The Essential Beginners Guitar Course
What you'll learn
- How to play Guitar Chords, Chord Changes and basic strumming technique
- How to perform famous songs to professionally recorded backing tracks
- How to enjoy playing Guitar
- How to tune a Guitar
- How to read Chord boxes
- Different types of Guitar explained
- How to use a plectrum or your fingers
- Gear Advice
Requirements
- You need your own guitar
- You need to be patient with your own progress. You Can Do It!
- Regular time to practice
Description
Learn to play Guitar Chords, using an easy to follow format with on screen signals. Master Guitar Chords Changes, with simple on screen instruction, showing you what to do one finger at a time.
The Essential Beginners Guitar Course is structured in three main parts:
Part 1 - Learn Chords
Part 2 - Learn how to perform Chord Changes
Part 3 - Perform to well known Songs, using backing tracks
The course also teaches you to develop your timing skills, using on screen signals to help you learn to play in time to the music. This is crucial in order to create confident sounding performances.
One of the main areas of the course is the detailed instruction regarding Chord Changes. A failure to understand the process of performing an actual chord change is the reason 90% of beginners (according to research) quit guitar. Through this course, any doubt about chord changes is removed, with simple on screen direction, in a clearly focused manner, showing you how to move from one chord to the next, one finger at a time. If this technique is practiced enough, it will enable the guitarist to produce smooth chord changes.
The Songs covered in this course enable the student to showcase a variety of performing skills. The music choice is diverse enough that if these songs are practised enough, the student will easily be able to progress to performing literally thousands of Songs.
Learning to play a musical instrument is one of the most fulfilling things you can do. Whether you're wanting to play in front of family or friends or just for your own enjoyment. Maybe you're looking to take it even further and progress towards a career in music. This course speaks to anyone who wants a solid foundation in guitar playing.
Who this course is for:
- Beginner guitarists
Instructor
- 4.0 Instructor Rating
- 34 Reviews
- 2,518 Students
- 3 Courses
Trained to the highest level, Jon Varley has achieved much success over the past 25 years in music. An award winning student from the age of 16, he attended many different music colleges, gaining a Licentiate Diploma in Guitar with Honours, from the London Guildhall School of Music, studying under Internationally renowned guitarist Neil Smith; a Postgraduate Diploma in Guitar Performance from the Royal Welsh College of Music, studying under Internationally acclaimed guitarist John Mills and taking his study of the instrument even further, a Fellowship Diploma in Guitar Performance from the London College of Music. During his studies he also received the “Music Student of the Year Award”, a Special Commendation and the much coveted John Mills Guitar Prize.
Jon spent the best part of 15 years performing around the world as a soloist and as a session musician. He also has vast knowledge as a songwriter, composer and music producer. In more recent years, Jon has mostly stepped down from performing and established himself as a specialist in the field of music education, training everyone from beginner to professional, including teacher training. It’s from his vast knowledge and experience in the world of music, that he’s created a simple, effective system in guitar training, which comes with a proven track record, with students going on to become successful musicians in their own right.
Now, you too can train with Jon as he brings his courses to the online audience.