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Total beginner to intermediate guitar - Learn to play by ear
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(15 ratings)
267 students
Created byDaniel Boudreau
Last updated 5/2016
English

What you'll learn

  • Strum chords
  • Play melodies
  • Play picking patterns
  • Play scales
  • Learn to properly tune the guitar

Course content

15 sections112 lectures3h 9m total length
  • Introduction10:12
  • Use this awesome course feature!1:45

    Use the speed feature selection on the video playback controls to change the speed of video playback. If you're uncomfortable with a playback speed of any of the performance videos, take it down to 50% and play along until you're ready to bump it up to 1X. Have fun with it!

  • Course Tunebook (PDF download)0:13

    Here's the tune book for all the melodies included in this course. Use this tune book as a reference only. You should learn the content of this course be ear. Only refer to the tune book if you are really stuck. 

    Learning to play by ear takes a long time. It's perfectly normal to have to revise a lesson several times before being able to play along. Take the frustration out of doing a lesson over and over again. Associate fun with repetition and you'll succeed at learning music by ear.  

Requirements

  • Acoustic, classical or electric guitar
  • Willingness to play in short sessions EVERY DAY, unless it is absolutely impossible. You must TAKE the time to play. This way, can't make the excuse that you didn't HAVE time to play. This mindset alone can skyrocket your path to becoming a guitarist.

Description

Are you beginning the guitar? OR.....

Have you been playing the guitar for a while, but feel that you are "stuck"?

Look no further if you not only want to become a guitar player but also a better musician.

In my many years of playing guitar and teaching, I have seen beginning guitar players get led astray because of a lack of foundation. People who pick up the guitar sometimes rush toward playing their favorite song or learning a solo with tabs. Although, there is nothing wrong with this, I have often seen that it can lead to discouragement and/or a poor interpretation of music. People end up playing bits and pieces of melodies and can rarely play any song from beginning to end. Or they have a poor sense of rhythm and this makes it hard to play with others. They become closet guitar players because the music only sound right to them.

Other people learn a bunch of chords to songs and are incapable of playing any melodies.

This course is here to fix all this.

Get you off on the right foot by getting a solid foundation in melody. After a short while, you will start to hear the melody within you as you are playing. Just play along with the videos and don't be afraid of starting videos again from the start.

The lessons are divided by string groups. The first lessons include melodies that can be played using only the first two strings of the guitar! From there, each new section introduces a new string. There are also sections that teach chord strumming, fingerpicking and advanced tuning.

Here's a breakdown course's sections:

  • Download a PDF Tunebook of all the music in the course written in standard and TAB notation. 
  • Tuning notes
  • Melodies using the first two strings of the guitar
  • Melodies using the third string
  • Melodies using the fourth string
  • Melodies with changing positions
  • Melodies using the fifth string
  • Melodies using the sixth string
  • Playing in closed position
  • Advanced melodies
  • Learn how to strum and play chords
  • Scales
  • Fingerpicking
  • Advanced tuning techniques

The aim of this course is to get you to play by ear with the help of the video lessons. The format is the same throughout the course. First you will see an example of the melody or exercise you are going to learn. The following video is the lesson that teaches you the melody. This way, once you are learning, you will already have the music in you ears. All you have to do is make your fingers interpret what you are hearing. Then, you can go back to the previous video once your music is up to speed.

You see, it is possible to have the same mindset of some of the greatest musicians right from the start. All the greatest musicians have one thing in common; they are playing what they are hearing.

This course will teach you to do exactly that and more! Don't feel that you need tablatures or sheet music in order to play music. Just watch and learn and you will be amazed at what happens in a short period of time.

See you inside!

Who this course is for:

  • Best suited for ages 12 and over
  • If you like lessons that are short and to the point, you'll love this course!
  • This course will not only show you the basics, but will train your ear. You will go from being a guitar player to a MUSICIAN.