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So far, Will has had you focus on playing on one string. Now he gives you the tools to play across multiple strings.
Taught by Will Ripley in Rock Guitar for Beginners seriesLength: 8:40Difficulty: 1.0 of 5
Learn to play the electric guitar like a pro! Will Ripley is a veteran teacher that will show you quick and easy ways to start playing actual music on the guitar! Start learning original classic rock style riffs right away, all the while learning solid foundations to your guitar playing. Get ready to Rip it up!!
Lesson 1
Join Will Ripley as he gives us all the details of his series, "Rock Guitar for Beginners". You'll be playing cool rock riffs from the very first lesson!
Length: 5:25 Difficulty: 0.0 FREELesson 2
Will wastes no time getting you playing actual music! Check out this cool riff in the style of Black Sabbath. You'll be rockin' in no time!
Length: 7:13 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
Will continues in this lesson by showing you how to read basic tablature for his Black Sabbath style riff.
Length: 9:31 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
In this lesson, Will takes a break from riffs to show you a great tool for increasing your dexterity on the instrument: the chromatic exercise.
Length: 6:37 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
A good foundation on the guitar has a lot to do with your right hand, or picking hand, technique. Will starts here with the basics: How to hold a pick and how to place your hand.
Length: 9:22 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
So far, Will has had you focus on playing on one string. Now he gives you the tools to play across multiple strings.
Length: 8:40 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
Now that you have some right hand technique under your belt, Will hits you with another classic sounding riff in the style of Deep Purple or Queen. This is an easy, yet great sounding single note riff...
Length: 9:43 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
Will is back with another classic sounding riff! This riff is a great exercise that gets you using your fingers on more than one strings, and improves on your chromatic movement.
Length: 5:44 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
Will uses this catchy riff to teach you how to mute open strings and fretted notes, and how to add some rhythmic depth to your playing.
Length: 5:43 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Here's another catch, classic sounding riff from Will. This one will get you up and running with your alternate picking. A must have picking technique moving forward!
Length: 7:04 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Remember the chromatic scale we learned earlier in this series? Well, Will steps it up a notch by adding a cool funky riff to help you earn your chromatic diploma!
Length: 10:21 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
The minor pentatonic is one of the core scales of rock guitar. In this lesson, Will shows you a super simple fingering for this essential scale!
Length: 8:21 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Now, take the minor pentatonic scale, add some rhythm, and you've got a super cool rock riff!
Length: 4:47 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Power chords are essential to any rock guitar playing. In this lesson, Will shows you the basics. Learn open string power chords and other classic power chord shapes!
Length: 11:09 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
Will's back with another classic sounding riff in the style of Tom Petty or ACDC. This riff builds off of what you learned in the previous lesson on power chords. Use both your open string power chord...
Length: 11:19 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Getting a great rock sound has lots of different elements to it, and one of those is the palm muting technique. Will shows you a super easy way to get rolling on this great right hand technique!
Length: 6:39 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Now Will takes a riff he taught earlier in the series and adds the power chord element to it. This makes the riff extra heavy sounding and extra cool!
Length: 10:48 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Believe it or not, Ripley can show you a way to make your power chords even more powerful sounding! It's a simple fingering shift, but will add a lot of thickness to your power chords.
Length: 12:31 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Get ready to learn a super pro-sounding riff in the style of Audioslave or Red Hot Chili Peppers! Hidden in this riff are some more foundational guitar techniques that will increase your facility on the...
Length: 12:41 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
We've learned the interval of the power chord, now Will shows us some other intervals in the form of two note shapes that are easy, and add tremendous color to our playing.
Length: 10:15 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Will's back with an important and useful technique: Octave shapes. Learn not only the shape, but how to apply muting to get it sounding very professional!
Length: 8:46 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Proper muting can add a lot of passion to your playing. In this lesson, Will shows us how to play single notes without compromising any of the energy or intensity.
Length: 8:27 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Will showed us the first position of the minor pentatonic scale in an earlier lesson. Now it's time to move on to the second position. It's a must know scale and technique!
Length: 5:22 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Up to now we've learned a lot of single note riffs and power chords. Now it's time to inject some chord playing into our technique. In this lesson, Will starts us off by showing us how to read a chord...
Length: 9:13 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Continuing with chords, Will introduces us to some new chord shapes with this Spanish themed chord song.
Length: 6:06 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Sus and slash chords are very important when it comes to making you sound like a pro. Will walks us through a few of the most common ones, and how to implement them in our playing!
Length: 6:30 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
The G major chord is one of the most common chords used in popular music. In this lesson, Will shows some of the more popular and useful variations of the chord.
Length: 5:26 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
One of the biggest issues for beginning guitarists is changing chords. It can be a source of great frustration. Join Will as he shows us his secret to changing chords that will revolutionize your playing!
Length: 11:42 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
By now you've learned what an important role rhythm plays in the process of learning guitar. Will gets more specific here by showing us some basic rhythms and how to count them.
Length: 14:45 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Ever wonder how certain songs get really pro sounding chord progressions and strumming? Here's a peek behind the curtain as Will shows us a chord progression that is simultaneously easy and great sounding!
Length: 16:04 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Strumming and rhythm is something that frankly gets taken for granted when learning guitar. But, it's just as important as the notes you play on the fret board! Will gets you started on the right foot...
