Skill Building Lesson Sets - Fill in the Gaps
Developing your playing and perfecting techniques, this can be thought of as a catch-all category for more focused, skill-based lessons.
While the rhythm guitarist focuses on song structure and accompaniment, lead guitar playing focuses on melody lines, solos, and improvisation.
Lead Concepts & Techniques
Focus: Dennis Hodges blends conceptual lead instruction for developing solos, improvising, and harmonizing along with lead techniques such as legato, sweeping, and alternate picking.
12 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsRegardless of genre, improving your technical precision is a large component of mastering the guitar, and can lead to new creative options.
Speed and Technique
Focus: Brad Henecke offers exercises and technique discussions to develop your playing, including lessons for economy, alternate, and sweep picking.
12 Lessons Series Details
Speed and Technique
Focus: This exercise-heavy series serves to improve your playing dexterity, coordination, synchronization of your left and right hand, and speed building in the techniques of alternate picking, sweep picking, and legato.
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Warm Up Techniques
Focus: This lesson series will focus on ways to improve warm up routines. Here there will be lots of opportunity to develop new ideas to warming up correctly.
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Speed And Technique
Focus: Allen "Robot" Van Wert teaches his approach to developing technique necessary for fast playing.
5 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsEvery guitarist gets a point where they wish to add their own touch to their play. Tips and tricks including hammer ons, pull offs, rakes and harmonics.
Tips and Tricks
Focus: David Anthony thoroughly explores harmonics on the guitar. He begins the series with an explanation of the acoustic properties surrounding harmonic production. David explains how to add natural, tap, slapped, and harp harmonics to your original compositions.
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Tips & Tricks with Brendan Burns
Focus: Brendan Burns covers tips for rapid chord changing and economy of motion.
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Tips and Tricks with Nick Kellie
Focus: Nick Kellie demonstrates cool ways to enhance your playing.
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6 Week Note Memorization Program
Focus: Learn the notes of a guitar neck in 6 weeks.
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Jim's Bag of Tricks
Focus: In his Bag of Tricks series, Jim provides lessons for frequently asked questions as well as general tips and tricks of the trade.
3 Lessons Series Details
In order to understand the theory necessary to progress as a player, a basic understanding of how to read music and how to read rhythms is necessary.
Reading Music and Rhythm
Focus: Matt brings all of his years of education right to you with this fantastic series on how to read music. You will start with the very basics and work up to some very advanced concepts.
52 Lessons Series Details
Music Reading
Focus: Jim Deeming teaches the basics of standard notation and music reading. He will start off with the absolute basics, so beginners have nothing to fear.
9 Lessons Series DetailsSinging along with the guitar is a time honored tradition that can add depth to your playing. This skill is particularly prevalent to rhtyhm guitarists.
Guitar Performance
Focus: This series is all about guitar performance and the skills you need to do so. This series will cover basic vocal skills, singing and playing, equipment needed for living playing and other crucial skills.
21 Lessons Series Details
Singing with Guitar
Focus: Singing and playing the guitar together can add another dimension to your ability as a musician and guitarist. Steve Eulberg gets you well on your way to being able to sing and play guitar at the same time. He starts with easy one chord songs and moves on from there.
10 Lessons Series DetailsThis lesson series will cover technique and theory regarding songwriting. The process of creating songs varies greatly from person to person so we will try to cover as many methods and ideas as possible.
Song Writing with Mark
Focus: This lesson series will cover technique and theory regarding songwriting. The process of creating songs varies greatly from person to person so we will try to cover as many methods and ideas as possible.
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Chords, Capos, and Simple Melodies
Focus: In this series, Chris will take you from your basic chords and strumming to exploring tasteful ways of playing in a band setting. This will open new creative styling techniques that you may not have known about.
3 Lessons Series DetailsThis series will cover all things music theory as well as key techniques for improvising and how to respond to "in the moment" situations.
Music Theory 101 with Steve Eulberg
Focus: Steve presents an information packed lesson series that will break down the basics of music theory. From the language to notation, all things music will be taught right here.
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Theory and Improvisation with Nick Kellie
Focus: Nick Kellie teaches the CAGED system and theory of modes based around this system of learning.
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Theory and Improvisation with David Wallimann
Focus: David Wallimann will cover all of the topics necessary master the art of improvisation. He will cover theory, including intervals, scales and modes as well as techniques to improve ones improvisation.
13 Lessons Series Details
Improv with Brendan
Focus: In his Theory and Improvisation series, Brendan Burns looks at triads, chord voicings and usage across the circle of fifths.
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Theory & Improv with Brendan Burns
Focus: Brendan Burns talks about the circle of fifths, intervals and more to help you in your playing.
13 Lessons Series DetailsThe 12 string guitar has a very full, unique and beautiful sound. For those who wish to learn the techniques needed to play the 12 string guitar, this series is a must.
12 String with Mark
Focus: Mark Lincoln provides an in-depth look into the world of 12 string guitars in this series. This lesson set assumes an intermediate level of overall knowledge, but starts by covering the very basics of the 12 string guitar.
3 Lessons Series DetailsLearn the ins and outs of rhythm playing from the JamPlay instructors!
Rhythm Guitar with Brendan Burns
Focus: Focusing on different forms of picking and playing can steal your chops away from your rhythm playing. Brendan Burns offers up a 6 week coarse on rebuilding your rhythm chops that focuses on training necessary muscle groups and getting back into tempo.
12 Lessons Series Details
Expanding Your Rhythm Playing
Focus: Chris takes his 6 week series technique into an Expanding your Rhythm Playing session. Here you will learn how to dive into different ways of creating new forms of the chords you currently know. Chris will also demonstrate the theory behind why these new forms can be created.
6 Lessons Series DetailsLearn how to identify chords, their quality and interval distances in this ear training lesson set.
Ear Training with Matt Brown
Focus: Matt Brown provides instruction and exercise to facilitate ear training.
5 Lessons Series DetailsLearn the basics to creating a personal home studio.
Recording and Micing
Focus: Chris Liepe offers insight and ideas on how to create your own "home studio" as well as tips and tricks to proper micing techniques. Everything you need to know to record quality guitar sounds is in here.
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