Expert step-by-step guidance provided. All you have to do is follow the instructions on each video, and we'll show you how to:
Make friends with your guitar – figure out what all the knobs and switches do and gain an appreciation of how your guitar and amplifier work together to produce sound.
Learn to play the amplifier – understand how to adjust your amp to get the sound that best suits the music you want to play.
Understand fingering rules and conventions for each hand
Make nice clean sounding notes instead of ‘dead' or' buzzy' sounding ones. Make some nice grungy sounding notes too!
Read guitar tab that will allow you access to the millions of songs available on internet guitar tab sites
Link notes together in musical phrases, riffs and licks
Lay the foundations of good lead guitar technique and proper coordination between right and left hands and develop speed without sacrificing quality
Play basic open chord shapes and read chord diagrams
Change chords quickly without going out of time.
Play power chords – the key to many rhythm guitar parts in rock songs.
In just 10 short lessons we will have covered everything necessary to start playing some classic songs, riffs and intros:
Teenage Kicks (The Undertones)
Intro to Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple)
Intro to Come as you are (Nirvana)
Intro to Sunshine of your love (Cream)
Intro to Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)
Intro to Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix)
Intro to Layla (Eric Clapton in Derek and the Dominoes)
By the time you get to the end of this course … …
you will be able to play in quite a wide variety of styles. We have deliberately chosen songs with a mix of different styles and sounds so that you get a chance to use all the basic skills developed in the first part of the course.
The video content is supported by printouts showing note by note tab of all riffs and chord sequences
Prompt, friendly support available if required. We do all we can in the design of these lessons to anticipate every question or problem that each individual student may have, but of course we know this is impossible. So please, if you have any difficulties at all following this course, or any questions that the materials don't seem to answer, email us for support – we are always pleased to hear from you!
Course comprises: 10 Video lessons on technique 7 Video lessons on specific songs 18 Printouts
