The Shai Guitar Academy offers an interactive learning membership as well as self-study courses. Ground your inspiration and learn to express yourself musically.

Shai Guitar Academy

a home for your practice. Video-powered community membership with ongoing personal guidance for players of all levels.



Academy Membership

Video-powered guitar learning community with ongoing personal guidance for players of all levels, positioned as “a home for your practice.” The Academy Membership includes access to all courses and supports beginners, returning players, and those wanting more structure than hopping between tutorials. Courses focus on “medicine songs,” with step-by-step videos plus downloadable tabs and lyrics/chords sheets, including a free Cuatro Vientos (Danit) course.

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Whether you're just beginning, returning after a long pause, or continuing a practice that's already a part of your life, we'd be glad to welcome you into the academy..!

Are you done solo sailing, jumping from one tutorial to the next without seeing the progress you'd hoped for? Are you ready to commit to your instrument and discover what becomes possible when you do? Are you willing to show up for the work required to master the guitar?

Say goodbye to the guesswork, procrastination and endless distractions. Instead, embrace structure, focus and expert guidance that will help you uplevel your practice time, so you can make real progress (and have fun while doing so!).

Expand your repertoire of beautiful medicine songs and practice alongside a supportive warm-hearted community of like-minded learners💪

Start working step-by-step, share your practice videos, receive personalized feedback, and ask questions directly through our **Shai Guitar Video App** or on one of the Live Calls.

As a member of the Shai Guitar Academy, you'll have access to: 

**1**. **Structured Group Learning Pathways -** tailored to your level and personal goals:

Step into the group momentum with the Monthly Focus at your appropriate level:

- Step-by-step Medicine Songs @**_Medicine Music Academy_**
  
  (**beginner** level, focused on rhythm guitar techniques: fingerpicking and strumming)

- Inspiring Improvisation Practices @**_Master the Fretboard_**
  
  (**intermediate** to **advanced** level, focused on lead guitar: chord inversions, scalar passages & original melody fingerstyle)

We meet you where you are at and help you lean into your next edge.

**2.** **Ongoing Personalized Instruction, & Feedback in a Supportive Community**

Receive personal (video) guidance from your teacher and be inspired and supported by a community of fellow-learners through our own **private** (video) community app space.

Access to regular Live Calls.

**3. Access to Academy Archives**

As a member to the Shai Guitar Academy you have access to the entire vault of existing (self-study) courses. Immerse yourself in the community's Monthly Focus or choose any song or practice from the Archives to work on.

Welcome to the most fun, real and inspirational Guitar Gym that exists!



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Academy Membership - FREE

Ever wondered how you go from being able to fingerpick/strum a song from beginning to end to actually "telling an enticing story"?

Whether you are alone or play with others, there's an art to building an arrangement in such a way that the audience gets taken on a moving musical journey. And exactly this happens to be part of Shai's mastery.

In this LIVE Hot Seat Session Shai works with the guitarists "on stage" towards their next performance, building it up step-by-step and you get to sit in (session takes place through Zoom).

Composition as communal creative process - watch songs emerge through collaboration.

You can expect the following:

- Become part of this amplified field that is co-creating ever higher expressions of beauty through music;

- Being a witness is **anything but passive!** There's an open invitation to be part of the creation by bringing what comes to you in the creation process to the table.

- Let the magic and the codes that lay in Shai's skilfulness, patience, calmness, and creativity wash over you and reawaken these parts of you.

- Enjoy being taken on a moving musical journey.

- Walk away feeling inspired by what is possible and motivated for your own practice.

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After your purchase, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to the Zoom room and the option to add the event to your calendar.

Please respect Shai and the band by:

- Showing up on time. If you can’t, we invite you to enjoy the replay.

- Please come prepared to be present, curious, receptive, having your camera on (unless this would distract others)

- Keep yourself muted throughout the call, unless invited to unmute by the hosts.

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Hot Seat Session Ticket

Try our free course to get a glimpse of the academy.

