Masterclass: The Art of Picking
In this session, you’ll learn how to combine two powerful approaches to technique. Have your guitar ready! Selected participants can receive critique feedback.
Masterclass: The Art of Picking
Unlock the secrets to effortless speed, precision, and control.
In this session, you’ll learn how to combine two powerful approaches to technique:
- Head-On Mastery: Learn the passage, slow it down, nail the motions, and build speed by targeting the exact “break points” that hold you back.
- Component Skill Integration: Break picking into its core elements—tremolo, rhythmic control, and string crossings—then master each before reassembling them into fluid, high-speed lines.
Using Beethoven’s Sonata No. 23 as a case study, you’ll see why gradual tempo increases alone hit a wall, and how to rewire your technique for effortless speed. Walk away with a clear, step-by-step system to practice smarter and play faster.
Course curriculum
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Session 2 materials to Download
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Session 2 Video Review
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About this course
- Live Masterclass
- Sunday October 19 2025
- 10am US Mountain Time
About Troy Stetina
Troy Stetina
Elite Guitar Coaching
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Troy Stetina is an American guitarist, music educator and author. Specializing in all styles of rock, metal and shred, he created more than 50 book/audio and video methods and guided a generation of guitarists toward mastery. His first internationally published Heavy Metal Guitar methods, penned the late 1980s, set the standard in guitar pedagogy. And his legendary work, Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar, formed the shred guitar lexicon. His latest mega work is Total Picking Control: Expanded Speed Mechanics for Guitar.
Troy has taught beginners to rock stars and everywhere in between, conducted workshops and masterclasses around the world as well as recorded and performed with various bands and solo projects. An avid reader of science, history, cosmology, philosophy, psychology, comparative religion and spirituality, he is also an ordained minister who enjoys hiking, movies with plots, good TED talks, and a dark, night sky.
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