Beginning Guitarist
Welcome to the Beginning Guitarist. Here are the lessons:
- Beginner Course – Level 1
- Play With Me! – Smoke on the Water Intro
- Introduction by Will
- Introduction by Mark
- Holding the Guitar
- Holding the Pick
- Choosing a Pick
- Open Strings
- Tuning the Guitar
- Acoustic vs Electric
- Parts of the Guitar
- What Specific Guitar Should I Buy?
- Sore Fingers and Hands?
- Your First Chord – E Major
- Proper Technique with Playing Chords
- Your Second Chord – Am
- Open Em Chord
- Practice Routine
- Changing Chords – Am to C
- Intro to Strumming
- Play With Me! E to Am
- Open Chords – G, C and D with Strumming Pattern #1
- Play With Me! – About a Girl Intro
- Focus on Your Trouble Spots
- Open Chords A, E and D with Strumming Pattern 2
- Play With Me! – Horse With No Name Intro
- Strumming Chords – Strumming Pattern #3
- Progress Check!
- C add9 Chord
- Play With Me! – Good Riddance Intro
- Play With Me! – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
- The Dreaded F Chord
- Easy Beginner Songs
- Cut Those Fingernails!
- A7 Chord
- Beginner Course – Level 2
- Play With Me! – Back in Black Intro
- Embellishing Chords with Hammer Ons, Sus Chords
- Know Your Intervals
- Intro to Bar Chords
- Major Bar Chords – 6th String Root
- Minor Bar Chords – 6th String Root
- Major Bar Chords – 5th String Root
- Minor Bar Chords – 5th String Root
- The Left Hand – Fretting Notes
- Alternate Picking
- How Chords Work
- Learning the Notes on the Fretboard
- Open D sus2/sus4 chords
- A sus2/sus4 Chord
- E sus 4
- The Major Scale
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course you should understand:
- how to hold the guitar
- how to hold the pick and pick the strings
- the parts of the guitar
- choosing acoustic or electric
- some criteria when choosing to buy a guitar
- the open strings of the guitar and their note names
- how to tune your guitar
- how to building speed with a metronome
- open chords
- sus Chords
- Dominant 7th chords
- switching between chords
- strumming chords
- how to use the left hand to fret notes and pick the notes
- how to play some challenging chromatic exercises
This course is taught by me, Will Kriski along with my good friend and excellent teacher Mark Donaghy who has vast experience teaching beginners and myself of course!
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