Acoustic Guitar Lessons For Beginners
Offered By: Skillshare
Course Description
Overview
This is the perfect place to start for beginner guitar players! Take all the guess work out of how and what to practice. This program comes with specially designed practice videos for each lesson.
Learn To Play The Guitar Quickly And Easily
-Learn the basics of how music works with fun easy to understand animated videos.
-Use a proven system to take all the guess work out of what to practice.
-Gain the confidence to play your guitar with others.
-Enjoy learning at a pace that is right for you.
Start Playing And Creating Music To Express Your Musical Self
You will learn everything you need to know about the guitar, from how to hold it and make your first sound, to how to play the guitar in a band! This course also focuses on how to express yourself through music by teaching beginner improvisation (soloing). The goal of The Music Coach Guitar Program is for you to fully express who you are through the instrument.
Content and Overview
I designed this program to help you begin your musical journey on the guitar in the most efficient and fun way. This program is suitable for anyone who has a desire to play and has a working guitar. There are over 2.5 hours of video lessons and practice videos.
The layout of the course uses a simple format:
-1 lesson video that explains a new concept/technique,
-1 practice video that has voice overs and graphics to help you play along with the teacher on the screen in "real time".
There are twelve sets of lessons and practice videos that help you learn melody, rhythm, harmony, and improvising. This program also contains a "Jam Room" with a virtual band that you can play along with at different speeds. As an added bonus there are also five music theory made easy animated videos that explain the basic building blocks of music.
At the end of this course you will have the confidence to play the guitar both on your own and with others in different musical situations.
Syllabus
- Acoustic Guitar Lessons For Beginners
- 4 Essential Elements of Music
- Notes, and the musical alphabet
- Melody
- Harmony
- Rhythm
- Guitar Setup and buyers
- Learn how to hold the guitar and the names of all the strings
- Guitar Week 1 Practice HD
- Learn the four most common chords (G, D, E minor, C)
- Guitar Week 2 Practice HD
- Learn how to switch between the chords of the song
- Guitar Week 3 Practice HD
- Learn how to play the chord structure of the A section of the song
- Guitar Week 4 Practice HD
- Learn how to play the chord structure of the B section of the song
- Guitar Week 5 Practice HD
- Learn how to alternate up and down strumming
- Guitar Week 6 Lesson HD 1
- Guitar Week 6 Practice HD
- Learn how to play the G major scale
- Guitar Week 7 Practice HD
- Learn how to play the G major scale on the G string
- Guitar Week 8 Practice HD
- Learn how to play the A section melody
- Guitar Week 9 Practice HD
- Learn how to play the B section melody
- Guitar Week 10 Practice HD
- Learn how to connect both melodies and chord sections together
- Guitar Week 11 Practice HD
- Learn how to take a guitar solo
- Guitar Week 12 Practice HD
- Jam Room 60bpm
- Jam Room 80bpm
- Jam Room 100bpm
- Welcome to the Music Coach Duo Series
- Guitar Piano 1
- Guitar Piano 2
- Guitar Piano 3
- 7 key steps to starting a band
- General gear guide
- How to create a furtile musical home
- How to create a sucessfull practice routine
Taught by
Todd Porter
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