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Guitar Club is your all-in-one place to learn guitar - especially if you’re a beginner/intermediate or interested in bluegrass, flatpicking, or Western swing. 

Members get unlimited access to:

  • 400+ video lessons
  • step-by-step mini-courses
  • downloadable PDFs
  • practice tracks
  • and weekly live Q&A or jam sessions
  • Plus access to our private, supportive community of other learners that you can ask questions of, build friendships with, and get special access to Hayes (your teacher)!

Learn the styles you love at your own pace - bluegrass rhythm, flatpicking technique, Western swing chords, improvisation, and more - all in one friendly membership. 

Sign up for just one month to see what it’s all about or join us for a year for some savings! Hope to see you in there!

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$27/mo

Includes:

  • 400+ video lessons
  • PDF Downloads
  • Community Access
  • 5 Monthly LIVE calls with Hayes
  • Flatpicking Foundations Course
  • Crosspicking Course
  • Western Swing Rhythm Course
  • ...and MORE
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$297/year

Includes:

  • 400+ video lessons
  • PDF Downloads
  • Community Access
  • 5 Monthly LIVE calls with Hayes
  • Flatpicking Foundations Course
  • Crosspicking Course
  • Western Swing Rhythm Course
  • ...and MORE
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Experience Live Cohort Learning

Live cohorts are small, friendly 6-week online courses taught live on Zoom with me, Hayes. 

These programs give you real-time coaching, feedback, and accountability while learning alongside other guitarists.

Each cohort meets weekly and is open to all levels. If you learn best with structure, community, and live support, these programs are a great fit! Hope to see you there!

Swing Guitar 201 - Spring 2026 Cohort

A 6-Week Course to Play Swing Changes with Confidence, Clarity, and Style. If Swing Guitar 101 taught you what to play, Swing Guitar 201 teaches you how to connect it all together.

$247.00 USD

Fretboard Freedom - Spring 2026 Cohort

A 6-Week Guitar Course to Finally Understand Where You Are — and Where to Go Next. If you’ve ever thought â€œI know some scales… but I don’t actually know the fretboard” â€” this course was built for you.

$247.00 USD

Choose Your Own Adventure With Courses

Looking to learn a specific skill more in depth? Then these self-paced guitar courses might do the trick!

These are designed for beginners and early-intermediate guitar players who want to master the fundamentals or techniques for bluegrass and Western swing. 

Each course is taught by Hayes (a fellow musician and music teacher of 18+ years) and includes: 

  • high-quality video lessons
  • play-along demonstrations
  • and real musical examples to help you build confidence and technique

These courses are ideal if you want bite-sized, structured lessons that help you play real music right away or focus your learning on one area. 

Click on each course option below to get more details for that course!

Flatpicking Foundations

Flatpicking Foundations is your step-by-step path from “I’ve never touched a guitar” to confidently playing your first bluegrass fiddle tunes. With 26 beginner-friendly video lessons and over two hours of clear, structured instruction, you’ll learn everything you need to get started the right way — from understanding the parts of the guitar and choosing the right instrument, to proper posture, right- and left-hand technique, boom-chuck rhythm, and your first simple melodies. By the end, you won’t just know about the guitar… you’ll be playing real bluegrass music with confidence, clean technique, and a solid foundation that sets you up for a lifetime of growth.

$197.00 USD

Intro to Swing Guitar

Intro to Swing Guitar is a complete, self-paced deep dive into the language of swing guitar—designed for players who want to move beyond cowboy chords and start comping, soloing, and hearing harmony with confidence. You’ll learn closed-position swing chord shapes, essential inversions, walking bass movement, and the rhythmic feel that defines classic and Western swing, while also developing the fretboard awareness and ear skills needed to actually use these sounds in real music. Whether you’re brand new to swing or looking to solidify your foundation, this bundle gives you a clear, step-by-step path to building authentic swing rhythm and melodic vocabulary—without overwhelm, and at your own pace.

$197.00 USD

Modern Bluegrass Crosspicking

In this step-by-step course, Hayes Griffin unpacks one of the core elements of bluegrass and modern acoustic guitar playing - crosspicking. Pioneered by legends like George Shuffler, Doc Watson, Clarence White, and Tony Rice, crosspicking has become an essential technique employed by nearly all modern acoustic guitar players.  Through this course, Hayes will show you the basic building blocks of crosspicking, applying them to numerous etudes, exercises, and tunes.  All PDFs and MP3 downloads are listed on the Course homepage, so download your files and let's get to crosspicking!

