Guitar Basics
1. Guitar anatomy, tuning, etc.
2. What it takes to play guitar
3. Our process and tools
Free
Intro to Guitar Styles
1. Rock/Blues/Folk, Americana/Bluegrass, Latin, Fingerstyle, Jazz
2. Demonstration of each style
3. You can focus on one style or mix and match
Free
Beginner Courses
Easy Rock Riffs
1. Sunshine of Your Love
2. Smoke On The Water
3. 12 Bar Blues
$35
Intro to Americana
1. Boom-chick strumming
2. Shady Grove or This Land Is Your Land
3. Wagon Wheel or …
$35
Fingerstyle Guitar
1. Landslide
2. Dust in The Wind
3.
$35
Spanish & Latin Guitar
1. Spanish Ballad
2. Malagueña
3.
$35
More Beginner Courses
Intro to Guitar Solos
1. Open Scales
2. Movable scales
3. Adding Flavor
$35
Intro to Guitar Chords
1. What is a chord?
2. What is a key?
3. Types of chords
$35
How to Practice
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3.
$35
Basic Guitar Technique
1. Fingerpicking or using a Pick
2. Strumming Techniques
3. Left Hand Technique
$35
First draft of course ideas below. Used as a starting point for the 2nd draft above.
Course Ideas:
- Introduction to the Guitar
- Musical Styles
- Playing Melodies & Chords with a Pick
- Playing Melodies & Chords with your Fingers
- Folk Fingerstyle picking
- Beginner courses in different styles:
- Spanish Guitar for Beginners: Spanish Ballad, Malaguena, another easy tune
- Rock Riffs for Beginners: Sunshine Of Your Love, Smoke On The Water, Thunderstruck
- Fingerpicking for Beginners: Landslide, 2 more easy fingerpicking tunes
- Americana Guitar for Beginners: choose 3 easy boom-chick strumming songs
- Intro to Bluegrass Guitar: June Apple, Shady Grove, boom chick strumming
- Music Theory Courses:
- Intro to Guitar Solos: use 2 scales to solo in any key.
- Guitar Solos Level 2: Adding Rhythms
- Guitar Solos Level 3: Adding Flavor
- Intro to Chord Theory: Every key contains 3 major chords and 3 minor chords.
- Chord Theory Level 2: Finding all 6 chords on the guitar.
- Chord Theory Level 3: Case Studies
- Intro to Rhythm: Rhythm begins with a beat, how to read and write rhythms
- More Advanced Courses:
- Intermediate/Advanced Spanish Guitar: improvisation, more rhythms, advanced technique
- Intermediate/Advance Rock Guitar: Learning classic solos, imitating styles, advanced techniques.
- Intermediate/Advanced Bluegrass Guitar: practicing classic bluegrass tunes with attention to picking technique.
- Jazz Improvisation: arpeggios, shifting keys, other scales
- Rhythm Studies and Concepts: odd meters, using rhythm patterns in melodies & improvisation
- Flamenco Guitar: techniques, styles, 3 intro pieces
- Writing Your Own Music: identifying variables, stylistic frameworks, composition tools.
