Guitar Lessons: Rock Metal Blues Acoustic Guitar Lessons

Rhythm Guitar Level One
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You've started the awesome journery of learning how to play the guitar! That's awesome! You can play a little bit now--especially if you've completed "GJ101 The 6 Week Rock Guitar Crash Course!" You know some chords--or atleast you know where to put your fingers to make some chords--even if you don't know the names of all of them. But you struggle to really play with a solid sense of rhythm -- for example moving from 3/4 to 4/4 to 6/8 time, or playing a chord progression that goes, "C#, A, Fmin G." You've got a good start, but now you're ready to get to the place that you can really play "music." THIS COURSE is EXACTLY what you need! Listen, I get it! I've been there. I've worked with tons of students over the years and helped them master this level of guitar playing--and HAVE FUN doing it! A lot of careful planning went into the development of this course... These lessons are designed specifically to help you get from where you are now (described above) to a place where you can play some nice rythm guitar!

You will learn...
CHORDS: Major/Minor, 7th, 9th and more! And as you learn all of them--you will learn how to play MUSIC with them.
RHYTHM: Each lesson will come complete with several exercises that will challenge you to master different picking and strumming techniques and patterns. You'll learn single string melodies, muting, stacatto pricking patterns, several strumming patterns and more!.

GJ201 (5 Lessons)
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Rhythm Guitar Level Two
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Alright, now you can play rhythm guitar... and that's great, but now you wanna play some SERIOUS RYTHM GUITAR! You asked for it---Here it is-- GJ301 Rhythm Guitar Level Two is all about taking your rhythm guitar playing to an advanced level--We're talking aggressive galloping rhythms, string skipping, using hammers and pull-offs in rhythm playing... and a whole lot more! If you're ready to become a truly accomplished rhythm player---this is the course for you! IMPORTANT: Be sure to check out the GJ201 course. GJ301 assumes that you have mastered everything taught in GJ201.

You will learn...
Advanced Rhythm Skills and Techniques: Strumming Chords is good... but to really play serious rock / metal style rythm guitar you've got to get beyond that---you've got to develop some essential rythm and picking skills that will allow you to parse through strings and churn out rhymic melodies that truly drive a song along. THIS course will get you to that level.

GJ301 (5 Lessons)
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Lead Guitar Level One
"Building your
Lick Vocabulary!"
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This course is perfect for the player who knows how to play rhythm guitar--and is now hungry to begin learning some LEAD GUITAR! Mastering some basic rock licks is an awesome place to start! Licks are a lead guitar player's best friend. You can never have too many licks---they are the building blocks that solos are made from. In this course I will teach you 15 foundational rock licks--all based on the classic minor pentatonic scale. When you complete this course you will be well on your way to becoming a great lead guitar player!

GJ401 (15 Rock Licks)
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Lead Guitar Level Three
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By the time you are ready to take this course you already know your chords & bar chords. You can play rhythm guitar… and you can play some lead guitar. You know the pentatonic scale and some licks within that scale. In other words---you can play rock guitar---but you'd just really like to play it a LOT BETTER!

This course will absolutely help you do that! You will take quantum leaps forward in you playing as you master the neck of the guitar. This course will equip you with "NECK KNOWLEDGE". You're ability to improvise and create leads in any key--all over the neck will be greatly improved. Your understanding of how the guitar works will be BROADENED so that you'll be able to play and improvise easily, in any key. This course includes eight lessons that will teach you--step by step-- how to play lead guitar--literally ALL OVER THE NECK. Say good-bye to having to play all of your licks in that same old pentatonic box! You'll be laying down runs from one end of the guitar to the other! It's not rocket science--it's simply a matter of leaning some funadmental concepts that will open your eyes and help you see how things are connected on the guitar. I will coach you all the way. You can do this! And it's my pleasure to help you do it.

GJ701 (8 Lessons)
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The 6 Week Rock
Guitar Crash Course!
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Beginning guitar can be a challenge. When you first begin you have callusses to build... you're asking your fingers to do all these weird things they've never done before... you're trying to digest all this new musical information... it can be overwhelming. THAT'S EXACTLY why I created this course! In the 6 Week Rock Guitar Crash Course I simplify all of that for you. I can't magically create calluses on your fingers or wave a magic wond and make your fingers instantly feel comfortable making chords---you'll have to do that part. BUT, I can offer you lessons designed SPECIFICALLY FOR BEGINNERS... with no "hard" chords... no theory... no extra info to learn... just the meat and potatoes of what you need to begin playing four classic rock tunes in just 6 weeks! By the end of the course you'll be playing the riffs to --Rock You Like a Hurricane (by The Scoprions), "Living After Midnight" (by Judas Priest), Iron Man (by Black Sabbath), and "Hold On Loosely" (by 38 Special). I will break everything down and make it fun and super easy for you. The best part is--by the end of this course you will have learned some fundamental guitar skills that will allow you to enjoy playing the guitar and you'll be prepared to confidently take on more advanced challenges! This is the perfect course for the pure beginner.

GJ101 (6 Lessons)
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Lead Guitar Level Two
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By this point you can play rhythm guitar... and you are beginning to play some lead guitar too! That's great, but now it's time to start putting some things together. It's time to branch out and begin to master different time signatures. It's time to learn to play rhythms in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, etc. and also to play lead guitar over those rhythms. GJ601 will teach you to do that and more! You'll learn how to:

a) play rhythms in a variety of time signatures!
b) play licks in time over different rhythms & keys!
c) develop your ear so that you can determine the key of a song just by listening to it!

If you're ready to take the next step toward becoming a truly accomplished player---this is the course for you!

IMPORTANT: Be sure to check out the GJ 101 - 501 descriptions. This course assumes that you have mastered everything taught in those courses.

GJ601 (3 Lessons)
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Songwriting 101
How to write songs on the guitar
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I love to wrire songs. i've written hundreds of them. Over the years I've gathered quite a bit of insight and understanding on this subject. In GJSW101 I will share it all with you. I will teach you everything you need to begin writing songs... good songs... on your guitar. I cover song structure... how write a song beginning with a chord progression... how to write a song beginning with a melody... what it means to "arrange" a song, and more. No matter what style music you play/want to write, the information I will teach you in this course will apply!l

"Brad, I think what I appreciate the most are the hands-on, step by step that you lead a person thru when you yourself are writing a song. It helps to put things in perspective. The lesson was great."
Christian A. Commenting on GJSW101.

GJSW Songwriting 101
A 45 Min. Teaching On Songwriting
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"Music Theory" can seem like a scary term... BUT IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE!!!! Music theory--when you really break it down--is pretty easy to grasp AND SUPER HELPFUL--whether you are writing a song, trying to put a guitar solo together... or even when you are trying to figure other people's music out-- having a grip on basic music theory will help you in HUGE ways! This course is written and taught 100% with the guitarist who knows NOTHING about music theory in mind. I will explain EVERYTHING to you... and when we finish--you will be light-years ahead of where you are now. AND, you will have the teaching files forever -- so you can always go back and rewiew whenever you need to!!

GJ501 ?? Min. Teaching
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Grow Your Riff Vocabulary With Rock Blocks!
Tasty, hooky, classic, smokin rock guitar riffs -- you can never know too many!
ROCK BLOCKS are awesome! They're easy to learn, fun & very affordable!
Every ROCK BLOCK has its roots in the classic rock/metal guitar work of the 1970s, 80s and 90s! ROCK BLOCKS will teach you new skills and techniques via a fun and very musical format. You'll have a blast learnig them. And you'll be amazed at how much your playing will improve in the process!
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