Dan Sugarman | Your Music Mentor & Guitar Coach

🫵 Your creative journey is about to get a lot easier, more fun, and you’ll finally get the results you were promised from other online education platforms 📺 @JoinSlipstream is a real, heartfelt mentorship program where I care deeply about you and your results. I’m quite literally taking you under my wing and sharing everything I know with you about songwriting. 👉 4 consecutive Saturdays - starting July 26th 🗓️ Tickets are available now. You do not want to miss this because you were afraid to invest in yourself. Take the leap. Let Slipstream be the wind beneath your wings 🦅 ⚔️Join the rebellion. Stop letting others dictate your narrative, pick up the pen and finally write the next chapter of your own life… we’ll do it together 🖊️ It all begins at the link in my bio → Are you in?

🐦‍🔥SLIPSTREAM IS ALIVE! The first @JoinSlipstream [Sessions] are near... “How to Write a Song like Ice Nine Kills” | Pre-order tickets coming Summer 2025 🚀 🔸 Don’t miss the 4-Day live-streamed group [Sessions] with me (@dansugarman ) 🔸 Join the Waitlist to win the prize of a lifetime, including access to all 4 days of learning! 🔹 4 Days of Pure Creation | Riff inception ➡️ Fully polished banger 🔹 100% Live & Interactive | Watch it come to life, jump on-screen, fire off your questions, and get potent answers 🔹 Unfiltered | My exact workflow for creating, in real-time 🔐 HOW TO WIN THE RECORDING KIT: 1️⃣ Head to JoinSlipstream.com, tap Join The Waitlist + enter your info 2️⃣ Follow the steps on the next page and be on the lookout for an email in your inbox 3️⃣ Knock out those steps in under 5-minutes, and you’re locked in and entered to win the Slipstream Recording Kit: ♦️ @KieselGuitars Murder Axe | Bateman 6-string (owned and played on by me) ♦️ @SweetwaterSound provided Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface, Audio-Technica headphones, Mic Stand + Isolation Shield ♦️ @RoswellProAudio K87mini Condenser Mic ♦️ @HappyCableCompany GTR+XLR 20ft Bateman Cable (custom black spatter on a white cable) ♦️ @NeuralDSP Archetype: license of choice ♦️ @SubmissionAudio virtual bass plugins (3 licenses of choice) ♦️ @EastWestSounds ComposerCloud+ Annual subscription to 70+ libraries and 42,000 instruments ♦️ @GuitarPro_Official license to tab all of your music so you never forget a note ever again In a few words — your studio and creative process, reborn 🐦‍🔥 Let us be the wind beneath your wings. 🕛 The clock is ticking... Head to the link, Join the waitlist, Check your email, Follow the steps, and let’s build a monster together 💀

🚨 This isn’t another online class. This isn’t more content to scroll past and forget. This is your lifeline - and tickets are available now 🎟️ If you’ve been drowning in recycled advice… overwhelmed, under-inspired, and still wondering why nothing’s clicking—Slipstream is your way up and out. ✋ I built this for you—because I was you. I was sick of pre-recorded lessons with no real answers… stuck in creative limbo, lost, dying to ask a question but yelling at a screen instead. So I flipped the script. 🐦‍🔥 This is me, live, creating a full @iceninekills style song from scratch… Unfiltered, start to finish. You’ll see exactly how I make music that’s reached millions—and you’re not just watching… you’re in the studio with me. 🎛️ Live-streamed creation 🧠 Real-time Q&A 🔧 Hands-on tools 🎁 Early Bird Bonuses → Hands of a Killer Tab Book Trilogy – Left hand, right hand, two-hand sync = weaponized skills. → The Haunted Sessions Template – Plug-n-play production workflow for Logic, Pro Tools, Reaper, Cubase = rapid workflow This isn’t a masterclass. This isn’t “Tips & Tricks with Dan.” This is the moment you finally stop spinning your wheels and start creating with clarity, confidence, and conviction. Are you in? 🎟️ Limited seats. Get your ticket now. Be a part of the very first Slipstream [Sessions] | “How to Write a Song Like Ice Nine Kills” - join the rebellion. Let’s write something unforgettable together. 🔗 @JoinSlipstream [dot com] and finally Find Your Flock 🐦🦉🐦‍⬛🦅🐦‍🔥

Wonder what happens though, when all of the animals smell the liar living with them? New @blindlightband track I’m calling “Stepping Stone” is coming together. It’s been hard to articulate this feeling I’ve had for so many years, but this song is hitting the mark and is clearly the medicine I needed 🐍 What do you feel from this one?

