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Learning to Play Guitar: Chords, Scales, and Solos

Play a Song in 60 Seconds

Series: Great Courses
4.3
(126)
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Episodes
24
Rating
TVPG
Year
2017
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

About

The guitar is one of the most accessible, versatile, and easy to learn instruments you can play. Get lessons and tips from expert, such as how a simple group of four guitar chords enables you to play hundreds of songs. Even if you already play the guitar, this course will broaden your knowledge by applying music theory, history, and expanding your repertoire of songs and styles.

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Episodes

1 to 3 of 24

1. Guitar Basics

30m

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Discover how you can play a simple song on the guitar in just one minute. Then study the parts of the guitar, and how to hold the instrument. Play G and C major chords, and review the classic bass line from the song you learned. Finally, practice your song, combining your bass line with a four-note melody.

2. Tuning Up, Reading Music, and Dexterity

30m

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Consider important principles of musical learning, the essence of practice, and the importance of performance. Investigate how to tune your guitar, and learn a useful warmup. Observe how pitch and rhythm are notated (written), practice E and A minor chords, and work with a musical number using the chords you've learned so far.

3. Classical Guitar Position and Posture

30m

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Explore body posture with the instrument; then, practice your warmup using alternating fingers. Grasp how written music is divided into "measures" and "beats". Learn fuller versions of G and C major chords, see how they are written in the tablature form of notation, and add a melody to the song from the last lesson.

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Artists

Colin McAllisterwriter
Colin McAllisteractor