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This Month, Live: Classic R&B for Guitar — Part 3 · Sep 26 · included with membershipLive Workshops With Adam, Every Month — Plus a Library of Dozens of Classes.
Get better. Every day. The Academy Membership gives you a new live workshop with Adam every month, the full library, live practice sessions, and a community of players right beside you — so you finally keep moving forward. $1,500+ of training unlocked the day you join.
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Happening This Month in the Academy
Classic R&B for Guitar — Part 3 Live
● Live with Adam • Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM Pacific
- ✓Beyond the 12-bar blues into the harmony and feel of classic R&B and Soul
- ✓The chords, voicings, and pocket behind Stax, Motown & the Philadelphia Sound
- ✓Live Q&A — bring your guitar and your favorite soul song
A 3-part live series. Parts 1 and 2 (July 18 and August 15) are already recorded and waiting in your library. Part 3 is Sep 26 — each recorded and unlocked in your library, along with everything else.
Get this event + dozens of other classes, instantly
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What Opens the Day You Join.
The practice tools — open in your browser
Guitar Tuner
Chromatic — any tuning
Metronome & Rhythm
Four Feels, swing, a kit, a gap trainer
Interval Trainer
Every interval on the neck, in any key
Scale Trainer
Major and the pentatonics, anywhere
Triad Trainer
Every inversion, closed and open voiced
Nucleus Patterns
Adam’s five boxes and the joins
Fretboard Diagrams
Voicings, maps, printable sheets
Progression Lab
Any progression, every way to play it
And the rooms they sit in
What Membership Is
The Room, and Everything Live In It.
Your $37 a month opens
- The daily workout — six stations, your keys and tempos, and a streak
- Every key in the Scale and Triad Trainers, and every position
- The Progression Lab and the Fretboard Diagrams builder, in full
- The advanced metronome — swing, odd meters, multi-bar and the gap trainer
- First-Saturday Q&A with Adam
- The community
- The full workshop library, plus every new workshop live
And what you buy stays bought
The signature courses, the backing-track albums and the 24-Day Challenge are their own things — bought once, yours permanently. The Method is applied for. They sit on the same shelf as your membership, and they are bought separately from it.
That separation is deliberate, and it works in your favour: the day you ever stop your membership, everything you own is still sitting on your shelf exactly where you left it.
What is on, and where the room is
Bring a question — Adam works through them on camera.
The last of the three. Parts 1 and 2 are already in your library.
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How the Value Works
What Unlocks Today. What Keeps Coming Every Month.
Instant Access
- ✓The complete workshop library — 20+ workshops, $1,500+ of training, previously sold at $75 each
- ✓Structured study guides & practice exercises for every workshop
- ✓The private member community
- ✓All eight practice tools, fully open — every key and every position in the trainers, plus the Fretboard Diagram builder
- ✓The Academy mobile app — watch anywhere, anytime
The Living Membership
- ✓A new live workshop with Adam — new topic every month, recorded to your library
- ✓Monthly live practice sessions with the community
- ✓Ask Adam Anything — direct answers from Adam
- ✓New content every month: workshops, jam tracks, challenges, mini-courses
- ✓Pathway to The Adam Levine Guitar Method
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You’ve Put In the Hours
Practicing Alone Is Why You've Stalled.
You've put in real hours. So why does it feel like you're standing still? It usually isn't talent — it's trying to grow with no structure, no feedback, and no one to play with.
The Plateau
Your progress has flattened. Practice feels aimless — you pick up the guitar, run the same things, and put it down no better than before.
The Fading Spark
Motivation fades with no structure, no feedback, and no one to play with. The spark that made you start gets harder to find.
You’ve Earned Better
A committed player deserves real guidance — not algorithm roulette. You've earned more than another random video.
The Endless Scroll
Learning alone from a thousand disconnected free videos. No path, no mentor, no community — just endless content that never adds up.
Meet Adam
50 Years of Teaching. A Lifetime of Players Who Made It.
Berklee College of Music
Graduate — one of the most competitive music programs in the world
Dick Grove School of Music, LA
Directed the Guitar Department — trained professional session players
Musicians Institute, Hollywood
Faculty — taught alongside the world's top guitar educators
Private Study with Joe Pass
Studied personally with one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century
Studio & Session Work
Motown Records, Capitol, Warner Brothers • TV: Cheers, Simon & Simon, Merv Griffin
Mentor to Working Musicians
Taught the players who performed with Michael Jackson, George Benson, Celine Dion, and Quincy Jones
Simple by Design
How the Academy Works.
Three simple steps. No guesswork — just show up and keep getting better.
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Instant access to the full workshop library — the day you join. Years of structured training, unlocked immediately.
Show Up Live Every Month
A new workshop with Adam, plus live practice sessions. Real-time instruction, real-time questions, real breakthroughs.
Keep Leveling Up
With the community, new content every month, and a clear next step — so your progress compounds instead of stalling.
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Inside the Academy
Everything You Get from $37 a Month
Less than the cost of a single private lesson — for a full month of structured instruction, community, and direct access to a 50-year master educator.