Does anybody else spontaneously invent nicknames for their animal? Or…or is it just me? Some of these are gold, and not a single one survived past this day 🤣 Sorry @OpusThePup

Zoolander inspired - which pic is the one? Photo taken at The Aztec Theater in San Antonio in the year 1873 ☠️

Random Facts ✔️ Did you know my signature @happycablecompany (The Bloodline Cable) was not only the world’s first boutique blood spatter guitar cable - but is also available in 3 different color variations, and configurations? You can choose your length, right angle or straight angle jack (all with a silent neutrik jack to remove pop noise when plugging/unplugging) and we also now offer them as XLR cables for mics, as well as patch cables for your pedalboard 🩸 Get yours in OG (red on white), Horrorwood (red on black), or Bateman (black on white)… soon to offer more colors 🤐 These are the legitimately the highest quality cables on the market, and are better than anything you’d get from a Guitar Center or store like it. Mogami, Monster cables… all failed when I did side by sides with The Bloodline. Go get you one to see for yourself → bloodlinecable dot com 🤌

The creation bug hit me hard this month 🦠 What vibes are you getting from this one? I wrote another @blindlightband song last night about the bittersweet beauty of choosing to love even though it inevitably means loss. About how we would do anything to have even just a bad day with the person we lost, just to be near them. Music is medicine… I’m calling this one “Wither & Bloom” 🥀 Improvising a heartfelt solo based on simplicity and feel was as cathartic as it gets. Tapping deeply into my roots here. It’s fun to let loose on absolute restraint. Say more with less. Challenge accepted 🏁

Hope you had an amazing Mother’s Day yesterday 🫶 I just celebrated the 10th without my mom, and I can honestly tell you that time truly is our friend… Something I once thought was a lie became my reality, as this was the first year I can say I actually felt like I was celebrating her rather than mourning her. I miss her deeply, and remember the way she made me and anyone she was around feel about themselves. Laughter. Lots and lots of laughter. She was and still is the best Mom ever, right up there with yours 🤌 If you lost your mom, or anyone for that matter - this song is for you, from them. I wrote this song as an open letter from me to her - saying all the things I never got to say. And this chorus is her response back to me. The catharsis of music is unreal and incredibly profound when you allow yourself to tap in and be tapped into. Yesterday I started writing another song for her, and I can already feel the power of it pulling me forward. As I write this, I’m chomping at the bit to get back into my studio to work on it. The lyric hit me last night as I was falling asleep - I jumped out of bed and wrote it down, and woke up with the melody stuck in my mind. I don’t know when I’ll feel ready to share this project (blindlight) with you, if ever - but I can say with certainty that it’s the most authentically me music I’ve ever made. Vulnerability is a word that doesn’t even do Justice to what it feels like to pen these lyrics and sing for the first time… But fear is the mind killer - and I know at least one person on earth will get someone positive out of this music if I face my fears and actually give it the attention it deserves. One day… maybe one day soon 🤔

Who’s your favorite early-mid 2000’s metalcore/deathcore band? 👇 @ them down below • photos by @bemiscreative // @alexanderbemis

On this day 3 years ago, my life changed in the best way possible. 3 years today without cancer, and just as many years of seeing literally everything with brand new eyes. This is a lot of vulnerable footage and scary stuff to share, so bare with me 🫶 Truth be told - I don’t care how corny this sounds, but facing death forced me to realize what really matters and what doesn’t. Authenticity is what matters. What I’ve come to learn is that I was put here to be a beacon of light in a dark place. I’m inspired to inspire others to inspire others. That’s why I do what I do. I’m alive to live. And life is so much better without a fuggin’ tumor collapsing my windpipe… who knew? If there’s one thing I can leave you with, it’s to share all of yourself with those who love you, and love all of yourself no matter what. Show up. Speak up. Be brave. Be bold. Fight for yourself like your life depends on it - because it does. Choose to do hard things willingly, so that hard things don’t choose you unwillingly. Train. Grow. Get better, always. When sh*t hits the fan, you’ll know what to do. Laugh. Because potty humor rules, and at least you have a fan. Thank you for supporting me through all of this, and on my journey to my wellness and well being. It hasn’t been easy, but no good things in life are. I have so much more life to live, and so much more to give. And I want to share it, all of it - with you 🫀 Thank you to my amazing girlfriend @chelseanbraden & my incredible doctors for fixing me up better than ever. Lastly - if something feels weird… go see a doctor! It’s probably nothing, but if it is, know that you’re brave enough to face it, and know that you are already healed before your journey even begins. You are amazing, and I love you. P.s. I apparently woke up in the middle of surgery and started pulling tubes and needles out and throwing doctors off of me. A scene straight out of a movie. We’re stronger and more badass than we think, even if it’s only in

Change your strings today unless you want to end up like me 🪓 Bound to a table like a sandwich and abused…. I still never fully figured out how @themurderaxe got me fully undressed and seran wrapped to my coffee table Dexter style. I guess I deserved it though… I did let his battery die 🪫 …Then he drained mine 🪦