I would love to hear other people's top resources that helped them grow! I'm sure weeklybeats of course may be the #1 answer for a lot of people, myself included

My list:
1. Weeklybeats (duh!). Why: lots of riffs prior, unfinished work all over the place, perfectionist paralysis and a lot of "I need to get better before I record for real" thinking when recording for real is the best way to get in-context feedback on improving at it. Put out two full albums thanks to WB2024 including higher quality material than I ever put out from 2007 to 2023.
2. Troy Stetina (guitar). Why: in-context learning. Every song comes with examples and exercises, well chosen, curated, and taught. I even have some of them in Chinese versions I liked them so much. Includes some ear training and songwriting emphasis too.
3. Chord Crush (ear). Why: Improved my songwriting abilities and depth of appreciation and understanding. I have not seen a better more in-context ear training course than this. I recently got to top 30 global on the leaderboard xD.
4. Mastering vibrato (voice). Why: I could never do a good vibrato except high in my range, like in Iron Maiden style pulled up chest with British vowels. I can now do a variety of types on nearly all the notes, styles, and volumes, really improving the expression and control.

Honorable mentions:
1. Troy Grady (guitar). Why: the picking technique genius who helped me understand how to break through the 120bm 16th notes barrier I was stuck at for years not understanding why no matter how perfectly I practiced at 115bpm, it just wouldn't seem to land at 120bpm+. Can now play a lot of picked riffs 140-160bpm which is where picking sounds "shreddy".
2. David Lucas Burge (ear). Why: Although not super practical, was the start of taking my decently developed ear from learning to play the N64 Zelda music that can guess and check to the next level. Although applying it consistently in the context of realtime music would take longer.
3. Kristofer Dahl (guitar). Why: Really excellent feel, variety of styles, ton of videos, fun community site with a lot of community content, challenges, etc.
4. My first guitar teacher. Why: Was very good for the few months he taught me, was a big Rhoads fan and definitely rubbed off on me, but since then I have occasionally tried to explore in person vocal and guitar teachers, and none of them really felt like a great use of time. Hard to find a good one, and the other online resources shared above have worked out better.

Last edited by FrogCity (December 25, 2025 2:31 am)