What's included:

- Full access to all practice steps (fingerpicking, chord transitions, strumming, dynamic transitions)

- Download the tabs & lyrics/chords sheet for the song

- Watch academy members practice videos for inspiration



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FREE Course - Cuatro Vientos (Danit)

Start your guitar practice with 6 beginner friendly medicine songs.

Including step-by-step practice instruction videos, tabs & lyrics/chords sheet for download.

Songs included:

- Like The River (Ayla Schafer)

- Te Nande (Curawaka)

- Gajumaru (Yaima)

- Astral Dawn (Adrian Freedman)

- Be Beautiful (Misk'i Takiy)

- En El Cielo (Puentes)

What's Included:

- Step-by-step video instructions

- Build solid foundations for your guitar technique

- Master a new song in 2–4 weeks



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Medicine Music Academy - Foundation Courses (6 Songs)

The complete catalog of MMA courses from 2024-2025:


## **Beginner Courses** (fingerpicking & strumming):

Including step-by-step practice instruction videos, tabs & lyrics/chords sheet for download.

**Songs included:**

- En El Cielo (Puentes)

- Like The River (Ayla Schafer)

- Gajumaru (Yaima)

- Te Nande (Curawaka)

- Astral Dawn (Adrian Freedman)

- Be Beautiful (Misk'i Takiy)

- Yanapuma (Shimshai)

- Cura (Rainer Scheunenbrand)

- Tzen Tze Re Rei (Lola Cosmica)

- Noku Mana (Curawaka)

- Mamae Jurema (Bastiaan Kamavena)

- Pachamama (Astral Flowers)

 


## **Intermediate Improvisation Courses** (Scales & Chord Inversions):

Including step-by-step practice instruction videos, tabs & backing tracks to practice with

- Yanapuma (Shimshai)

- Cura (Rainer Scheunenbrand)

- Gajumaru (Yaima)

- Te Nande (Curawaka)

- Tzen Tze Re Rei (Lola Cosmica)

- Pachamama (Astral Flowers)



Medicine Music Academy - Complete Courses Archive (18 Songs)

Start your guitar practice with 6 beginner-friendly medicine songs.

Including step-by-step practice instruction videos, tabs & lyrics/chords sheet for download.

Songs included:

- Like The River (Ayla Schafer)

- Te Nande (Curawaka)

- Gajumaru (Yaima)

- Astral Dawn (Adrian Freedman)

- Be Beautiful (Misk'i Takiy)

- En El Cielo (Puentes)

What's Included:

- Step-by-step video instructions

- Build solid foundations for your guitar technique

- Master a new song in 2–4 weeks



Medicine Music Academy Foundations (incl. 6 Songs)

See how the academy works and learn your first medicine song.

The free course will be available for you to try it out for a period of 4 weeks.

Enjoy your practice!



Shai Guitar Academy

What members say

Academy Membership
Uplevel your guitar practice with ongoing teacher guidance. Includes access to ALL COURSES

Medicine Music Academy - Complete Courses Archive (18 Songs)
Get the complete catalog of courses from 2024-2025

Medicine Music Academy Foundations (incl. 6 Songs)
Start your guitar practice with 6 beginner-friendly medicine songs

FREE Course - Cuatro Vientos (Danit)
Learn your first medicine song!

Shai Guitar Academy

What members say

Academy MembershipUplevel your guitar practice with ongoing teacher guidance. Includes access to ALL COURSES

Medicine Music Academy - Complete Courses Archive (18 Songs)Get the complete catalog of courses from 2024-2025

Medicine Music Academy Foundations (incl. 6 Songs)Start your guitar practice with 6 beginner-friendly medicine songs

FREE Course - Cuatro Vientos (Danit)Learn your first medicine song!

Academy Membership
Uplevel your guitar practice with ongoing teacher guidance. Includes access to ALL COURSES

Medicine Music Academy - Complete Courses Archive (18 Songs)
Get the complete catalog of courses from 2024-2025

Medicine Music Academy Foundations (incl. 6 Songs)
Start your guitar practice with 6 beginner-friendly medicine songs

FREE Course - Cuatro Vientos (Danit)
Learn your first medicine song!