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Better Sounding Guitar With Slurs, Hammers, Snaps and More
One Fret Beyond - smash impossible stretches, frets that buzz, painful bar chords and lots of other tricky guitar stuff
Created byRichard Durrant
Last updated 10/2024
English
What you'll learn
- The three rules of holding your guitar. You won't believe the difference it makes.
- How to banish fret buzz by learning new levels of technical control and finger wisdom..
- Slurs can inject more fluency into your playing. Learn how to refine your slurs, hammers and snaps.
- Tackle bar chords head on with a new relaxed attitude. Feel any difficulties evaporate.
- A new approach to big stretches. Yes, you can help your fingers reach further and make your hand feel and look bigger.
- How to make your harmonics ping and ring! It's no accident...
- Understanding tones and colours. A sonic recipe for your guitar.
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Course content
8 sections • 8 lectures • 56m total length
Requirements
- You'll need a guitar (obvs!). No matter what styler you specialise in Richard recommends using a nylon strung guitar with cutaway and a strap as your study instrument.
- There really are some golden musical nuggets here for all levels and stages of playing.
- This course provides food for thought. It will help less experienced players lay a sound technical foundation and old dogs can definitely learn new tricks from this course.
Description
Whether you're new to playing the guitar, have been strumming for donkey's years or are a legend in your own ego, you're going to learn loads. These films are an entertaining way to thoroughly explore common issues faced by players of any fretted string instrument, be that acoustic, classical, Spanish, tenor or electric guitar.
For instance, do you ever wish you were born with longer fingers so you can make those impossible stretches with your pinkie? The good news is you don't have to tie weights to your fingers to make up for being short changed by nature. And you don't have to buy a guitar where the frets are closer together. Or give up the guitar and buy a ukulele (although if you do play the ukulele, there's much to learn here too). Richard reveals the solution in the 5th film.
What about the sound your guitar makes? Do you prefer to hear your guitar played by someone more experienced than you because 'it just sounds better'? So maybe we have some catching up to do, but this is the course to unlock the beautiful voice that's been hiding in your guitar.
Each episode explores a single, technical concept and Richard’s musical observations and commentary offer direct practical help throughout.
If you fancy a break in your practise - sit back and enjoy.
Who this course is for:
- If you're a newbie guitarist, this is the essential course to create great habits and understand basic guitar facts.
- If you're a pretty average guitarist, you're gonna have lots of 'aha' moments. Tune up and tune in.
- If you're an expert guitarist, this course is definitely for you. It will make you think and enable you to move forward.