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Date: Thursday …September 2, 2021
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BEGINNER'S JOURNEY
Step-By-Step Roadmap... Perfect for beginners or those wanting a review.
BARRE CHORDS
Barre Chords for Everyone... Your struggles with barre chords has come to an end.
GUITAR GYM
Home of Daily Practice Sessions... Check off each session to be entered in the monthly drawing. Read this first...
RGS UNIVERSITY
Choose your own adventure... a treasure chest of courses on many aspects of playing guitar...
Roadmap
Step-By-Step lessons starting from scratch that will give you a solid guitar foundation to build on. Perfect for beginners or those wanting a review.
In this intro for those getting started, you’ll get valuable tips to help you learn the guitar as smoothly as possible. We’ll go on to some of the fundamentals including learning The Parts of a Guitar, the Guitar String Names, How to Hold a Guitar, How to Tune a Guitar and How to Use a Pick.
Let’s start off with simple chords. This will help you practice getting your fingers in the right place to make clear sounding notes. Then we’ll practice switching from one chord to another smoothly.
Time to learn tablature! Along with learning to read tablature, you’ll be working on a critical element of music… Melody. As a side benefit, you’ll continue working on getting your fingers in the right place and making beautiful sounding notes. All this will pay off tremendously in the next adventure.
Here you’ll learn the Magnificent Five open guitar chords. We’ll apply them directly to songs and give you tips on switching smoothly and quickly. With a little practice, the Magnificent Five will provide a foundation for everything to come.
Open up the “Chord” floodgates… we’ll focus on expanding your chord vocabulary. You’ll learn new Major and minor chords, new ways to play them, and even some tips and tricks for changing chords quickly.
Moving on to new chords, new chord patterns, and some practical guitar theory thrown in the mix. Most importantly you’ll learn the most useful chords in the 5 most commonly used keys for guitar.
Don’t let your struggle with barre chords stop you from playing guitar the way you deserve. What makes “Barre Chords for Everyone” different is that it is based on my 40+ years of teaching experience and tested systematic teaching principles that guarantee results... you just follow the system.
I'll help you to break each of the movements needed into small achievable steps Then we'll put the steps back together. Step-by-step... You'll enjoy a fun journey while learning to play beautiful barre chords in no time at all.
The Guitar Gym is the place to grow your guitar playing skills in short daily sessions. The Daily Practice Sessions will guide you through all the essential skills you need to play guitar and grow in confidence... while having fun!. Check off each session to be entered in the monthly drawing.
There are brand new sessions every weekday!
Welcome to the home of Real Guitar U (short for University). Here you’ll find portals to a variety of lessons and tools to help you with your guitar journey. Some are multistep courses like you’ll find in the Course Modules. Others are single video lessons on very specific topics like you’ll find in the Quick Wins.
Sections include:
These are shorter single video lessons on different aspects of playing guitar.
For example, you’ll find a lesson on Strumming Smoothly Using A Pick, or The Basics of Using A Capo.
You can sort the lessons by topic and level.
Multi-lesson courses on different guitar skills and styles.
Some of the lessons, like Bar Chord Boot Camp, are step by step. Others, like 14 Classic Guitar Licks, are not in a particular order.
You can sort the lessons by topic and level.
Includes selected sessions from the monthly Practice Plans organized by subject.
A collection of recordings of the monthly RGS Live sessions. They can be sorted by subject.
You can also find the date of the next session and submit a question.
A collection of song lessons. Includes fingerstyle lessons (guitar solos) as well as strumming.
Here you find all the Quick Wins, Course Modules and RGS Live sessions in one place. This way you can sort and see all lesson on a particular subject.
This is the perfect place to ask musical questions and connect with others on the path. I also respond to every question or request. There are three sections:
Please take a few moments to introduce yourself and tell us a little about where you're at with your journey. This makes it easier for both others and myself to give encouragement and feedback.
This is the heart of the forum. It's the perfect place to give and get feedback about aspects of learning that's not about a specific lesson. Or maybe you just want to shoot the breeze with others who can relate what you're going through.
This is a place to show what you're working on or ready to share with others. It's become fairly easy to record your playing with your phone, uploaded to YouTube and add a link for others to celebrate with you.
Recommendations
Here’s some suggestions on how to proceed depending on where you are in your guitar playing journey. These are not hard and fast rules, but rather just some guidelines I came up with to get you going.
ROOKIE
BEGINNER (< 1 yr.)
PLAYING BUT IN A RUT
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