Happy New Year (and a new guitar technique series)
Happy New Year All!
This year I want to kick things off with something slightly different. Throughout January there's going to be a short daily video, designed to get your guitar playing off to the best possible start in 2025. I'm going to be covering a huge range of different techniques, with plenty of music theory and general fretboard knowledge thrown in along the way. I hope some of you are going to join me for the entire project, and work through each video in 'real time', as it were. But this series is also something you can dip in and out of, and return to any time you like as a kind of archive of guitar technique exercises and ideas.
There will be a daily tab/GP file posted here. And at the end of the series I'll compile all the tabs into a single PDF workbook. Hope you enjoy it, and good luck with it!
The ACPG 30 Day Guitar Technique Challenge: Welcome! (YouTube)
Comments (76)
Heck yeah man! 2025, year of change. Let's do this!
Wooo, lets do this. Thank you, Adrián
Thank you Adrian. Clever idea. Really looking forward to it
Happy New Year Adrian, thanks very much for what you do, it's much appreciated.
Happy new year from Toulouse, France. & many thanks for the quality of what you offer ;)
Thanks for what you do, Adrain!
Can't wait for it. Brillant idea. Thank you.
Happy New Year from Tokyo. Will try and keep up for the month
Sheila in Cairns, Australia. Fantastic Adrian, looking forward to it. Happy New Year!
Excited! Will be there for first day of class tomorrow right on time. See ya!
Looking forward to it. Happy New Year all!
This is a fabulous idea. I'm very much looking forward to participating.
OK just heard the classroom bell ring. I'll be in my desk ears perked tomorrow! Great Idea.
Learning from you gas made me a better player. So I'm in on this one for sure. See you soon. Happy New Year to you, Adrian and your family!
I was having trouble deciding what my guitar resolution for the new year should be, this will be great!
This sounds great and just the sort of thing I need! Happy New Year
Happy New Year Adrian. I'm in..
Happy new year Adrian and all your followers. This could be the kick up the backside I need, to get me out of my guitar mental block. Where I just can’t bare to pick it up. Although I have played for over 30 years. Totally frustrated. Hopefully I will get back in the saddle. Cheers Adrian
I'm in! Let the fun begin!
Happy New Year and thanks for your efforts , Adrian!!Looking forward to this…
Happy New Year, looking forward to it. I need to work on my technique.
Looking forward to this! I’ll have to start late since I’m traveling for the next few days, but I’ll join in next week! Hope everyone has a 2025 full of 🎸
Can’t wait to get cracking! Happy New Year indeed!
A brilliant idea for the new year! I am in! See you tomorrow. Oh, and Happy New Year to all!
Nice one Adrian look forward to these. Happy New Year.
Looking forward to starting this. I really need to get my act together and do some practicing!
Happy New Year
Great idea! Happy new year and thank you for all you do. I hope there will be some exercises that don't require the fretting hand and/or the guitar include. I'm having neurosurgery in 16 days and will be incapacitated for a good bit.
Best of luck to you!
You have to be the most dedicated guitar instructor out there! I gotta ask you, do you ever sleep? Lol. I’m really looking forward to this.
Happy New Year Adrian and Thank you!
Feliz Año Nuevo 🪅 From Acayucan Mexico. I brought my headless electric travel guitar and Spark Go to practice, Day Zero and I’m on it !
Adrian - Happy New Year and thank you - you're off to a great start!
Happy new year Adrian
me too! right around 2:30 I started suspecting no banana boat lesson. good laugh on a gray morning...
Happy new year, looks like a great start, ready to jump in.!!
Nice idea, look forward to the vids to come.
Wow, from the title I thought we were going to learn some Harry Belafonte Calypso. ‘Daylight gone and me wanna go home.’
such a great idea
Happy new year Adrian! Looking forward to the challenge. Thrive
Love the idea! Thanks, Adrian.
Fantastic idea, Adrian. I can use the focus in my practicing for sure; my fundamentals get sloppy. Thanks, and happy new year!
Happy new year. Country me in!
Happy New Year! This will be fun, Thank you
Happy New Year to you Adrian. This was my first email of 2025. Thank you. Sounds like you’re talking 'bout a Resolution. Hey, you didn’t tell us about the gear used in this video.
Happy New Year!
I’m here for it 👍🏻🎶🎸
Great idea Adrian, I'm looking forward to getting started. My 18yo son is getting the guitar bug so I'll be recommending it to him. Happy new year!
Happy New Year. Looking forward to it. Don’t know if you take requests but I would like to learn more (other then the pentatonic or 1st position major scale) major scale shapes/modes and some practical applications for them. Have an awesome 2025 🤘
Thanks
What a nice surprise Adrian, thanks so much and Happy New Year from Japan. Looking forward to the challenge.
Happy New Year Adrian and thanks a lot for your commitment.
Great idea! Count me in!
Happy New Year Adrian, love this idea, something to look forward to each day during January - Thank you!
Happy New Year! Love it and very excited for the challenge.
Love this! Im on board and Happy New Year from Houston, TX!
Great….bring it on. 😎
This is really nice of you! Thanks for helping us become better bad-ass guitar slingers. Happy New Year and the very best to you from the soggy Pacific Northwest.
Cheers Kurtis and Happy New Year to you. Equally soggy here in London!
Happy New Year Adrian. What a great idea!
Challenge accepted! Happy New Year to you and thank you for the effort.
Great idea!
Happy New Year Adrian, sounds like a great idea
Hope you have a peaceful and prosperous New Year! Thanks for all the quality content in 2024; I'm looking forward to all that lies ahead and this is a great start, thanks again.
Cheers Adrian, sounds great. Happy New Year to you
Fantastic idea. I’m so ready for something like this.
This is a very generous new year offering, and one I'll definitely be using - thank you!
Great, Adrian. I’m in. Happy new year to you and family.
Sounds great, trying to stop it turning into the random "X" bar blues I normally noodle will be a challenge! HNY
A very happy new year to you.
This is a wonderful idea. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Adrian. And a Happy New Year to you and your family.
Happy new year from France And thanks for all good music.
Happy New Yesr to you, Adrian and everyone around you. That’s an amszing and very generous idea of you! Thanks a ton, very much looking forward to ACPG „Daily Dose“. Greetings from Munich, Florian
Thanks Florian and Happy New Year to you too!
Looking forward to it Adrian - thanks!!!
Great, hope you enjoy it!