$97.00 USD

30 Days of Bluegrass Guitar

This fun, vertical-format 30-day course is the perfect starting point for absolute beginners. In short, easy-to-follow daily lessons, you’ll learn the essentials of bluegrass rhythm guitar, get introduced to lead playing, master classic beginner tunes like Angelina Baker, explore simple scales, and even take your first steps into improvisation. By the end of the month, you’ll have the skills and confidence to strum along, pick basic melodies, and start making real music on your own—no prior experience required. Hayes even includes a bonus month of content to keep you headed down the path to flatpicking glory!

$97.00 USD

Bluegrass Flatpicking Masterclass Collection

Level up your playing with this comprehensive series of fifteen hour-long masterclasses designed for intermediate to advanced guitarists. Each session dives deep into essential flatpicking skills, including floating-hand technique, creative ways to vary fiddle tunes, effective practice strategies, chord substitutions, voice-leading with triads, introductory swing lead guitar concepts, ear-training tactics, and more. With over fifteen hours of guided instruction, this course gives you the tools to refine your mechanics, expand your musical vocabulary, and unlock more confident, musical improvisation across the fretboard.

$97.00 USD

Intro to Western Swing Rhythm Guitar

Intro to Western Swing Rhythm Guitar gives you the tools to play the classic “sock rhythm” style made famous by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Asleep at the Wheel, Hot Club of Cowtown, and other legendary western swing bands. Through clear, step-by-step lessons, you’ll learn the closed-position swing chord shapes and essential inversions that create that unmistakable driving groove — including the walking bass–infused sock patterns that define the genre. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to lock into a solid western swing rhythm, outline chord changes cleanly, and bring authentic Texas-style swagger to any jam, band, or solo performance.

$47.00 USD

Everyday Music Theory

Everyday Music Theory is a clear, lecture-based course designed to teach you how music works from the inside out. Instead of focusing on playing exercises, this course trains your ears and your mind—guiding you from zero theory knowledge to a practical understanding of the musical alphabet, how to measure intervals, how scales and chords are built, and how common harmonic progressions function. By the end, you’ll be able to recognize what you’re hearing, understand the “why” behind the music you play, and apply these concepts confidently to any style.

$47.00 USD

Schedule Private Lessons

Private guitar lessons are perfect for complete beginners as well as players exploring bluegrass, flatpicking, Western swing, and general acoustic guitar. 

Your lessons will include topics like technique, rhythm, improvising, theory, repertoire, and practice habits - all tailored to your goals. 

Lessons are held biweekly and available in packages of 6 or 12 sessions for consistent progress and personalized guidance.

Whether you’re learning your first chords or preparing tunes for a jam session, private lessons provide focused, supportive instruction to help you grow faster. 

6 Lesson Accelerator

Perfect for players who want focused progress on a specific skill in a defined timeframe. This 3-month track (biweekly lessons) gives us the space to target a clear musical goal and actually finish it together — whether that’s building a solid understanding of basic music theory, mapping triads all over the fretboard, or taking 2–3 fiddle tunes and learning how to create variations, breaks, and improvisations. This package creates accountability, momentum, and a tangible musical win you can point to at the end.

$600.00 USD

12 Lesson Accelerator

Designed for students who want deeper, long-term growth and transformation in their playing. Over 6 months of biweekly lessons, we can tackle bigger projects that take time to develop: correcting technical habits, building speed and accuracy, applying jazz or bluegrass theory in real improvisation, or reshaping how you approach the guitar altogether. This package gives us the continuity and structure to make lasting changes—not just quick wins—so you come out with stronger technique, clearer musical understanding, and a more confident voice on your instrument.

$1,000.00 USD

Enjoy Some Freebies!

Feel free to poke around at my collection of free beginner guitar resources below!

These are designed to help new players get started with clear basics like beginner chords, rhythm patterns, warmups, flatpicking drills, and simple swing progressions.

Plus they are a great way to experience my (Hayes’) teaching style, and start building your skills, at no cost. Enjoy!

Bluegrass Survival Kit

Welcome to the Bluegrass Survival Kit - the ultimate bag of tools for beginner/intermediate flatpickers or guitar converts from any other style.

Free

Triads Mini Course

In this 3 lesson mini-course, you will get a solid foundation in what triads are, how they related to the major scale, how to invert triads, plus some exercises to get them under your fingers. 

Free