Welcome to Electric Guitar Creativity.com

Hey my friend – I’m Antoine Michaud, electric guitar teacher, touring musician, and online course creator here on my website Electric Guitar Creativity. 

You might know me from my Youtube channel where I’m teaching lessons on a weekly basis. 

Tell me - Are you trying to do one of these things?

• Make music theory sound like REAL music
  
  
• Compose beautiful chord progressions
  
  
• Improve your melodic playing
  
  
• Use effects pedals creatively and craft sublime tones
   
• Play beautiful, creative music by yourself, and freely express yourself on electric guitar?

If so, you’ve come to the right place!

I'm teaching exactly for people like you who are not interested in learning cover songs anymore...

People who don't want to know which fret to press on, but rather understand HOW the frets work to make beautiful music THEIR way!

Let me share my story and where my love for exploring creativity as a solo electric guitar player came from:

Losing My Passion & Writing 0 Songs In 3 Years

I have not always been a prolific guitar artist.

Actually, it was quite the opposite when I started.

In the late 2000’s, I was playing in a female-fronted alt-rock band (think Paramore). We were playing many gigs around Montreal, eyed the Vans Warped Tour, but it never took off like we expected.

Me playing a ridiculous Halloween show with my band in 2009.

And to be honest, each song we were writing went further and further away from my creative vision. This wasn’t really the kind of music I wanted to make anymore.

Band practices were filled with creative differences, conflicts and tension. 

The experience was frustrating and we eventually disbanded.

And for the next 3 years I did exactly… nothing.

I recorded small song ideas on my phone, but I was pretty paralyzed with everything else.

Suffering from Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS), changing pedal after pedal, being unsatisfied about the recording quality of my guitar, wanting my songs and my playing to be perfect before I released any of them – things were not progressing. I was just discouraged.

This was a low point for me, because I knew I had some music in me. There was just no way for me to let it out! 

It was at the very end of this bad musical season that I decided to overcome my perfectionism and finally dusted off my guitar and my looper pedal with the intentions of creating music my own way. 

As I forced myself to make music and share it on my YouTube channel, I got better and better, got more joy out of the process and finally found my spark - my love for music again. Screw band members, I can do this by myself!

Serving Others & Writing 100+ Guitar Songs

After posting several videos of my music, my playing, and getting a little bit of traction on YouTube...

Many guitar players started to ask me all sorts of questions:

- How can I reproduce this sound?
- What's this chord progression?
- How do you make your songs so melodic?
- How can I play like this too?

And at that point, I understood: my next step to have success as a musician was not by focusing just on myself anymore, but by focusing on others!

So I started to post more educational content: guitar lessons, demos, tutorials, and other tips & tricks… sharing all my best stuff every week.

Teaching guitar lessons every week on my Youtube channel.

Making all this educational content made me analyze and understand how to make better guitar music and allowed me to produce some of the best songs I’ve ever written, at a faster pace than what I could have ever imagined!

From 2014 to today, I have shared 100+ music videos on Youtube, and wrote and released 6 full length albums & 4 compilations.

And what I was most proud of, was how my music was inspiring other motivated musicians to do the same.

We created a nice community of guitarists on my channel! 

Am I special? An uber-talented musician? A naturally gifted guitarist?

Not at all.

I’m just a guy who overcame perfectionism - who worked on his music one step at a time. 

And that turned to all kinds of opportunities over the years…

Like becoming a touring musician for Canadian progressive rock band Mystery, getting 20M+ views on my Youtube channel, and earning a living from teaching other people how to become creative guitarists.

Me playing with Mystery in Germany, in front of an audience of 5000.

If you’d like to learn the craft of guitar composing, and benefit from my 10+ years of experience doing it, then you’re at the right place.

It took me 10 years of searching, hard work and dedication to become the guitar artist I am today, but you can get started much faster than I did!

In fact, I want to help you right now :-)

FREE Resources

I want to help you in your guitar creativity journey, so I made a collection of free PDF guides and mini-courses you can consume to get expert guidance and inspiration along the way.

• Spread Triads Crash Course (FREE Mini-Course)
  
  
• Melodic Foundations (FREE Mini-Course)
  
  
• Start Composing Guitar Songs NOW! (FREE Mini-Course)
   
• 52 Song Prompts For Your Guitar Songs (FREE PDF Guide)
  
  
• Antoine's Chord Dictionary (FREE PDF Guide)
  
  
• Pedals Buying Guide For Any Budget (FREE PDF Guide)

Click on the button below to check them all out!