Requirements
- This guitar course is for everyone - including complete beginners.
- You only need a guitar - any kind of guitar with six strings.
- We will start at the very beginning.
Description
What Students are saying:
⦁ 5 stars, "Very easy to understand and I would say it’s the best course I have ever come across, very systematic, thanks." - Khalid S.
⦁ 5 stars, "This is an excellent step-by-step guide and lots of fun. " - Bobbie S.
⦁ 5 stars, "Enthusiastic, extremely knowledgeable approach! I've been playing for 50 years, 20 of those professionally and I'm starting at the beginning." - William M.
⦁ 5 stars, "After the first few lessons, I know this is a keeper. Very in depth and gives a clear pathway to each goal." - Derek S.
⦁ 5 stars, "Very easy to understand." - Ben
*UPDATE - New section, Bonus Lessons, has been added to the end of the course. This section features continuing education guitar lessons & music theory videos including PDFs.
Welcome to Guitar Lessons for the Curious Guitarist! This course is a comprehensive guitar & music theory guide for all guitar students - beginner through advanced. These guitar lessons start from scratch. Students do not need any prior knowledge of guitar or music.
Students can use any guitar they have - electric, acoustic, or classical. This course is all about guitar playing & guitar theory.
This course is laid out in 9 sections with guitar lessons that each build on the previous lesson. The sections are: GUITAR BASICS, BEGINNER LEVEL, NOVICE LEVEL, INTERMEDIATE LEVEL, ADVANCED LEVEL, EXPERT LEVEL, WORLD CLASS LEVEL, JAM ALONG, and BONUS LESSONS.
Throughout this course, we will focus heavily on these fundamentals:
⦁ Chords - Including open & barre chords in multiple positions, relative (scale chords), extended, altered, construction, naming, and more.
⦁ Rhythm - Including reading, writing, counting, strumming, picking, tapping, timing, and all things rhythm.
⦁ Arpeggios - From basic major & minor to extended & altered, some include multiple redundant positions for better mastery, you will arpeggiate every chord.
⦁ Scales & Modes - Including major & minor pentatonics, major & minor scales, all 7 relative modes, full-fretboard soloing, and other exotic scales.
⦁ Other - Including techniques like hammer ons, pulloffs, slides, bends, fret-tapping, natural & artificial harmonics, reading standard music notation, blues guitar, dyads, ear training, and more!
The JAM ALONG section includes 10 videos, each with a PDF, of live-recorded jam along guitar loops for you to practice soloing (improvising) while the background guitar chords are playing. The keys and scales are clearly marked & charted out on the whiteboard (and the PDF attachments) so you'll know exactly what to play! Many of your guitar studies are about creating solos in the moment. These jam along videos allow you the freedom to practice soloing on your guitar with the guidance of your instructor.
Every video in this course has a PDF attachment that you should download (and print) to use as an additional guitar lesson resource while studying with these videos. The PDFs are the tabs, rhythms, chords, scales, and text lessons. There is a huge value in these PDFs! Many students will practice their guitar using these PDFs when offline or jamming with friends. You will never have to rely on just the video lessons when you've got all these PDFs printed or saved to your device.
Many guitar students will have various questions throughout the learning process. The Q&A board (Questions & Answers) in this course is a great way to connect with your guitar teacher (Dan) to ask for additional help. You are encouraged to use this extra resource whenever you need it - all guitar questions are welcome!
Your guitar teacher, Dan, has been teaching guitar students for over 25 years. He is familiar with all of the pitfalls, issues, questions, and confusions that you are likely to have while learning this material. These lessons are the result of a lifetime of experience working with people just like you!
This course explains the material in-depth and in the correct sequence for it to make sense to you. Learning music is a cumulative experience – it must be taught in the correct order and in good detail. It should be easy for you to learn. It should be fun!
This is an exciting moment in your guitar journey. Let's begin!
Who is the target audience?
- Anyone who wants to learn to play the guitar.
- Complete guitar beginners!
- Good guitar players who have fallen into a rut.
- Good guitar players who can't connect the dots.
- Frustrated or confused guitar students - this will make everything clear!
