Stephen Lowell Brannen - Testimonial
Professional guitarist & instructor at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga.
“I took lessons from Carvel back in the early 80's.
He was a great teacher.
Guitar, music, life, professionalism - he taught all of it!
He taught me a lot of things but one of the most important things was to connect the fingerboard all up and down. Go anywhere on your fingerboard and you're surrounded by notes you are familiar with. You can see notes and chords as one big long singular thing (map) rather than a bunch of little (disconnected) things.”
- Stephen Brannen
THE RAPID GROWTH LEARNING TOOLS
What you get with your Guitar Creative membership
With an extensive library of jam tracks, all expertly recorded in every key, JamTrack Zone lets you jam for hours! Watch as the fretboard display guides you to the notes that fit every section of each chord progression. Whether you're a beginner or advanced player, JamTrack Zone empowers you to learn your fretboard like nothing else.
Riff Lab is a new, revolutionary guitar software that runs right in your browser. It's the power behind Scale Mate, Arpeggio Flow and Key Weaver. Not only will it help you craft ear tickling riffs, it guides you on the most efficient pick strokes and expressive left-hand techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides. You can get access to Riff Lab for free by getting a free user account.
Leveraging the power of Riff Lab, Scale Mate gives you quick and easy access to major, minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, diminished, altered, octatonic and wholetone scales in every key. Build an awesome, new riff with Riff Lab using the notes of any scale, anywhere across the guitar fretboard.
Arpeggio Flow gives you quick and easy access to all the notes of any chord you can think of across the fretboard in every key. Use the notes of any chord to build a new riff leveraging the power of Riff Lab.
FORMER STUDENT
“In one of our lessons together Carvel mapped out a G major scale all the way up the fretboard.
I have spent hours practicing and still do. Seeing that total map of the fretboard helped me so much!!
Seeing fretboard diagrams all the way up the fretboard has helped me understand theory and modes. It's been a really great asset.
Very few guitarists are both great players and great teachers. Thank you very much!!!”
- Adam Vann
Want to find fresh, new ways of playing any chord in any key? Look no further! Just select a key and bam! You'll see a set of buttons that show you every note of each chord in that key. It's the perfect companion for songwriters and, like all the tools we have here, it's available to you in your free account.
Sometimes you just want a great resource for quickly finding several ways to play any chord. That's where Chord Vault shines. Click the arrow buttons to find different fingerings at different fret positions. View fingerings, note names or chord intervals.
Interval Madness is a fun, competitive game designed to improve your guitar interval knowledge. Quickly identify intervals on a fretboard, earn points, and compete for high scores. This engaging tool makes mastering intervals and ear training enjoyable and effective. Let the challenge commence!
Fretboard Freedom: The Essentials
Included With Free Account
This course will give you the essentials, the things you can't afford not to know.
If you want the freedom every serious player aspires to, this is a must-have course. The entire course is free to all new members of Guitar Creative.
No matter your playing experience, making sure you learn these essentials is critical to your progress in the long run. You will be introduced to concepts that will give you jet fuel to supercharge your progress for years to come.
Let me help you jumpstart your journey towards true fretboard freedom.
I hope this course will begin some of your greatest aha-moments - things that you can take with you through the rest of your guitar journey.
ASK A DRUMMER!
Want to know about a guitar player? Ask a drummer! Both of the drummers below have played with their share of great guitar players. Check out what they have to say about playing with Carvel Avis.
“Carvel always plays the right part and with feel and emotion. I met Carvel back in the late 1970’s. We were playing together in the NLU Jazz Band. He has been one of the top guitarist I’ve had the pleasure of working with! Although I’ve been in Nashville since 1980, I have kept in touch with Carvel.”
- Lonnie Wilson
“From the first time I played music with Carvel, he earned my total respect as a guitarist and arranger. What you see is a prepared package ready to deliver performance creativity at a top notch level. We’ve played together many years touring thousands of miles internationally. I’ve witnessed Carvel’s heart and knowledge for teaching guitar, conducting seminars and performances in many countries included in the Middle East, Europe, Central and South America. His methods are a proven testimony.”
- Mark Lane Smith
