
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!
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.
Tune your strings in this video before starting anything.
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:
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!