Turn Frustration into Neoclassical Fury.
The ultimate blueprint to unlocking legendary speed, mechanics, and vocabulary.
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YES - I WANT SPEED, CONTROL & FLUIDITY23 Modules
Unlock the Viking technique in detailed video lessons.
117 Practice Sessions
Turn your vision into virtuosity with guided practice.
645 Examples
From speed runs to arpeggios and classical vocabulary.
Have you ever been inspired by the music you love... only to feel completely frustrated when you try to play it?
Hitting a wall is real. But let's clear something up: it has absolutely nothing to do with a "lack of talent."
The real challenge is bridging the gap between vision and virtuosity — turning what imagine into what your fingers can actually execute on the fretboard.
For me, that gap opened the moment I heard Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force. The blazing speed, the cascading arpeggios — I wanted it immediately. What I didn't expect was how long it would take, or how badly my hands would fight me along the way. It was going to take more than time and dedication.
When you sit down with your own guitar, do you run into these same roadblocks?
- Your fingers feel heavy, sluggish, and unresponsive.
- Your picking hand completely fumbles the moment the tempo ticks upward.
- Tired, generic advice like "just use a metronome" leaves you completely stuck.
I hit every one of these — none of it came naturally. My picking hand tensed up the second I pushed past a comfortable tempo. No amount of "just practice more" fixed it — because the problem was never effort, it was technique and strategy I didn't understand yet.
Since then, I've spent decades decoding and perfecting the exact architecture of this style, so you don't have to spend those same years guessing.
You haven't reached your ceiling. You're just missing the precise blueprint behind that effortless, Yngwie-inspired rush of notes.
Forget waiting on natural skill — a better way has arrived. It's time to put the fury at your fingertips.
INTRODUCING
Viking Shred Guitar Suite
The Breakthrough Method for Emulating a Neoclassical Shred Guitar Icon
The definitive technical blueprint and mechanical secrets from Chris Brooks, author of 18 bestselling guitar books.
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How the Viking Shred Method Rewires Your Playing
VSGS is a linear, 23-module system designed for one thing: meaningful progress. We move from the core mechanics of picking and theory into high-level speed runs, arpeggios, and pedal tones.
Each module follows a proven three-step path:
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The Concept: Understanding the "why".
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The Vocabulary: Learning the language of shred.
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The Fluidity: Refining the micro-details required for world-class speed.
What happens when you fix the underlying mechanics?
You play without tension in either hand: Eliminate the physical roadblocks and strain holding back your picking and fretting hands.
Build authentic "Swedish style" chops: Understand the exact systems behind those iconic, blindingly fast licks.
You'll know what to practice and how: real-time tempo breakthroughs with custom backing tracks and etudes.
The Breakthrough Factor🚀 : Guided Practice You don’t just watch; you do. My Guided Practice Sessions act as a digital mentor, tempo-training you with custom backing tracks to ensure your breakthroughs happen in real-time.
Articulate with Feel: You’ll master the phrasing that defines the Viking sound—vibrato, whammy bar nuance, and blues-based "groove" licks—to ensure your playing is as expressive as it is fast.
Inside the Masterclass: Exactly What You Get Today
When you unlock the Viking Shred Guitar Suite, you are getting immediate, lifetime streaming access to a colossal library of digital assets:
📦 206 High-Definition Video Lessons – Over 25 hours of crystalline 4K video instruction detailing every mechanical pathway.
🎯 117 Guided Practice Sessions – Video and audio tempo-training loops to build muscle memory seamlessly.
🎸 263 Pages of PDF Tabs & Guitar Pro Files – Complete interactive notation and downloadable printouts for every single example in the course.
🌍 Multi-Tempo Etudes & Backing Tracks – Custom-engineered audio tools to help you take your licks from slow motion to a blinding rush of notes.
💬 Direct Expert Support & Closed Captions – Get extra help via lesson comment sections and stream easily anywhere with captions provided in 12 languages.
The Full 23-Module Blueprint
Here is the exact step-by-step roadmap you will follow to build a formidable, interconnected style:
Phase 1: Foundations & Tone
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Primer: Cover the essentials like pick grip, hand positioning, fretting, finger pressure and synchronisation, sound control and muting, scales dictionary and more.
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Viking Tone (5 lessons): Learn about the guitars, dialing in your amp and effects, and download my custom presets for Kemper and Amplitube.
Phase 2: Core Picking Hand Mechanics
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Picking Suite no. 1 - Mechanics (7 lessons): Picking mechanics, motion and escape path, individual and compound motions.
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Picking Suite no. 2 - Single String (20 lessons): Establishing tremolo picking baseline, adding notes and rhythm, ostinatos and other repetition phrases, single-string sequences and position shifts, etudes and guided practice sessions.
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Picking Suite no. 3 - Alternate Picking (12 lessons): Exploring the power of even numbers, string changing, building vocabulary, fire-breathing sequences, guided practice sessions, and implementing the Alteve System.
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Picking Suite no. 4 - Economy Picking System (30 lessons): Rest strokes and string changes, development and speed drills, expanding to longer licks, position-shifting patterns and sequences, fives and sevens sequences, how the viking creates "rushed" speed lines and time feel, guided practice sessions and etudes.
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Picking Suite no. 5 - Descending System (18 lessons): The next piece of the puzzle for odd-number descending lines, developed on two-strings then up to all six with etude and guided practice sessions.
