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The Phrase Trainer: Lead Guitar Lessons: Learn Thru Looping (Udemy.com)

How to Loop, Groove and Solo Like a Pro: Electric Guitar Improvisation

Created by: Robbie Calvo

Last updated January 2021

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What you will learn

  • How to Use a Looper Pedal Without The Timing Frustrations
  • How to Create Great Rhythm Guitar Parts and Loop Them Successfully
  • How to Orchestrate and Overdub 2nd Guitar Parts Into the Looper
  • How to Play Melodic Solo Phrases Over Your Progressions
  • How to Target Chord Tones and Improvise Pro Level Solos

How it compares

Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 81% of them
  • Reviews454#43 of 184 by number of reviews
  • Length3.1 hoursshorter than 54% of them
  • Last updatedJanuary 2021earlier than 50% of them

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Course Description

Learn how to create and record perfectly timed percussion, guide tracks for each loop performance and advanced phrasing concepts for hook driven lead guitar solos and feels.

Robbie Calvo, accomplished musician and instructor, is your guide through The Phrase Trainer: How To Loop, Groove and Solo Like a Pro. Learn how to prepare, time and execute the perfect loop performances and create single-note lines and riffs from the chords and scales you already know to maximize your potential and reach what Robbie calls “Sonic Nirvana”.  You will begin with the basics of song structure, chords and measures of music, and by the end of this course you will be able to create complex and textured solos using a multitude of techniques at once.

Here is what you will get inside this course:

3 hours on-demand video


7 downloadable resources


Full lifetime access


Access on mobile and TV


Certificate of completion


Get your questions answered by Robbie and other students inside the course!



No prior knowledge or skill is required to take this course. Just have a guitar and be ready to learn and practice! You can't find this course anywhere else on the internet. Buy today and begin learning from a great instructor at your own pace!

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Instructor Details

Robbie Calvo

Robbie Calvo is a master guitar educator with 32 published teaching programs to date. Robbie is a G.I.T. Hollywood graduate and currently represents Yamaha guitars as a trade show and events clinician. Robbie is also a Line 6 artist and performs over 200 live shows a year as a solo artist.

Robbie continues to film and record guitar educational programs with the worlds leading guitar companies and records and produces recording sessions from his home studio and from world class studios in Nashville,TN.

Check out Robbie's Youtube channel for some of the latest product demos and reviews and read his monthly blog / vlog for Yamaha guitars for the latest tips and advice on becoming the player you always wanted to be.

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Reviews

4.8

454 ratings on Udemy

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By Yvon Syx on 11/10/2025

This is a brilliant series of lessons to learn how to use a looper pedal and much more. Robbie shows us how you can make music in a tasteful way, provided that important facets are taken into account. The structure of the lessons is very understandable, the whole process shows the path you can follow to obtain a finished musical composition and have a lot of fun with it. Thank you Robbie for sharing this with us!

By Scott Cooper on 11/24/2023

Robbie Calvo is clearly an experienced pro- this course is well designed- timed and cleanly shot- it's methodical, thorough and he has a sense of humor as well. I have learned a ton not only about looping but about chord tones and how to follow them to create professional sounding, musical phrases. This is the best Udemy course I have taken and I've had some really good ones so far. Wish I would have taken this course earlier in my guitar journey! Scott C

By Tom Dicaprio on 1/16/2021

Just what I’ve been looking for ! I know my scales but trying to play a lead line was sounding so sterile. Robbies not only a great player but a great teacher. I’m now finally figuring out how to improvise over a backing track and have it sound melodic ! Thanks so much Robbie !!

By Eduardo Dela Rosa on 1/12/2021

One of the best tutorials I’ve seen in guitar looping. Not only would you learn about how you’d use looper proficiently but you’d also learn professional techniques in lead playing with layered overdubs. The lessons covered in this tutorial were good enough to motivate me to explore and improvise for my playing using looper. It’s really an excellent piece of information and would highly recommend to everyone interested in learning with loopers. Looking forward to seeing more of this kind from Robbie and Erich.

By Praveen Kollery on 12/23/2020

Good course to start working with Looper. Videos are well made and to the point. No loose talking. The demos are more at intermediate to advanced level. But the concepts being explained are understandable to beginners as well. Some tabs of what is getting played would help beginners.

By Patrick Pellacani on 12/4/2020

Robbie Calvo is a fantastic teacher! The course is all about building musical phrases. It has a little bit about pentatonic scales, chord tone targeting, and embellishments. But the real meat of this course is about how to put these together in a measure. he shows you different parts of the measure so it doesn't sound too crowded. If you know your scales and fundamentals, this course is about musicianship. Highly recommend!

By Harvey Vai on 11/1/2020

I really didn't know much about looping, etc, but my GTX100 Mustang Amp Combo has a looper footswitch, I have other questions, too but I don't have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, only YouTube and I think I'll contact you at your website. It's a start for me and I'm glad Erich Andreas email me about this lesson came at the right time. Thxz again!!

By Cleber Roberto Paes da Rocha on 6/28/2020

One of the best instructors on the internet. Already knew his work from truefire courses, this one is also very good, although a bit shorter and less deep than other courses by Robbie Calvo. Excellent if you want to start looping correclty. I was having some hard time on hitting the right tempo and defining the bars correctly. This course corrected this for me.

By Al Padgett on 6/21/2020

Started off a little simple (expected), but progressed very nicely to a more challenging level. The additional playing and riff tips are great! I am very glad to have taken this course. I would have figured out a lot of it on my own BUT it is really great to have someone that has already done the work, share it. Saves me from a lot of confusion! Thank you Robie.

By Natalie Chalmers on 6/21/2020

The information was useful and understandable. The only problem I had was the video was the size of my thumb print. No matter what I tried. I could not get it to fill the screen, therefore I could not see his hands.

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