Advanced Acoustic Guitar Course

Advance your acoustic guitar skills by exploring country, reggae, and soft rock genres, with practical song examples to help players at the beginner and intermediate levels.

learn to play the reggae offbeat on the high strings with muted strums, exploring four progressively complex patterns, down and up strokes, and rhythmic muting techniques.

Explore the double skunk reggae technique by muting chords in a staccato rhythm, using down-up patterns and off-beat muted strums across two chords.

Learn the boom chick swing in country guitar, using an alternating bass and thumb-led down strums on C major, then F and G, all without a plectrum.

Practice the working bass for country guitar with a medium plectrum (0.71 mm), using alternating and walking bass on the C F C G progression and adding G7 chords.

Explore drone chords in the key of G that keep notes ringing through chord changes, producing a subtle soft rock ambience and a worship mood suitable for church contexts.

Explore drone chords (drunkards) in the key of E and A, using open strings to sustain notes, altering F# minor shapes for hypnotic chord transitions.

Acoustic guitar course lesson 7 teaches worship in E major with drone chords, using E major, F-sharp minor, and C-sharp minor for verse and chorus patterns.

Learn to play a country song that begins in A-flat, shifts to A, and uses G-based chords (G, C, D) with an alternating bass pattern through intro, verse, and chorus.

Master an all-percussive strum in a major key using the one-four-five progression (I-IV-V) for intro, verse, and chorus, with muted strums and relaxed finger technique.