Focusing on developing great technique & learning movable chord and scale shapes to take your playing to the next level
These guitar lessons are going to take you from beginner to intermediate with a focus on developing great technique and a solid understanding on how to apply what you’ve learned from our Volume 1 course so that you can play and write songs.
What you’ll learn
- You will learn to play movable chord and scale shapes, which are the keys to make playing guitar much easier.
- You will learn techniques and skills for playing guitar solos and guitar licks.
- Have a solid understand of key signatures, how they work and why they are so important to learn.
- We will teach you how to use a metronome, which will allow you to learn and play much, much quicker!.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 11 lectures • 1hr 27min.
Requirements
These guitar lessons are going to take you from beginner to intermediate with a focus on developing great technique and a solid understanding on how to apply what you’ve learned from our Volume 1 course so that you can play and write songs.
One of the biggest benefits of guitar over other instruments is that there are many moveable shapes and patterns. Learn them once and you’ll be able to use them all over the place. The Bar Chords and Major/Minor Scales are great examples of this.
There are also many playing techniques and tricks that are essential to rock playing that this series will show you how to do.
Fire up your amp, roll back your sleeves and let’s get started!
Here are the lessons in this course:
- Lesson 1 – Your First Solo Lick – We take you step by step how to play your first guitar lick
- Lesson 2 – String Bending & Sliding – Techniques to make you sound like a polished player
- Lesson 3 – Major & Minor Bar Chords – These will unlock the ability for you to play thousands of chord progressions while only needing to learn a few shapes
- Lesson 4 – Palm Muting – A key technique to learn for any hard rock tune
- Lesson 5 – Pump/Left Hand Muting – Used in Funk, Rock and lots of other styles
- Lesson 6 – Hammer-Ons & Pull-Offs – Techniques used in soloing and lead playing to help you play faster and more expressing
- Lesson 7 – Major & Minor Scales – A crucial step to unlock the whole fretboard when soloing and playing lead
- Lesson 8 – Understanding Key Signatures Part 1 – The most important music theory concept broken down to the most basic level
- Lesson 9 – Understanding Key Signatures Part 2 – Building on part 1, this lesson will help tie everything together so you have a solid understanding of what it means to play in a specific key signature
- Lesson 10 – How To Use A Metronome – The most important practice tool! Learning to use it will improve your playing faster than anything else