Become the Metal Guitarist You Were Meant to Be

I’m already recording the kind of metal I’ve always wanted to play.

“Jason is hands down the best at making it easy and understandable!
I’m 41 and had years of playing what I’d call mediocre guitar, always outside my favorite genre.

I finally decided to dive into metal, but didn’t know where to start. After searching YouTube, I found Jason. He makes everything easy to understand.

The lessons aren’t ‘easy,’ but they work, and my picking and fingering have improved so much that I’m already recording the kind of metal I’ve always wanted to play.”
— Joshua Kingstone

Real progress from real guitarists inside the Jason Stallworth Guitar Academy.

Why Guitarists Who've Tried Everything Else Finally Make Real Progress Here

• Every lesson connects to the next: no more random riffs that go nowhere
• No theory overload: just practical metal guitar you can use immediately
• Real fundamentals that build speed, control, and confidence naturally
• Play the music you actually love: classic heavy metal, 80s metal, thrash metal, death metal
• Develop your own signature style, not a copy of someone else's
• Go at your own pace with no deadlines and no pressure

Here’s why I teach this way. I’ve toured internationally with Nasty Savage, written songs for the Polish metal band KAT, released five solo albums, and I still play live. I’ve also been breaking down metal guitar on YouTube since 2010, and that’s where my teaching comes from: I know what it feels like to be stuck, and I know how to make it click.

Brands I’ve worked with: Ibanez, Peavey, Blackstar, Digitech, Kali Audio, Electro-Voice, Toontrack, Bogren Digital

Metal Guitar Apprentice is built for anyone starting out on metal guitar, or coming back to it after years away. It takes you from your very first power chord all the way to writing your own riffs.

✅ Power chords, palm muting, and picking techniques that build the foundation every metal rhythm sits on
✅ Progressions that show you how chords actually move together in real metal songs
✅ Full riffs that put everything you've learned into something you can actually play
✅ Extended progressions and riffs that stretch those foundations once they're solid
✅ Next-level techniques, hammer-ons, pull-offs, string skipping, galloping, and more, that start giving your playing real character
✅ Riff-writing lessons that walk you through creating and connecting your own riffs, not just mine

Whether you're brand new to guitar or coming back after years away, this is the fastest path from beginner to confidently playing and writing real metal rhythm guitar.

Metal Riff Master picks up where Metal Guitar Apprentice leaves off. You get 80+ riffs across 8 different styles of metal, each one teaching you something new about rhythm, feel and fretboard knowledge, not just more of the same.

✅ 80+ riffs across 8 distinct flavors of metal, from The Power of Metal to Thrashing Hammer Riffs, Power Ballads to Extreme Riffing
✅ Every riff taught in a different key, so your fretboard knowledge grows while you play
✅ Transition riffs and otherworldly riffs that push past basic rhythm patterns into real songwriting material
✅ A dedicated riff-writing and songwriting module that shows you how to turn these ideas into your own
✅ A bonus intro to metal soloing, downpicking, alternate picking, hammer-ons, pull-offs and sweep picking licks to start building lead skills

The goal isn't to make you sound like me. It's to give you enough tools and ideas that you can start writing riffs that sound like you.

Lead Guitar Apprentice gets your hands around lead playing one clear step at a time, the scales, the techniques, and then the solos that put it all to use.

✅ The scales you'll actually use, major, minor, and key-specific scales across multiple keys, explained in plain language
✅ Core techniques every lead player needs, bends, vibrato, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, legato and rhythmic picking, each with dedicated exercises
✅ 14 solos with play-along tracks, split across Essential and Next-Level levels, so you progress at your own pace
✅ Next-level techniques, alternate and speed picking, finger tapping, and sweep picking, once your foundation is solid
✅ A full module on improvising and creating your own solos over real jam tracks, not just memorizing mine

By the end, you're not just playing solos you memorized. You're improvising and building the foundation for a lead style that's genuinely yours.

Melodic Soloist is where your solos stop sounding like memorized notes and start sounding like you. It's built around phrasing, feel, and the small choices that make a solo actually say something.

✅ Dedicated technique and phrasing work before you touch a single solo, so every note means something
✅ 20 Core Melodic Solos, each with a lesson, a play-along track and a rhythm jam track
✅ 20 Expanded Melodic Solos that push further into phrasing, feel and more advanced melodic ideas
✅ Real improvisation training, soloing over tracks and music, not just repeating patterns
✅ A dedicated module on developing your own lead style, so your solos start sounding like you

40 solos in, you'll have the vocabulary and the confidence to improvise and build melodic ideas that are entirely your own.

Simple Metal Guitar Theory strips theory down to what actually helps you play and write metal. No rules to memorize, no overwhelm, everything tied directly back to the fretboard.

✅ Major and minor scales broken down and applied across real keys, E minor, A minor, B minor, D minor, E major, G major and more
✅ Power chord theory that finally makes sense, applied the same way across multiple keys
✅ The circle of fifths and key relationships explained the simple way, with real progressions and ear-training exercises
✅ A module on breaking the "rules," playing outside the key on purpose, once you understand why it works
✅ Modes, the pentatonic and harmonic minor scales, plus timing, tempo and the guitar-specific symbols you actually need
✅ Hands-on creative assignments that have you writing and expanding your own riff ideas using everything you just learned

By the end, theory isn't a wall between you and your riffs. It's the tool that gives you more freedom to write and play exactly what you hear in your head.

7 String Apprentice is built for guitarists making the jump to seven strings for the first time. It takes what you already know on six strings and shows you exactly how the 7th string connects to it.

✅ A real foundation for the 7th string, how it connects to everything you already know on 6 string, plus the theory and essential techniques behind it
✅ 15 riffs across three progressive levels, so the extra string starts feeling natural instead of overwhelming
✅ A dedicated module on writing your own 7-string riffs, from inspiration, to building with progressions, to combining techniques
✅ Key changes and extended-range ideas once you're comfortable, so you're not just playing in one box
✅ Riff-writing tools and a focus on intuition and feel, not just theory for its own sake

Whether you're brand new to 7-string or just want it to finally click, this gets you playing, and writing, real 7-string riffs with confidence.

Monthly Riff Lessons is the heartbeat of the Academy, a brand new riff dropping twice a month, every month, for as long as you're a member.

✅ A brand new metal riff lesson released every 1st and 3rd Saturday, with full tabs and backing tracks
✅ 100+ lessons already in the library, covering thrash, 80s metal, heavy metal and death metal riffs
✅ Every lesson organized by year, so you can go back and work through past riffs anytime
✅ Everything new that gets added is already included in your membership, no extra cost, ever

It's the one part of the Academy that never stops growing, and it's already included the moment you join.

Quick Tips Library is short, focused videos that solve one challenge at a time, no fluff, just a quick answer and you're back to playing.

✅ Quick, focused tone and gear tips, including how to dial in a great metal tone with any amp
✅ Technique breakdowns on power slides, galloping, natural harmonics and pinch harmonics
✅ A full home recording studio series, gear, connections, and recording your first track start to finish
✅ New tutorials added regularly, so the library keeps growing right alongside everything else

Whenever you hit a specific question about tone, technique or recording, there's a good chance it's already answered here.

Some members say it better than I ever could!

Real Guitarists. Real Progress.

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