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Approaches & Strategies for the Popular Music Guitarist
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Approaches & Strategies for the Popular Music Guitarist

Popular Music Guitar - Music theory, Songwriting, Composition, Melodies
Created byDarren Lindsay
Last updated 5/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand basic music theory for composing lead lines
  • Understand professional standard approaches and strategies for writing popular music lead guitar lines
  • Develop skills for composition and melodic creation
  • Develop an understanding of expression and creativity

Course content

3 sections • 16 lectures • 54m total length

  • Course Introduction1:13

    Explore approaches and strategies for writing lead lines in popular music, from a theory primer to professional methods for crafting melodies with intention and purpose for original pieces.

  • Introduction1:25

    Explore intervals and music theory basics, then study major, minor, pentatonic scales, and major/minor triads across the fretboard, with practice prompts and PDF handouts.

  • Intervals5:09

    Explore intervals as the building blocks of music theory, learn major scale intervals, and see how altering them forms scales and chords to enhance melodies, lead lines, and soloing.

  • The Major Scale3:58

    Explore the major scale in G major, its intervals and chord qualities, plus the five kage positions to visualize notes across the fretboard and relate G major to pentatonic patterns.

  • The Minor Scale3:12

    Discover the natural minor scale, flattening the 3rd, 6th, and 7th for darker, emotional lead lines, and learn the five G minor scale positions with its chords.

  • The Pentatonic Major Scale3:40

    Explore the pentatonic major scale in G, a five-note pattern built from root, major second, major third, perfect fifth, and major sixth, and learn its five positions.

  • The Pentatonic Minor Scale2:35

    Learn the pentatonic minor scale, including its five positions, essential intervals, and chord usage. Practice alongside the major pentatonic and full scales to craft lead lines for popular music.

  • Major Triads2:24

    Visualize major triads across the fretboard, linking chord shapes to major scale notes and intervals, and learn root position, first inversion, and second inversion with bass notes.

  • Minor Triads1:41

    Explore minor triads, using the same string-set practice as major triads while noting the flat or minor third, then revisit the theory primer and head into section two for melodies.

Requirements

  • No experience needed but some understanding of guitar and music theory would be beneficial

Description

This course will deliver lessons on approaches and strategies for popular music guitarists. Section one will be a theory primer designed to give you relevant information to communicate throughout the course. This section will cover the major, minor, pentatonic major and pentatonic minor scale before covering major and minor triads. Section two will deliver lessons on creating melodies and lead guitar parts for songs covering intuition and purpose, how to find and create melodies using the voice, chord tone approaches, triad approaches and also discuss genre specific tones and effects for guitarists. This section will demonstrate how to effectively create melodies, build on them and turn them into sophisticated guitar parts.


This course is aimed at guitarists who are fairly knew to songwriting and feel they lack the confidence and ability to methodically approach the scenario in which you are required to write a lead lead for an original piece of music. If you are a guitarist who is not knew to songwriting but feel like you need some fresh approaches and strategies then this course will also be beneficial for you.


If you are a beginner guitarist section one can serve as an introduction to music theory for guitar and lead you to discovering skills for songwriting as a creative practice.

Who this course is for:

  • Guitarists new to composition and songwriting

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