indefinable. Not everything that makes a player great can be put on a chart, and we won't pretend otherwise.
But guitar playing is a skill stack, and most of those skills can be measured. When we can measure it, we can see exactly what stands between you and your goals, instead of guessing. Manage what you measure.
Your path
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Step by step.
Define your Ideal Player
The guitarist you hear in your head.
Measure the gap
Ten core skills show exactly where you are and what to work on next.
Build your Bag O' Tricks
Don't learn everything. Deliberately collect the vocabulary of the guitarist you're trying to become, one trick at a time.
The system
Same foundation. Your path.
Every player needs the same foundation. Nobody needs the same path.
The C.O.R.E. Curriculum™
The foundation: the measurable skills every strong player stands on, in the right order.
The S.A.U.C.E. Method™
How you make it yours: how the licks and ideas of the players you love become your own voice.
How they fit together for you is what your lessons are for.
A pathway you can't buy
One path for you.
This isn't a course off a shelf. You can't buy your pathway. You earn it, and we build it with you, around your level, your goals, and the music you love.
Not one program for everyone. One path for you.
20 years of real teaching
Meet Chris.
Guitarmalade was created by Christopher Schreiner: award winning guitarist, Berklee graduate, and creator of the S.A.U.C.E. Method™, a system developed in over 20,000 private lessons.
Now that recipe is yours. Lessons are 1 on 1, in your home across Fairfield and Westchester County or online from anywhere.
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Sauce it up!
Discover your Guitar Archetype with the free quiz, or book a quick 10 minute call and we'll match you with your instructor.