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Trent Jones Guitar Academy

  • “You have to listen to the music and absorb it. When you learn someone else’s music, you’re not copying — you’re learning the language to speak your own.” — Eric Clapton

    Get access to the tabs for my riff videos, so you can not only play them but gain the tools to inspire and improve your own writing..

    Every riff is crafted to challenge a different “muscle” in your guitar playing—whether it’s technique, rhythm, or composition. These riffs aren’t just exercises; they’re ammunition to sharpen your skills and elevate your chops.

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  • “Practice isn’t about repetition, it’s about finding new ways to challenge yourself.” — John Petrucci

    If you’ve pinpointed what’s holding you back, you’ve already won half the battle. Each course drills deep into a focused topic—but these aren’t just explanations, they are blueprints on how to apply what you learn. Tailored specifically to your style of guitar, and meant to change your playing immediately.

    Click here for courses

  • “I owe a lot of my development to the lessons I took from Joe [Satriani]. It wasn’t just technique—it was how to think about music, how to approach practice and creativity.” — Steve Vai

    The fastest and most efficient path to progress. Cut the guesswork, get real-time answers, and follow a clear, structured plan designed to move you towards your desired result. Guitar is hard, trying to solve the riddle on how to improve all by yourself, is harder.

    No more confusion. No more frustration. No more plateaus.

    No more doubt.

    Closure that you are improving.

    Click here to book your free first lesson.

About Me

Hello! I’m Trent.

Kind of an aggressive picture for an “about me” section maybe? Not sure. Anyway…

My guitar journey began about 20 years ago when I first picked up the instrument. Growing up in San Antonio, I was shaped by the classic rock and heavy metal influences that surrounded me. It was during my time while studying guitar at the University of Miami, where I pushed myself to become as versatile a player as possible. That pursuit has allowed me to play professionally with artists of all different backgrounds. These days, I reside in Nashville, working on my original project Pump Action and teaching the guitar.

I started teaching during the lockdown and quickly fell in love with it. To me, the guitar is more than just an instrument — it’s an extension of our personality. It’s a chance to express what we are feeling at any given moment. Being able to help someone feel more equipped and confident to do that through their playing? That has been awesome to say the least.

Take a look around, if you have any questions feel free to reach out. \m/

 FAQs

  • What you practice is 100x more important than how long you practice. 15 minutes a day of structured practice that targets problem areas for you will always beat 4 hours of mindless scale drills to a metronome, jamming to backing tracks, and learning random songs.

    I have had many students with busy or erratic work schedules that have to fight for their 20 minutes of evening practice time, make huge strides and be completely different players in as little as a few months. All because we have them following a plan that targets the things holding them back from their “point B.”

  • I unfortunately get this question a lot. I say unforutnately because it highlights the epidemic of self-taught players struggling to make progress left to their own devices, especiall ynow with the infinite amount of information that surrounds us. After six years of teaching and hundreds of students, my viewpoint on this has remained the same. Guitar itself just isn’t hard enough of an activity for there to be humans who “just can’t do it.” I truly believe anyone who picks up this instrument can one day progress to the point where they are confident in their playing. You just need a plan, and that plan can be hard to craft for yourself.

    Every activity that takes humans time to learn is like this, why should guitar be any different? If I wanted to drop everything right now and become a pilot, I would probably have a pretty hard time diagnosing everything I need to work on in order to be able to fly a plane.

  • The plateuas in a guitarist’s journey have almost become clichés at this point: “I’m stuck in the box.”“I play the same licks every time.”“I don’t know how to develop my ideas.” All of these issues trace back to one core problem — not being able to clearly visualize the fretboard.

    I have thought the neck the exact same way for the last 6 years and have had tremendous succes, because my system built entirely around one thing: application. No CAGED. No solfège. No overcomplicated whole/half step systems. Just a 5-step process that simplifies the neck so you can play free and be creative.

  • I teach players of all experience levels — including complete beginners. Some of my students started with me before they even owned a guitar, and our first lesson was all about picking the right one.

    The early stages are crucial, because bad habits can form quickly and often go unnoticed. Unfortunately, undoing those habits can take months, even years — often longer than it would’ve taken to build the right technique from the start. That’s why I put a strong focus on setting players up with a solid, clean foundation from day one so that they don’t compromise their journey before it even starts.