• Structured path to excellence

    We take you by the hand to lead you through what, how and why. No BS. Just expert guitar instruction to confidently advance your craft.

  • Comprehensive curriculum

    Technique at all stages, plus tone, best practice structures, spiral learning, music theory, ear training, timing mastery and more.

  • Loads of inspiration

    Learn at your own pace through 24 song studies plus 120 well-known songs. And for additional guidance, our expert coaches are ready to help!


Rock like a pro as you progress through this comprehensive course by legendary guitar educator/author Troy Stetina. Here, you'll learn the inns and outs that separate amateur from professional.

Heavy Rhythm Guitar Mastery offers a self-paced, structured learning environment within a supportive guitar community. The course is presented in two Parts, both of which you have access to with the Ignite Membership bundle. 

In Part II we continue to build on the foundation laid in Part I with video walkthrus of all material including:


  • Additional forms of chording (finger control)
  • Load more riffs and progressions to fully train your hands
  • Advanced rhythm notation along with execution for flawless timing
  • Continued ear training for advanced musicianship
  • Music theory of keys and chord motion and resolution, along with loads of quizzes to test your knowledge
  • 12 more musical song studies from Troy's books with video walkthrus.
  • 60 more popular songs from the 1970s up to today, arranged in progressive learning stages. That's a total of 120 songs!


And not only will learning these 120 handpicked songs provide a strong, practical base of technique, even more importantly, we will use them to uncover the hidden musical structures within so you can begin to see the fabric of how music really works. You will become unstoppable!


Highlights of Heavy Rhythm Guitar Parts I and II:

  • Build the foundations of good timing and develop unstoppable groove. Without this piece, players plateau early and remain amateur. With it, the sky's the limit!
  • Apply the best practice approaches so you can progress quickly.
  • Engrain all the most common chord forms, progressions and rhythms, plus all the essential palm muting and string damping skills, as well as vibrato and string bending techniques for controlled and precise playing.
  • 24 progressing song studies that build and integrate each aspect of technique with those of the following study.
  • 120 supplemental songs from your favorite bands, arranged in order of difficulty.
  • Understand rhythm notation and execute time evenly... the mark of a pro player.
  • Learn the music theory essentials with added quizzes to test your knowledge!
  • Bonus videos covering advanced musical concepts, secrets and tricks.


*Note: To take full advantage of this course, you'll need the book/audio methods Metal Rhythm Guitar Vol 1 and 2 as well as Total Rock Guitar handy, as these books contain all the tab and audio performance and backing tracks.

Troy Stetina

Troy Stetina is a guitarist, music educator and author specializing in all styles of rock, metal, and shred guitar. He has created more than 50 book/audio and video methods that have sold over 1 million copes and guided a generation of guitarists toward mastery. He's taught beginners to rock stars, conducted masterclasses around the world, and recorded and performed extensively. He is an avid reader of science, history, cosmology, philosophy, psychology, comparative religion and spirituality. He was also an ordained minister who enjoys traveling, hiking, movies with plots, good TED talks, and a dark, night sky. He resides in New Mexico with his wife Alexis.

Course curriculum

    1. Higher Standards, Spiral Learning, Balance & Coaching

    2. Rhythm vs Lead: It's time to add some easy licks and solos, too.

    1. MRG Chapter 7 Examples

    2. MRG Study: Lucky Day

    3. TRG Study: Rockability

    4. Structural Analysis

    5. Learn 10 Songs

    6. Song: Lightning Crashes - Live

    7. Song: Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) - Big & Rich

    8. Song: Surrender - Cheap Trick

    9. Song: Centuries - Fall Out Boy

    10. Song: Plush - Stone Temple Pilots

    11. Song: Round and Round - Ratt

    12. Song: American Idiot - Green Day

    13. Song: Hail to the King - Avenged Sevenfold

    14. Song: So Cold - Breaking Benjamin

    15. What's Next?

    1. MRG Chapter 8 Examples

    2. MRG Study: In the Spirit

    3. Harmonic Analysis: In the Spirit

    4. TRG Study: Southern Comfort

    5. Harmonic Analysis: Southern Comfort

Course Curriculum

  • 22 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

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