Are you just starting out on your guitar journey? This course may be perfect for you! In this first grade, you will learn all the basic skills you need to play your guitar with confidence.

Once you complete this first grade, you'll have a thorough understanding of valuable guitar techniques including the most common strumming techniques, how to use the capo, change chords confidently, and how to play the eight essential open chords, as well as being able to play lots of great classic songs!

In Grade 2, you will learn a lot more chords, including 7th Chords and Power Chords, as well as how to incorporate chord embellishments into your guitar playing.

You'll add to your strumming pattern repertoire and also have fun exploring Blues rhythm, Rock guitar techniques, Lead Guitar, and acoustic guitar fingerpicking!

By the end of this grade, you will have explored a number of differing guitar styles, have learned more classic songs, and will be playing with confidence!

In Grade 3 you are getting close to becoming a solid Intermediate guitarist!

In this course, you'll develop your rhythm playing further, add to your repertoire of guitar techniques, and learn more chords. You'll learn how to play with other guitarists, introduce melodies to your guitar playing, and transcribe songs for yourself rather than having to rely on others for the music.

You'll also learn more about how music works, which will help you unleash your musicianship and prepare you to become an Intermediate guitarist.

This course will teach you:

This is an in-depth course that is ideal fort any aspiring lead guitarist or any guitarist that wishes to move beyond the open position.

This course will teach you:

🎸 How to improvise in both major and minor keys and play solos in any key

🎸 How to improvise and how to Sound Great in any Key

🎸 How to move horizontally up and down the fretboard through several individual patterns, mechanically to begin with and then musically

🎸 The single and simple “Blues Note” that you can add to the various scales to sound more 'bluesy'

🎸 How to write a full guitar Solo!

🎸 Each of the 5 diatonic scale patterns and how to play the full major scale

🎸 To understand all 7 modes (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, & Locrian) and learn The simple way to memorize them.

🎸 How to mix major and minor pentatonic scales for a bluesy sound

Plus much, much more…

This is the first of the Intermediate grades and is a big step. Now you will start moving away from the open position by learning E Shape Barre Chords. You'll also start learning more about rhythm, take a deep dive into the world of triads, learn what chords you should be playing in each key, which is must-know information for jamming, take a look at a little more music theory, and take a really deep dive into lead guitar techniques that will enable you to play amazing guitar solos in any key over the entire fretboard.