Learning to Play Guitar : Chords, Scales, and Solos

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24 lectures (30 min. each).
Guitar basics: play a song in 60 seconds -- Tuning up, reading music, and dexterity -- Classical guitar position and posture -- Learning how to practice the guitar -- Playing fingerstyle guitar -- Playing rhythm guitar -- The pentatonic scale -- The blues scale and lateral stretching -- Planting for control and accuracy -- Guitar tremolo: gaining speed -- Legato and power chords -- Travis picking for folk, country, and rock -- Hammer-ons and pull-offs -- Finger independence and chord theory -- Crosspicking and bass lines -- Piano-style guitar and fingernail care -- Syncopated strumming and movable scales -- A new pentatonic scale and the capo -- Barre chords: movable chords -- Flamenco technique: rasgueado -- Playing with natural harmonics -- Jazz harmony and Dorian mode -- DADGAD tuning and Lydian mode -- Taking the guitar to the next level.
Lecturer: Dr. Colin McAllister.
Learn how to read music and play the guitar from a master of the instrument.
DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Definetly for Musicians with experience submitted by timdufresne on July 12, 2018, 12:20pm This was a great series for learning about music and the nature of guitar playing. Definitely not for first timers, but really interesting for folks wanting to learn more about the guitar and music.