How To Play The Guitar - A Guide For Complete Beginners
What you'll learn
- How To Tune A Guitar
- Basic Guitar Chord Shapes
- How To Change From Chord To Chord
- How To Count Rhythms
- Strumming Techniques
- How To Find Songs To Play
Requirements
- How to download files from the internet
- You need to own a guitar
Description
This course is aimed at the student who has never played guitar before. No prior experience is necessary! You will learn to play all of the basic major and minor chords which form the basis of everything you will go on to play once you've finished this course. Also I will show you how to negotiate chord changes - something that many beginners struggle with. With this course you will learn how to do this with ease. In addition to this, you will learn to count and play rhythms as we cover the basics of strumming technique.
All of these skills are demonstrated via eight specially written & recorded pieces of music which showcase the skills & techniques you will be learning. At the end of the course, I will show you how to take everything you have learned and find songs to play with your new found skills.
Who this course is for:
- Complete beginners to playing guitar - no previous experience
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 730 Reviews
- 2,063 Students
- 7 Courses
John has been playing the guitar since the age of 11. He began his guitar journey on a Woolworths Top 20 guitar, plugged into the mic socket of his Amstrad “music centre” (as stereos were called back then).
Before long he was playing in school bands and started gigging at the tender age of 14. On finishing school he trained as a radio officer for the merchant navy.
Then, after a brief spell working in a test lab for a Japanese electronics company, (whilst plying his trade as a guitarist for hire on the local circuit by night), John “turned professional” as a guitarist in the early 1990s.
Since then he's played in a hugely diverse range of bands, from top-40 covers bands & classic country acts through to alt-rock indie groups & blues bands. He's also carved out a reputation as a session player & sideman for various touring & recording musicians in his native Teesside.
John's influences are varied & include “all the usual suspects” as he puts it, plus a few you may not expect... Eric Clapton; Gary Moore; Jeff Beck; Kenny Burrell; Miles Davis; Joe Satriani; Edward Elgar & Chuck Berry to name but a few.
These days, John puts food on the table by teaching a select group of students from his home studio in Redcar, as well as recording his own brand of original, melodic, bluesy rock guitar music, which is available across all major platforms & via his website