Monthly Live Workshops with Adam
A new advanced topic every month, taught live. Real-time instruction, real-time questions, real breakthroughs — not pre-packaged content.
The Complete Workshop Library
Every past workshop, recorded and instantly unlocked when you join. Years of structured deep dives, available on demand from day one.
Structured Study Guides & Practice Exercises
Every workshop comes with homework, exercises, and practice structures — so you always know exactly what to work on between sessions.
Private Member Community
Connect with serious guitarists at your level. Share your progress, get feedback, and stop learning alone.
Monthly Live Practice Sessions
Guided group practice with structure and accountability. Show up, plug in, and put the month's material to work in real time.
Ask Adam Anything
Stuck on a concept? Fighting a technique problem? Ask Adam directly and get an answer from the educator himself — every month.
All Eight Practice Tools, Fully Open
Every key and every position in the Scale and Triad Trainers, the advanced metronome, the Progression Lab, and the Fretboard Diagram builder in full — the whole toolkit, open in your browser from the day you join.
Pathway to The Adam Levine Guitar Method
Academy membership makes you eligible for the Method — sixteen weeks with Adam, taught in a group, for total musical freedom.
New Content Every Single Month
Workshops, mini-courses, jam tracks, challenges — the library grows every month you're a member. It never goes stale.
Watch Anywhere, Anytime
Every live session is recorded and added to your members-only portal. Can't attend live? Catch the replay on your schedule.
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Your Monthly Breakthrough
Years of Deep Dives. Unlocked the Moment You Join.
These aren't YouTube tutorials. Each workshop is a focused, structured training designed to create a real breakthrough in one specific area of your playing — across all three pillars: rhythm, melody, and harmony.
Classic R&B for Guitar — Beyond the 12-Bar Blues
Go beyond the blues into the sophistication of R&B and Soul — Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, the Stax, Motown & Philadelphia sound, and the techniques to play it authentically.
Beatles Harmony
How the Beatles reshaped popular harmony — from the early singles to the studio years. Three sessions on the chords, modulations, and voice-leading behind the songs everyone knows.
Intros, Outros & Turnarounds
The moments that make a song sound finished. Learn how to open, close, and turn around any tune with intention — instead of just starting and stopping.
Fun, R&B & Soul Guitar
The rhythm vocabulary, chord voicings, and feel that define R&B and soul guitar — the stuff that makes people move.
Steely Dan: Getting Inside “Rikki Don't Lose That Number”
A full harmonic dissection of one of the most sophisticated songs in pop history — and what it teaches you about chord function and voice leading.
The Secret to “In The Pocket” Funk Guitar
What “the pocket” actually is, why most guitarists play on top of it, and how to lock in so deep the drummer turns around and smiles.
Rock Harmony
The harmonic engine behind rock's greatest songs — power chord logic, modal color, and why some progressions hit harder than others.
Next Level Blues
Move past the 12-bar clichés. Substitutions, phrasing concepts, and harmonic moves that make your blues sound like yours.
From Blues to Jazz
The bridge from blues vocabulary into jazz — the substitutions, voice leading, and harmonic moves that open the door to a whole new sound.
Unlocking the Mystery of Chord Progressions
Why progressions work — chord function, cadences, and the logic that lets you predict, reharmonize, and write your own.
Plus the Full Archive — Instant Access on Joining
- ▶Next Level Groove — Dec 2025
- ▶Art of Rhythm Guitar — Jul 2025
- ▶Blues Chop Shop: First Floor — Mar 2025
- ▶Triads, Arpeggios & the 3 Pillars of Music — Mar 2024
- ▶Melodies, Rhythms & Soloing — Feb 2024
- ▶Pentatonic Patterns, Kernel Chords & Altered Dominant Chords — Jan 2024
- ▶Mastering Guitar Basics — Jul 2023
Every workshop here sold separately at $75. Members get all of them — every recording, study guide, and exercise set — the moment they join.
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More Than Lessons
You're Not Learning Alone Anymore.
The biggest reason guitarists stall isn't lack of information — it's isolation. The Academy fixes that.
Monthly Live Practice Sessions
Structured group practice, live with the community. Accountability, momentum, and a reason to pick up the guitar with purpose — every single month.
Ask Adam Anything
A direct line to a 50-year master educator. Bring your sticking points and get answers from the source — not from a comments section.
Take the Academy On the Go
Every workshop, jam track, and the whole community — right in your pocket. Download the Academy mobile app and learn anywhere.
New Content Every Month
Workshops, jam tracks, challenges, and mini-courses keep landing in your library. The Academy you join today is smaller than the one you'll have next year.
Where This Takes You
Imagine Twelve Months of Real Progress.
A workshop a month with Adam. A community that keeps you accountable. And skills that actually compound — instead of another year of starting and stopping alone.
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Member Voices
What Happens When You Stop Learning Alone.
