Twenty focused minutes a day on blues and rock lead

What you actually get

• A plan for today, not a library to browse

  Every day you get a short session of three to five steps — warm up, the week's scale, a technique, then a jam over the changes. No deciding what to practise.

• See it on the neck

  Scales, arpeggios and chord shapes drawn across the whole fretboard or one position, labelled by note name or scale degree, with the notes that define each chord picked out.

• A backing band, not just a click

  A metronome with tap tempo and straight or shuffle feel, plus a backing track that walks the 12-bar blues so you can solo over real changes.

• Tune up, then see what goes with what

  A tuner that works by ear or by microphone, and a chord wheel that shows which chords belong together in any key — including the borrowed ones blues and rock actually use — what each one is built from, and what to solo over it.

• Keep the streak

  Daily streaks, the days you practised this week and a twelve-week practice heatmap, so the habit is the thing you're building.

The thirty-two-week path

Week one is A minor pentatonic box 1, played clean and in time, and finding where the root actually lives. From there: bends and vibrato, call and response, the shuffle rhythm, targeting the 3rd of each chord, double stops, connecting the boxes, turnarounds, the whole neck, new keys, and writing a solo of your own. That is the first sixteen weeks.

The second sixteen are about using it. You learn one real piece properly rather than another exercise, work out where your own playing actually falls apart and fix that, play along with other people instead of alone, and end with a short set you could sit down and perform.

It is one path, played blues or rock. Most weeks teach the same skill with a different accent — the shuffle or straight eighths, dominant 7ths or power chords — and you can switch which accent you want any day without losing your place. Each week keeps one set of material and moves the tempo and the intent across the days, which is how practice actually works: learn it slow, clean it up, apply it, push it, then record yourself and listen back.

Who it's for

Intermediate players on electric guitar, working on lead and improvisation rather than first chords. If you can play open chords and a barre chord but your solos wander, or you know the pentatonic shape without knowing why it works, this is aimed squarely at you.