Medicine Music Academy

Learn Guitar With Medicine Songs

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How It Works?

Step-By-Step Practices

The key to mastering fingerpicking & strumming is building the coordination one step at a time.

Each song is broken into short incremental practice steps - making it easy to master the song in a period of 2-4 weeks.

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Inspired Learning

The Medicine Music Academy was created as an interactive program in 2024, with more than 80 participants

In addition to the learning materials - you'll have access to practice videos, questions and musical performances of the original participants.

Watch how Shai guides his students and suggest creative practice modifications to tackle the most common technical challenges.

Songs You Love

Using songs that speak to your heart makes the process of learning the guitar so much more fun and motivating!

In addition to learning the songs, by following the practices you will learn the fundamentals of fingerpicking & strumming techniques.

Share Your Success

The Medicine Music Academy Video App is still active!

You can watch inspiring videos from other participants, and share your own success with the whole Medicine Music Academy Community.

The video app offers a safe, encouraging space to express your creativity and share your music with like-minded community.

Bonus content

The app includes 12 live masterclasses which were hosted by Shai throughout 2024, with various guest artists.

In each Masterclass you can see a musical demonstration of one of the songs, questions from participants and conversations about music.

1:1 Coaching (Optional)

Work with Shai directly to help in focusing and maximising the effectiveness of your practice time.

1:1 Coaching Session includes:

- Evaluation of your current skill level

- Clarifying your musical goals

- Making a clear, realistic commitment to yourself

- Helping you decide which of the courses is the most effective for you

- Creating an effective, simple practice routine.

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Let's Play!

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Videos posted in the video learning platform

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580+

Minutes of video guidance and feedback from Shai

Songs broken down into layered, incremental steps

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Beginner Bundle - 3 Mini Courses
49€
Start Your Guitar Journey
- 🎼 Fingerpicking & Strumming 🎼
- - En El Cielo (Puentes)
- - Like The River (Ayla Schafer)
- - Gajumaru (Yaima)
Intermediate Bundle - 10 Mini Courses
149€
Expand & Play in Harmony
- 🎼 Fingerpicking & Strumming 🎼
- - En El Cielo (Puentes)
- - Like The River (Ayla Schafer)
- - Gajumaru (Yaima)
- - Te Nande (Curawaka)
- - Astral Dawn (Adrian Freedman)
- - Be Beautiful (Misk'i Takiy)
- 🎼 Scales & Improvisation 🎼
- - Yanapuma (Shimshai) | Improvisation Techniques
- - Cura (Rainer) | Improvisation Techniques
- - Gajumaru (Yaima) | Improvisation Techniques
- - Te Nande (Curawaka) | Improvisation Techniques
Best Value!
The Complete Catalog - 18 Mini Courses
195€
The Ultimate Package | All Included
- 🎼 Fingerpicking & Strumming 🎼
- - 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)
- - Purnamadah (Shantala)
- - Mamae Jurema (Bastiaan Kamavena)
- 🎼 Scales & Improvisation 🎼
- - Yanapuma (Shimshai) | Improvisation Techniques
- - Cura (Rainer) | Improvisation Techniques
- - Gajumaru (Yaima) | Improvisation Techniques
- - Te Nande (Curawaka) | Improvisation Techniques
- - Tzen Tze Re Rei (Lola Cosmica) | Improvisation Techniques
- 🎼 Bonus: "Fingerstyle Techniques" Foundations Course 🎼

Song list

The Medicine Music Academy contains 12 medicine songs.

Each song is broken down into a "mini course" with clear, step by step practices covering the different fingerpicking & strumming patterns of the song.

Songs available in the catalog:

🎼 Noku Mana (Curawaka)

🎼 En El Cielo (Puentes)

🎼 Purnamadah (Shantala)

🎼 Astral Dawn (Adrian Freedman)

🎼 Be Beautiful (Misk'i Takiy)

🎼 Like The River (Ayla Schafer)

🎼 Mamae Jurema (Bastiaan Kamãvena)

🎼 Gajumaru (Yaima)

🎼 Te Nande (Curawaka)

🎼 Tzen tzen Rei (Loli Cosmica)

🎼 Yapanuma (Shimshai)

🎼 Cura (Rainer Scheurenbrand)

🎼 Pachamama (Astral Flowers)

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FAQ

- How long it takes to complete a song? - The mini-courses are designed to take 2-4 weeks to complete the whole song.

- How much time should I practice? - The recommendation is 20-30 minutes a day of practice, following the practice steps as instructed.

- Will I get the tabs & chords? - Yes! Each song includes also tabs, chord diagrams and lyrics / chords sheet that you can download and print.

- Can I post my practice videos for feedback? - Shai is currently offering interactive group coaching only for "Master The Fretboard" program participants. Therefore - it is not possible to post practice videos for feedback anymore. You can, however, watch, comment and share your own musical videos on the app with the other academy members!

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