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Picking Suite no. 6 - Loops, Sequences and Exceptions (21 lessons): Some of the most important information in the course—the missing links for Viking sequences that other courses miss or just plain get wrong! The picking lessons you've been working up to all this time will help you master the Viking's secret sequencing strategies.
Phase 3: Expression & Fluidity
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Articulation Essentials (13 lessons): Shape and express your melodic feel with vibrato, bending, vibrato and bending, trills, whammy bar phrasing, delay pedal "slap back" sequences, create "echo etudes" and volume swells with practice sessions and backing tracks.
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Legato Landslide (13 lessons): Add some muscle to your fretting hand chops with technique builders, flowing hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, ostinatos, picking combos, and guided practice sessions.
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Based in Blues: A Viking approach to creating cool, fast blues and pentatonic lines using various melodic and mechanical forms.
- Viking Tone: Learn to dial in a classic tone from scratch, or download presets for Kemper, Amplitube and Fractal syx.
Phase 4: Advanced Neoclassical Alchemy
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Presto! Pedal Tones (14 lessons): Some of the most classical sounding vocabulary in the course, with upper pedal tone, lower pedal tone, two-tone pedals, all the fingering and picking details, etudes and practice.
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Arpeggio Alchemy 1 (18 lessons): A dedicated 2-string module that covers the mechanics and form for 2-string sweeps, triad and arpeggio shapes, suspensions and inversions, etudes and practice tracks.
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Arpeggio Alchemy 2 (25 lessons): 3- and 4-string sweeping arpeggios and all the picking peculiarities, sequences and inversions that go with them. This module alone runs for over 2 hours!
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Arpeggios Alchemy 3 (15 lessons): 5-6 string arpeggios, sweeping patterns, sequences from hell, and pick variations to consider.
Phase 5: Application, Theory & Soloing
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Music Theory Opus 1 (11 lessons): The building blocks of western harmony with triad and chord construction, major and minor scales, harmonic and melodic minor, modal usage, diminished connections and how to put theory to work.
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Music Theory Opus 2 - Harmony and Motion (13 lessons): Go deep into classically inspired progressions, motion, circle of fourths, secondary dominants, modulation and substitutions, creating tension and release.
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Rhythmic Rondo (20 lessons): Building awesome riffs and rhythm parts using diatonic and harmonic minor scales, chord fragmentation, dyads, static bass note, modulations and more, with awesome 80s inspired neoclassical rock and metal backing tracks.
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The Burn Zone (15 lessons): Bonus practice sessions with cool custom backing tracks to revise major concepts covered so far.
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Soloing Concepts: Start connecting your soloing zones, scales and arpeggios and map out the fretboard using key go-to patterns.
- Soloing Studies: Put it all together in fiery solos that conjure the sounds and stylings of the solos that changed rock guitar.
Is The Viking Shred Guitar Suite Right For You?
Let's be direct. This is a highly specialized, elite roadmap built for dedicated players.
❌ This isn't for you if:
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You want "quick licks" for the weekend rather than genuine, long-term mastery.
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You prefer the chaotic "figure it out yourself" trial-and-error method.
✅ This was built specifically for you if:
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You're tired of the "voodoo": You want a teacher who can actually explain the precise mechanical movements, pick angles, and physical positioning required to play this fast—not just someone who demonstrates it and says "practice more."
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You want a unified system: You’re ready to stop collecting isolated, random patterns and start building a formidable, deeply interconnected style.
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You respect the legacy: You genuinely care how this music was really played, and you want the granular details that are completely missing from other online courses.
Done scratching the surface? The Viking Shred Guitar Suite is your clear pathway to real results.
THIS IS THE COURSE FOR ME. LET'S GO!Trusted by Thousands
Hi, I'm Chris Brooks, author of 18 chart-topping guitar books, including Neoclassical Speed Strategies, the book that helped tens of thousands of guitarists break through their technique barriers.
You might also have seen my articles in Guitar World & Guitar Techniques, where I've been a trusted columnist for expertise in technique and the Yngwie approach.
As an artist, I've recorded with Mark Boals (Trilogy album), The Vicious Head Society, Abel Sequera, Artesia Black, Vinny Appice, Erik Norlander, in addition to releasing two instrumental solo albums.
Viking Shred Guitar Suite® is my Magnum Opus - taking what helped me and delivering it you. Decades of playing and teaching experience - distilled. Hours upon hours of lessons - delivered in steps that can be absorbed at your pace.
From the building blocks of core techniques through to advanced applications, this is the stuff I wish someone had shown me decades ago.
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What is a Playing Review?
When you're breaking new ground and learning concepts you've never explored, direct feedback can be the difference between wondering and knowing you're on the right track!
It's simple: you record a video of your fretting and picking hands and submit it. I personally watch your footage, analyze your hand mechanics, picking angles, or tension, and send you a custom video response showing you exactly what to tweak to optimize your results.
The Deluxe edition includes one review. The Premium edition includes a review each month for six months.
I'm looking forward to mentoring you!
7-Day Money Back Guarantee
Don't guess if Viking Shred Guitar Suite is right for you. Take 7 full days to explore the practice systems and experience how this material builds neoclassical speed, vocabulary, and precision.
I’m proud to share that 98.8% of students stay with the course (Source: Kajabi Analytics). I want you to join our community of 2,000 players with total confidence.
If you engage with the material and decide it’s not the right fit for your goals, simply email me within 7 days for a full, no-hassle refund. I’d much rather you get your money back than hold onto a method that doesn’t serve your playing. - Chris
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