Length: 11:42 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
It's time to get deeper into chords! In this lesson, Will shows us all the major and minor chords.
Length: 12:30 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
The 12 bar blues is a fundamental rock and blues song form. Will shows you the 12 bar blues, but puts a little twist on it to make it sound extra rockin'!
Length: 7:44 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
In part 2 of the 12 Bar Blues Song, Will gets into the meat of the 12 bar blues form.
Length: 11:25 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Will brings together several chord playing techniques in this lesson that will challenge you and keep you on the road to sounding more like a pro!
Length: 15:20 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Will now brings us the 3rd position of the minor pentatonic scale. This is one of the great rock guitar scales, and Will is building towards having you cover the entire fret board with this scale!
Length: 4:42 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Here's a couple of exercises that will help build your "chops", otherwise known as your strength and dexterity on the guitar!
Length: 11:29 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Don't let the phrase "music theory" scare you off! It's merely an aid to help you understand what you've been learning and playing so far. Will uses this lesson to show you a very important scale that...
Length: 10:59 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
On to the fourth position of the minor pentatonic scale! As usual, Will shows us the scale, then shows us a way to connect all of the positions so far.
Length: 4:16 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Believe it or not, finding and knowing every note on the fret board is not as hard as it may seem. In this lesson, Will demystifies the fret board taking away that overwhelming feeling when you look down...
Length: 13:39 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Leading up to learning your barre chords, Will shares this lesson with us that gets us familiar with some of the basic shapes we'll need to know. Plus, you get to learn some super cool sounding chords!
Length: 9:26 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
The "dreaded" barre chords are anything but dreaded here. Will gets you going on the four basic shapes, with some tips and tricks to make them frankly, quite easy!
Length: 15:27 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Now Will gives you the chance to put those barre chords into practice! Here's a super simple little song to help you get more familiar with the shapes we learned in the last lesson.
Length: 8:48 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
The Grand Finale of your minor pentatonics: The Fifth Position. Now that you have all 5 positions, Will shows you some cool ways to practice these, and consequently, the ability to begin using them in...
Length: 9:28 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Member Comments about this Lesson
Discussions with our instructors are just one of the many benefits of becoming a member of JamPlay.Great point about the hand gliding across the bridge. I never realized that I played with my right hand pretty stationary.
Awesome!!! I've been frustrated by the additional "String Ring" for years. I'm self taught, and this is something I've never seen covered before. How to overcome this issue was very helpful.
Really enjoying this course, great lessons which are having an immediate impact on playing and learning. thanks Will
Who would have thought that this basic instruction could have such amazing results in practice. Genius! Really enjoying this series of lessons.
Very good sequence of lessons. Even intermediate players should review. I learned a lot about my bad habits! Thanks Will!
Thanks for this useful lesson. You answer many of my questions about piking.
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Great reinforcement concepts.
Wow, that simple lesson started making a difference immediately! I used to practice scales and exercises to no avail, and could never pick up any speed past a certain point, gliding the right hand across the strings made all of the difference in the world!
Very good lessons! I've been playing Acoustic Bluegrass for a couple of years now. Wanted to get into some rock Electric as well. This is definitely the answer. I'm not a beginner, except for the electric, but I'm getting a lot out of each lesson. Keep up the good work, I look forward to continuing with these sessions.
Started your lessons this week. So good....great to get really good advice and demonstration of pick holding and resting my right hand on the bridge. I have been trying to play guitar on and off for years...these lessons are really helping me. Thankyou so much.
Man, this is a killer lesson. I have been playing acoustic for a few years and this video really helped my electric guitar playing. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Thank You! What a great instructor! back to basics and breaking down what is usually overlooked or skimmed over. Great job Mr. Ripley. I have always had an issue with ringing strings that drives me crazy trying to mute. Look forward to each lesson.
Five stars for the first installments 1-6. How to hold the pick and other mechanics is hard to get good instruction on without someone in person guiding you. You do a good job demonstrating and explaining your reasons. Anchoring as you describe it's hard not to mute strings on a tele or strat.
Enjoying your 1st 6 lessons. Taking break from memorizing Cheryl's Diatonic 7th Drop 2/3 voicings. 1st Love = Jazz style. American Songbook, but want a smattering of RR technique to complement Hawkeye/Eric Maddis finger style blues & impress my grandkids. Jamplay is wonderful resource. You are articulate instructor. Look forward to more of your lessons.
good lessons Will. Where are the rest?
There are no more lessons to come? Will teaches in a really intuitive and practical way.
There are a lot more to come over the coming weeks. We are spacing these out for a few reasons. 1.) It takes time to edit. 2.) We don't want people taking the lessons too fast, at least initially. These is a big series and it's probably a mistake to watch video after video without practicing.
really jbooth? I just asked if there was more to come in a very complimentary way and I get a patronizing reply like if the fact that you take ages to upload videos is because it takes too long to edit them and to give us time to practice? I can see that Jamplay is more focused in posting free videos on you tube and giving frebees to non members so you get more paying users than to take good care of the ones you already have. You really need to improve your costumer care...
It wasn't meant to be patronizing, I just wanted to let you know why they weren't ready yet. Sorry if I offended you.