About this course
This course takes you from your first steps as a guitarist to playing the well-known tunes like Malaguena, Santa Lucia, Henry Martin, The Mulberry Bush, The Waltz, and a lot more.
Many regard playing guitar as great fun, but learning and practicing as necessary drudgery. Fear not, while theres no mastery without practice, this hands-on course is designed to get you playing the guitar from the word go, through the set of lessons youll truly enjoy.
When you finish with the course, youll be able to:
- Read and understand the music notation
- Hold the guitar properly, and apply the left-hand and the right-hand techniques to produce the music people love to hear, and
- Play the whole bunch of terrific tunes.
In short, youre about to acquire the foundation you can build on, by adding more tunes
and more complex techniques as your guitar-playing gets better and faster. By adding your personal touch, youll be developing your own unique playing style from the start.
In this course youll find the tips on how to hold the instrument properly, the original tunes specially designed for fast learning, the instruction on the correct finger arrangements, as well as the variety of compositions, allowing you to choose the ones you like the most.
The FAME (Fast Acoustic-guitar Mastery by Example) 4-step method is used throughout so that you get to enjoy the practice, and experience the fruits of your labor in the shortest amount of time:
- Listen
Listen to the video recording and in your mind picture playing it - Watch
Watch the first part of the video while skimming over the sheet music - Do
Watch the step-by-step slow-motion part of the video with the sheet music in front of you, and learn the whole song, bit by bit, and - Repeat
Practice until its perfect!
The end result: guitar mastery at your fingertips.
For many would-be guitar players, mastering the musical notation is rather challenging. In this course you'll find the mnemonics that we've developed specifically to help you learn the music notes literally overnight - and that's a promise!
...and this way, instead of wasting your time on theory, you focus on practice and on learning the tunes that you love, quickly.
What are the requirements?
- The key requirement for this course is your desire to learn to play the guitar - no prior knowledge needed.
- Apart from that, you'll need a guitar of course :) Go for the acoustic guitar with the wider neck and nylon strings.
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 31 lectures and 42 mins of content!
- Start from scratch, and learn to play a whole bunch of great tunes that everyone loves to hear!
- Here are some of the tunes you're about to learn: Malaguena, Santa Lucia, Henry Martin, Morning has Broken, After the Rain, The Waltz, Lili, Quare Bungle Rye, Sur Le Pont DAvignon, The Mulberry Bush, and a lot more.
- Master the guitar fundamentals, and left and right hand techniques.
- Master the musical notation - and yes, we know that many find this a daunting task, but in this course we have the awesome, never-before-published mnemonics to give you. You'll learn all the notes literally overnight, and it's a promise!
What is the target audience?
- This course is for everyone who wish to learn the guitar, the finger-picking style.
- For those who want to play the guitar without ever learning the musical notation, this course is probably not the best option. It's akin to speaking a language without ever learning to read and write - it's possible but rather limiting.
