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Learn guitar the Right way! Beginner to intermediate guitar

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Overview

9 hours! Beginner to intermediate guitar with proper technique. Understand the "why" behind what you play on guitar

What you'll learn:
  • Students will learn proper guitar playing technique, basic music theory, chords and scales and the ability to play hundreds of songs!

++++VIDEO CONTENT IS OVER 9 HOURS OF MATERIAL

++++COURSE INCLUDES 4 DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOKS TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH OR PRINT OUTAND MAKENOTES ON

LEARN GUITAR THE RIGHT WAY!

If you have been trying to learn the guitar on your own, you may be frustrated with your progress. If you are trying to gather information from many different sources, taking a little bit from one teacher and a little bit from another and attempting to piece it all together, you will probably find it difficult to stay focused and on track toward your goal.

The Kickstarter series is designed in avery structured and systematicway. Every aspect is taught in extensive detail and every section progresses from the previous one. You can spend as much time on each section as you need.

Start first with the Essential Theory and Technique course-

ESSENTIAL THEORY AND TECHNIQUE

The Essential Theory and Technique for Guitar course designed for two main types of people; the beginner guitar player who has no guitar or musical experience and those who can play guitar a little bit but are wanting to understand the music theory behind what they are playing and to improve on their technique.

Music Is A Language

Learning music is like learning a language. Music notes are like letters of the alphabet. When you learn how to combine them, you can create chords, which are like words, and with words you can create sentences and tell stories.

There are some great guitar players who don’t necessarily know all of the theory behind what they are playing, but using the above analogy of music as a language, imagine the potential that is being missed out on by not fully understanding what you are playing. If you were taking a trip to France, you could buy a translation book that could tell you how to say certain phrases in French, such as “Where is the bathroom?” or “What time is it?”, but imagine how much more you could communicate if you were able to construct your own sentences and phrases in French? You could say whatever you wanted without limits. Music is similar; by understanding the“why”, and practicing the“how”you reduce the limitations and open up a world of opportunity to express yourself with your instrument.

The course includes a full color PDF E-Book which is over 50 pages and provides further explanation of the material in the videos as well as guitar neck diagrams for your reference.

This course is 2 hours and 20 minutes long and should provide you with weeks worth of material to work on.

The topics you will learn in this course include;

Part 1: Parts of the Guitar

Part 2: The Musical Alphabet

Part 3: Notes on the Neck

Part 4: Neck Diagrams

Part 5: Holding the Guitar

Part 6: Holding the Pick

Part 7: Picking the Strings

Part 8: Left Hand Technique

Part 9: The Chromatic Scale

Part 10: The Spider Exercise

Part 11: The C-Major Scale

Part 12: What is a “Key?”

Part 13: Standard Notation

Part 14: How Chords Are Made

Part 15: Playing Chords on the Guitar

Part 16: Other Major Scales

Part 17: Other Major Scales on the Guitar

Part 18: The G-Major Chord


Follow up with the Kickstarter course, our most popular course, enjoyed by thousands of students!

KICKSTARTER:LEVEL ONE

The Studio 33 Guitar Lessons Kickstarter course is designed to start at the beginner level and progress up to intermediate. This series not only teaches you “how” to play, but also focuses on the “why”. We won’t just tell you to “put your fingers here” to play this chord, we want you to really understand why certain notes work together, while others don’t. Because once you understand how scales work, and how chords are made, it will unlock the mystery of music theory and really open up the guitar neck so you can play beyond the basics.

Kickstarter Level One is over 2 and a half hours long and picks up right where the Essential Theory and Technique course left off.

Some of the things you will learn in this course will include Playing with a metronome, learning how to change chords smoothly and quickly, some new Major and Minor chords, proper strumming technique and

many popular strumming patterns and chord progressions to help you play your favorite songs.

The course also includes a full color PDF E-Book which is over 45 pages and provides further explanation of the material in the videos as well as guitar neck diagrams for your reference.

This course is packed with information, but it is presented in a structured, and systematic way. Each step of the way you will be building upon the knowledge you have learned in the previous lessons, so you will never feel overwhelmed or in over your head. You can move through these lessons at your own pace and watch the videos as many times as you like.

