Mark's Phase 1 series will take you through the basics of playing electric guitar.
Complete course with step-by-step lessons and practice examples.
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Mark will teach you the basics of your guitar and other electric gear. After you know your gear and what it does, it's time to rock. Mark will begin with basic right and left hand exercises and will eventually have you playing chords and learning your first scale.
Begin the CourseMark introduces his Phase 1 series and covers some fundamental electric guitar basics.
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Mark provides a detailed overview of amplification. This lesson has some great info for any electric player.
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Before we start rocking, Mark goes over some tools and training necessary to every beginning guitarist.
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It's time to get some sound out of your guitar. Mark begins with picking hand technique.
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Mark explains proper left hand technique from the ground up.
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Mark teaches you all of the natural notes played in first position. He uses two classic melodies to supplement this information.
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It's time to learn your first scale - the C major scale in first position. Mark also explains how the major scale is constructed.
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Mark covers 7 basic chords in the key of C major.
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Mark expands on chords in C major by showing full forms of the chords you learned in Part 1. He also teaches you the chord progression to a familiar tune.
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It's time to start making some noise by using power chords and palm muting. Mark gives you the framework to start rocking with the 12 bar blues progression.
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Take your knowledge of the notes in the first position and start jamming on a simple pentatonic riff.
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Let's build on lesson 11 with an extended discussion of the pentatonic scale. For lesson 12, we'll simply add one note to the minor pentatonic scale to give us the famous minor blues scale. We'll also discuss new techniques to interject into your playing, including hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and vibrato.
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Mark explains how to finger power chords and how they can be moved anywhere on the fretboard. He also shows an exercise that will help you remember the name of each power chord.
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Mark Brennan explains rhythmic notation, tempos, time signatures, note values, and more in this lesson.
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Mark explores the key of G major in this lesson. He covers the first position pattern of the scale and explains how it can be harmonized in thirds.
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Mark teaches the basic chords of G major as well as some other exercises to get you acquainted with this key.
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Mark explains the basics of D major.
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Mark takes you through the chords of D major and explains some new ones that you haven't encountered yet.
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Mark continues his discussion of power chords. This time around, he explains the circle of 5ths and demonstrates some power chord progressions that illustrate this concept.
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Mark teaches the 1st box of the minor pentatonic scale.
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Mark explains how you can transpose the pentatonic pattern covered in lesson 20 to the key of A minor. He also shows the "lower extension box" and "home plate box."
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Mark teaches the difference between straight eighth notes and the shuffle feel.
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In response to member requests, Mark added another amplification lesson to his growing phase 1 series. In this lesson, he compares 3 classes of amps from entry level models all the way to a Mesa Mark V.
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In this lesson, Mark teaches some blues licks that can be used when improvising over a 12 bar blues progression.
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Mark covers the key of A minor.
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Mark teaches two movable major chord forms and gives many examples of how to practice playing them.
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Mark Brennan shows you how to apply the chord forms learned in lesson 26 to a I-IV-V progression.
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Mark Brennan continues his teachings on movable chord forms. In this lesson he shows the dominant 7th chords and how to use them in a 12 bar blues progression.
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Mark Brennan teaches these minor chord forms and how they are movable up and down the fretboard. He also shows how to use these chords in common progressions.
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