By Dan Dresnok | in Online Courses
This is a complete, step-by-step, and fun course to turn you into a confident and creative songwriter on your guitar. It starts at the very beginning, assuming that you don't know anything about songwriting, and teaches you how to arrange a song, choose chord changes for each part, create melodies to go with the chords (for singing or soloing), make your own rhythms, timing, & strum patterns, and add your own creative mark to your songs.
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By Patrick O'Malley | in Online Courses
Learning fingerstyle is one of the most rewarding experiences for a guitarist. Once you have mastered some of the basics, the question is how to take it to the next level - in the shortest time possible. This course helps the intermediate fingerpicker to grow as a guitarist and as a musician. It breaks down how to get to the next level of being a fingerpicking musician - developing such a sense of mastery that listeners think they are listening to three guitarists when you play!
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By Patrick O'Malley | in Online Courses
In this course, you will be taught how to play the guitar on a step-by-step basis. Also, you will learn the most common guitar chords in a fingerpicking style and understand how to break down fingerpicking patterns into the bass/thumb and the melody/fingers. Additionally, you will be taught how to practice building parts, reading tablature, and play alongside a metronome. You will discover a formula on how to compose your own fingerpicking pattern. At the end of the lesson, you will be able to play in Travis picking and clawhammer styles.
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By Dan Dresnok | in Online Courses
This is an easy, fun beginner guitar lessons course that'll get you up-to-speed on your guitar quickly without skipping any important steps. It assumes that you don't know anything about guitar playing. By the end of this course, you'll be reading tab, playing open chords, playing barre chords all over the guitar, naming notes on every fret, soloing over songs, and strumming with different patterns for each song. These lessons are cumulative (each lesson builds on the previous lesson). Many of the lesson videos have PDF attachments in the additional resources tab. These are the text guitar lessons to use while watching the videos. You can download, save, and print these.
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By Dan Dresnok | in Online Courses
Blues guitar is easy to learn and has endless possibilities for chords and soloing - even though most blues are only 3 chords. This complete guitar course will quickly and easily have you playing real blues guitar. It starts at the very beginning levels of blues to learn about the chords and structure of major Delta-style blues. You'll learn about the rhythm and strumming of the swing (shuffle) feel to make your chords sound authentic. You'll learn the basic blues terms that all musicians speak to each other, as well as turnaround riffs and ways to embellish your chords. You'll also learn how to properly solo over various major & minor blues progressions & songs so you'll always feel confident in soloing over the blues in any key, including minor keys!
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By Dan Dresnok | in Online Courses
This is an easy and fun beginner guitar course to turn you into a confident and knowledgeable guitar player as quickly as possible. It starts at the very beginning, assuming that you're starting from scratch. By the end of this course, you'll be playing chords in songs, soloing, strumming various patterns, reading guitar tabs, and generally understanding your guitar. You'll be able to teach yourself any song you want to learn. You'll be able to play guitar by yourself or with friends.
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By Dan Dresnok | in Online Courses
This complete ear training course will teach you how to identify any relative note, interval, or pitch by ear. Ear training is an extremely valuable skill that's taught in every university-level music program - and is now available for you in this course! You'll use relative pitch ear training to hear & play music without actually seeing our guitar - only hearing it. This is a skill that every musician can easily learn and every pro guitarist uses regularly. Any kind of six string guitar will work well for this course - electric, acoustic, or classical.
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By Dan Dresnok | in Online Courses
This is a complete course to help you fully understand and play real blues guitar. The class starts at the very beginning (assuming that you're starting from scratch) and works its way up to advanced blues. By the end of this course, you'll be chord comping and soloing over several different major & minor blues progressions and songs. You'll have endless chord changing possibilities so that your chords will always be exciting with unlimited soloing choices. You'll learn to properly solo over blues songs in any key, giving you several positions and options for where & how you want to approach your solos.
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By Dan Dresnok | in Online Courses
If you are ready to finally learn how to play real jazz guitar, then this course is for you. It will take you from the very beginning to show you the basics of guitar playing through to a high level of jazz in which you'll have knowledge of all chords that exist, basic & advanced scales and arpeggios, rhythm, and music & guitar theory. This course starts assuming that you don't play guitar at all. The first section of the course is all about teaching you the guitar basics to get you ready for the next 5 sections - jazz lessons. Every lesson video in this course has PDF attachments in the additional resources tabs.
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By Dan Dresnok | in Online Courses
Welcome to Guitar Lessons for the Curious Guitarist! This is a complete guitar lessons course for all guitar levels - beginner to advanced. Any kind of six-string guitar will work well for this course - electric, acoustic, or classical guitar. This course is arranged in 10 sections with cumulative lessons that each build on the previous lessons. Throughout this course, you'll focus mainly on chords, rhythm, arpeggios, scales & modes, and more. Any kind of six-string guitar will work well for this course - electric, acoustic, or classical guitar.
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By Dan Dresnok | in Online Courses
In this complete course, you'll learn 20 of the most popular children's melodies in all 12 keys. You'll learn about each song's melody construction and how to create your own simple & powerful melodies when you solo. You'll learn each of these melodies in closed (barre) positions, so it'll be easy to change the key anytime you want. Learning children's songs & nursery rhymes is a great way to improve your guitar soloing. Plus, it's easy and fun! Any kind of six-string guitar will work well for this course - electric, acoustic, or classical guitar.
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By Patrick O'Malley | in Online Courses
In this course, you learn about Advanced Rhythm and Polyrhythms, harmonizing scales, adding percussion elements, using alternate tunings, and blending everything you learned. You will also deep dive into classic compositions and learn the techniques that drive them. At the end of the lecture, you will be able to play fingerpicking style using 3/2 polyrhythms, harmonize scales and incorporate wide intervals, use different bass patterns, and more.
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