Kickstarter Course: Level 1 is 2 hours and 32 minutes long and includes the following lessons:

Part 1: Technique Review

Part 2: Playing With a Metronome (Part 1)

Part 3: Plating With a Metronome (Part 2)

Part 4: The CADD9 Chord

Part 5: Counting Music

Part 6: Changing Chords

Part 7: D Major Chord

Part 8: Changing From G to D Chords

Part 9: Changing Chords G, D and C

Part 10: Forcing the Changes

Part 11: Strumming “Upstrokes”

Part 12: Practice Routine

Part 13: 2 Octave Major Scales

Part 14: E Minor Chord

Part 15: E Minor 7

Part 16: Changing To and From EMIN7

Part 17: Common Chord Progressions

Part 18: Strumming Patterns

Part 19: Common Strumming Patterns (Part 1)

Part 20: Common Strumming Patterns (Part 2)

Part 21: Common Strumming Patterns (Part 3)

Part 22: Common Strumming Patterns (Part 4)

Part 23: Common Strumming Patterns (Part 5)

Part 24: Which Strum Pattern?


KICKSTARTER:LEVEL TWO

In Kickstarter Level Two, we continue from Level One where you will expand your chord knowledge and learn even more chords including “Suspended Chords” like the Sus4 chord and Sus2 chord. You will understand what they are how to easily modify any chord and give it this more interesting “suspended” sound.

You will also learn more chord progressions from popular songs, the Minor scale, more popular strumming patterns and a very cool strumming technique called Palm Muting. We will also teach you the secret behind the popular “Coldplay” rhythm.

This course is packed with information, but it is presented in a structured, and systematic way. Each step of the way you will be building upon the knowledge you have learned in the previous lessons, so you will never feel overwhelmed or in over your head. You can move through these lessons at your own pace and watch the videos as many times as you like.

The Kickstarter Course: Level 2 is 2 hours and 6 minutes long and includes the following lessons:

Part 1: Dsus4 Chord

Part 2: Dsus4 in a Chord Progression

Part 3: Csus4 Chord

Part 4: Dsus2 Chord

Part 5: Csus2 Chord

Part 6: Strumming Dsus2 and Dsus4

Part 7: Progressions with Dsus2 and Dsus4

Part 8: A Major Chords

Part 9: Asus4 and Asus2 Chords

Part 10: The Minor Scale

Part 11: Major vs. Minor Scale

Part 12: A Minor Chord

Part 13: A Minor Chord Progressions

Part 14: Palm Muting

Part 15: The Coldplay Rhythm

Part 16: Major Scale Sequence

Part 17: D Minor Chord

Part 18: E Major Chord

Part 19: Esus Chord

Part 20: E Major Chord Progressions

Part 21: E Major Chord Progression with D Major

Part 22: Adding in Sus Chords

Part 23: Putting It All Together


KICKSTARTER:LEVEL THREE

In Kickstarter Level 3, we really step it up and start looking at more advanced right hand picking, with string skipping and melodic arppegiated chords. This might sound complicated, but we break it down into its simplest form so you will be playing great sounding melodic playing in no time.

You will also learn inverted chords or “slash” chords such as D/F# or G/B. These are great sound chords that can give your music a real lift.

You will learn to play in different rhythmic feels and time signatures like 3/4 and 6/8, which create more of a swinging type feel.

You will learn the main Barre chord shapes, which can be used to play any barre chord in any key. These chords will really open up some new possibilities in your playing. How to transpose songs in to different keys to make them easier to play or easier to sing. How to use a capo, not only to change the key of a song, but to provide more chord options and variations.

This course is packed with information, but it is presented in a structured, and systematic way. Each step of the way you will be building upon the knowledge you have learned in the previous lessons, so you will never feel overwhelmed or in over your head. You can move through these lessons at your own pace and watch the videos as many times as you like.

Kickstarter Course Level 3 is 2 hours and 17 minutes long and includes the following lessons:

Part 1: Arpeggiated Chords

Part 2: Arp Chords String Skipping (Part 1)

Part 3: Arp Chord String Skipping (Part 2)

Part 4: Advanced String Skipping

Part 5: Slash Chords (Part 1)

Part 6: D/F# in Chord Progressions

Part 7: Slash Chords (Part 2)

Part 8: Slash Chords In A Song

Part 9: Time Signatures (Part 1)

Part 10: Time Signatures (Part 2)

Part 11: Arpeggios in 6/8

Part 12: Major Scale Sequence 2

Part 13: The F Major Chord

Part 14: F Major Chord in a Progression

Part 15: Transposing

Part 16: Using A Capo

Part 17: Barre Chords (Part 1)

Part 18: Barre Chords (Part 2)

Part 19: Barre Chords (Part 3)

Part 20: Barre Chords (Part 4)

Part 21: Chord Numbering System

Part 22: Barre Chords in a Progression


Taught by

Troy Davidson (Studio33Guitar)

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