"One of the big lightbulb notes for me was when I studied with Adam at the Dick Grove School of Music — he would stand at the chalkboard and write out guide tone lines using the 3rds and the 7ths of the chords and connect them. It was like a magic trick. He can take these very fundamental ingredients and turn them into jazz, and he showed us how to do it."
"The Academy is where it all comes together. Monthly live workshops, a full course library, jam tracks, community, and direct access to Adam every month."
"Have played for 15 years now. The APPROACH Adam uses really sets this apart from anything I’ve ever experienced. Do yourself a big favor."
"One of the greatest, most amazing teachers in my life! And an amazing, awesome guitarist!"
"I really like your lessons because they are so thorough! I’ve been getting more fundamental help from your lessons — extremely educational."
"Adam’s teaching made getting into Berklee a breeze."
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What Standing Still Costs
Another Year Alone Is Another Year on the Same Plateau.
Another year of solo practice is another year of the same frustration — still stuck, still guessing. Momentum comes from showing up: live, monthly, with a guide and a room full of serious players.
And That's Just the Beginning
This Month's Workshop Is One Event. The Academy Is Every Month.
Every month, Adam teaches a new live workshop on a topic that actually moves your playing forward — harmony, rhythm, soloing, groove, the things that separate players who noodle from players who make music. When you join, you don't just get this month's event. You get the entire library of past workshops, structured study guides, live practice sessions, a private community, and direct access to Adam himself.
One-off lessons give you a quick fix. The Academy gives you a path — with a mentor walking it with you.
Join Today
One Private Lesson Costs More Than a Full Month of This.
A single one-hour private lesson with an educator of Adam's caliber runs well over $57. The Academy gives you a full month of live instruction, the entire workshop library, community, and direct access to Adam — for less.
The Academy Membership
✓ Billed annually ($444) — or $57/mo monthly • Cancel anytime
- ✓ Attend Classic R&B for Guitar live — Part 3, Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM Pacific
- ✓ All 3 parts (Jul 18 · Aug 15 · Sep 26) recorded and saved to your library
- ✓ Monthly live workshops with Adam — new topic every month
- ✓ The complete workshop library — $1,500+ of training, previously sold at $75 each
- ✓ Structured study guides & practice exercises
- ✓ Private member community
- ✓ Monthly live practice sessions
- ✓ Ask Adam Anything — direct answers from Adam
- ✓ All eight practice tools, fully open — every key, every position, plus the diagram builder
- ✓ Pathway to The Adam Levine Guitar Method
7-Day Money-Back Guarantee • Cancel Anytime • Instant Access
7-Day Money-Back Guarantee. Join, explore the workshop library, attend a session. If the Academy isn't the most structured, substantive guitar instruction you've experienced — email us within 7 days for a complete refund. No questions, no hoops. And you can cancel your membership anytime, with one click.
And what you buy stays bought. Any Signature Course you own is yours permanently. Cancelling your membership never touches it — that is how the accounts are built, not a policy that could change later.
FAQ
Questions? Answered.
If I join now, do I really get to attend the live workshop?
Yes. Part 3 of Classic R&B for Guitar happens live on Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM Pacific, and every active Academy member attends. Parts 1 and 2 are already recorded in the library, and the series finishes live on Sep 26 — every session recorded and added to your library.
What if I can't attend the live sessions?
No problem — every live session is recorded and added to your member library, usually within a day. You can catch up anytime, rewatch lessons, and move at your own pace.
Who is the Academy for?
Passionate guitarists who want to break through plateaus and grow consistently — hobbyists, professionals, and creatives who've been playing for years, as well as ambitious younger players preparing for bands, music school, or a professional path. If you're serious about growing, there's a place for you here.
How is this different from free YouTube lessons?
Simple: this is a method, not a pile of content. You follow a structured path built on the Three Musical Pillars — Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony — with live monthly coaching, real feedback, a real community, and a library designed to build on itself. You won't find that on YouTube.
Do I need to know music theory?
No. You'll learn theory in the context of playing, not as abstract concepts. The goal is to understand music as a language — not to memorize rules.
How does the Academy fit with the Signature Courses and The Method?
The three work together as one learning ecosystem. The Academy gives you consistent monthly guidance, the practice tools and the community. The Signature Courses let you master a specific skill on your own time, and what you buy stays bought — a course you own is yours permanently, whether or not you are a member that month. The Method is the destination: sixteen weeks with Adam, taught in a group. Many students use the Academy to prepare for it.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Your membership is month-to-month with no contracts and no commitments. Cancel anytime from your account — you keep access through the end of your billing period.
Is there a money-back guarantee?
Yes. The Academy comes with a 7-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. Join, look around, attend a session — if it's not for you, email us within 7 days for a full refund.
One More Thing
The Live Session Is Sep 26. The Decision Is Today.
You've been playing long enough to know that another random tutorial won't change anything. A structured path, a master teacher, and a community that keeps you moving — that's what changes things. Join before Sep 26 and start with Classic R&B for Guitar, Part 3, live with Adam — Parts 1 and 2 are already in your library.
The recording is in the workshop library for every member.
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