Fret Success, Calgary. Since 2017.
Play better.
Sound better.
Free lessons and the Academy.
The Fret Success Guitar Show and gear reviews on YouTube.
Clinics in Calgary. And the courses we are building now.
Run by Dan Clayton and Matty McKay, two working players who would rather show you than tell you.
- 2017teaching guitar online since
- 230+videos on the channel
- Two hostsDan and Matty
- Calgaryclinics with the Guitar Collective
- FSX 2028Canada’s Guitar Show and Expo
The Fret Success Guitar Show.
Long conversations with the people who build, sell and play the gear, and honest reviews of what they make. Builders, brands, touring players, and what we actually think.
Start here: the secret to great timing on guitar.
- Ariel PosenReasons why
- Jeremy DeBardi, Steel BeansComedy as a weapon, mowing lawns as fuel
- Jason LollarLollar Pickups, the full episode
- Scott Paul, Taylor GuitarsThe sustainability problem every builder is quiet about
- Sarah Yule, Orange AmpsIs your amp a microwave meal?
- Reed ShimozawaThe Les Paul conversion that was never about the guitar
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Learn. Start free, go as deep as you like.
Free lessons
Techniques, scales and the fretboard, backing tracks to play over. No sign-up, no catch.
The Academy
A free account with the structured stuff: your first chords and scales, the parts of the guitar, tuning, chord corner and the lick library.
Courses, in the works
Timing and rhythm first: a Timing Starter Pack, then Mastering Rhythm Guitar, taught by both of us. Country and Americana lead with Matty after that.
Dan and Matty.
Dan Clayton
Started Fret Success in 2017. Rhythm, timing and pocket player, singer, songwriter, and the one asking the questions on the show. Runs the cameras, the edits and the words.
Matty McKay
Working professional musician and producer. Pedal steel and country and Americana lead, studio and live sound. Co-hosts the show and teaches the parts most lessons skip.
Calgary Guitar Collective
The live nights in Calgary are the Collective’s: a guest player every six weeks, performances and a room full of guitar people. We teach the clinics. And in May 2028, Fret Success brings FSX, Canada’s Guitar Show and Expo.
FSX 2028. Canada’s Guitar Show and Expo.
Calgary, May 2028. Eighty exhibitors on one floor, keynote players, clinics all weekend and two nights of live music. Dates to be confirmed; the list hears first.
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