Callum Bair

Callum Bair

From Monique Brooks-Roberts, The KYN, JoFoKe, Brionne Aigné

Callum is a multi-instrumentalist with over 10 years of experience in the studio and on the stage. Throughout his career in the greater Colorado music scene, he has gigged extensively in a wide array of genres from jazz, to rock, to pop, to gospel. He has performed with numerous entertainment companies, churches, and local and international artists such as Le'Andria Johnson, Brionne Aigné, Monique Brooks-Roberts, JoFoKe, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and many more. On top... (more)

Callum currently offers 128 guitar lessons at JamPlay, with 50 beginner lessons, 61 intermediate lessons and 17 song lessons.

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Rock Guitar for Beginners

Got a new rockin' new electric guitar and not sure where to begin? "Rock Guitar for Beginners" with Callum Bair has all the tools you need to get up and running with your best foot forward! He covers all the basics of your new instrument and even gets you playing a variety of riffs and licks that get you on your way to becoming a confident musician!

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Introduction

Callum Bair introduces us to "Rock Guitar for Beginners"!

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Getting to Know Your Guitar

For our first lesson, Callum gives us a complete walkthrough of the different parts of our guitar.

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String Names and Tuning

Now that we have familiarized ourselves with our guitar, let's talk about the string names and how to correctly tune!

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Putting Your Hands on the Guitar

For this lesson, Callum guides us through how to properly pick and how to begin playing notes on our guitar!

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Reading Tablature and Basic Notation

Now we have the fundamentals of how to play certain notes, let's look at how to read tablature.

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Your First Riff!

In this lesson, Callum walks us through our first riff!

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The Caterpillar Exercise

Now that we have our first riff under our fingers let's now learn a technical exercise that will help us learn how our picking hand and our fretting hand communicate.

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The Minor Pentatonic Scale

For this lesson, we cover a scale that is used quite a bit in the rock genre, the minor pentatonic scale.

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Open String Power Chords

Callum covers a common staple in rock music where we play two notes at the same time called power chords!

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The Most Basic Blues

Let's take the open power chords we just got under our fingers and apply them to some basic blues, called the 12-bar blues formula.

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The Musical Alphabet

For this lesson, we slow things down a bit by taking a deeper dive into the musical alphabet and how we can apply it to our guitars.

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The Major Scale

For this technical exercise, Callum walks us through the Major scale in the key of A.

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The Two Finger Power Chord

For this lesson we expand our knowledge on power chords!

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Changing Strings Riff

Now that we have 2 finger power chords under our fingers, let's focus on how to comfortable switch strings.

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Classic Rock Power Chord Riff

We continue with power chords this time looking at how we can create dynamic sounds using just one string set.

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Covering Rhythm

Callum breaks down some theory in this lesson, talking about the importance of understanding rhythm.

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First Position Major Chords

We have covered a lot of ground in this series, we are going to keep pressing forward with learning our full first position chords.

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Moving The Blues

Now that we have a better concept of rhythm and our first position chords under our fingers, let's revisit the blues progression we learned earlier in the series.

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The Minor Scale

For this lesson, we learn one more scale for this series, the minor scale.

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Classic Rock Open Chords

We revisit some of our open chord shapes for this lesson to play this AC/DC style riff.

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Minor Chords

For this lesson, Callum talks us through the minor chords which we associate with more of a "sad" tone in music.

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More Major Chords

In this lesson, Callum gives us three more first-position major chords!

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Minor Alternate Picking Lick

Callum gives us some insight on alternate picking, which will become extremely useful to us when we need to pick up speed on our guitars!

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Minor Hammer-on Lick

Let's add a tool to our musical toolbox with hammer-ons and pull-offs that will add us in achieving speed on our guitars!

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Our Final Song and Solo

For our last lesson in this series, Callum shows a chord progression that will use some of the major chords we have learned.

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Rock Rhythm for Beginners

Are you familiar with your fretboard but are struggling on finding your cadence with rhythm guitar? This course will give you all of the tools needed to connect the dots from knowing the concepts and ideas of rhythm guitar to actually playing and implementing these ideas in the correct places within music!

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Introduction

Callum Bair introduces us to "Core Skills: Rock Rhythm for Beginners"!

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First Position Major Chords

For our first lesson, we center around the first fret of our guitars and look at our major chords.

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Playing it Open

Let's build on our previous lesson with a four-chord progression that helps us learn more about voicings and how to properly use them in a song.

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First Position Minor Chords

For this lesson, Callum walks us through minor chords in the first position.

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Leaving it Open

Now that we have the open position minor chords under our fingers, let's put them in a progression!

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Simple Theory of the Blues

In this lesson, Callum walks us through the 12-bar blues formula which governs everything in the blues genre!

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Swingin the Blues

Now that we have the 12-bar blues under our fingertips, let's get a little more creative with it in the key of E.

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Nashville Numbers - Part 1

Callum breaks down a little theory in this lesson by going over our Nashville number system.

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Playing it Open (Transposed)

Now, let's take that number system and implement it into a real-world scenario where we take a song in one key and move it to a different key!

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Nashville Numbers - Part 2

For this lesson, Callum continues to unpack the number system this time focusing on minor keys.

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The Power Ballad

We dive into a power ballad for this next lesson! Callum gives us some tips using the number system within power ballads and as well as arpeggiating notes!

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Major Barre Chords

Barre chords are one of the fundamental aspects to understanding how chords work on our instrument, Callum gives us a deeper look into these chords so we can have a firm understanding of how these chords can help us within rhythm guitar.

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Clashing it Up

We have had several lessons addressing theory up to this point in the course, let's take all that knowledge and apply it to this punk style progression.

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Minor Barre Chords

For this lesson, we are going to break down how we can take a barre chord shape and move our minor chords around.

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The Offbeat Exercise

Let's switch gears a bit and focus on our rhythm with this reggae-style progression.

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Riffin like Zeppelin

We are divining into some classic rock styles for this lesson! Callum walks us through a Zeppelin-style riff!

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Riffin like AC/DC

We break down an AC/DC style riff focusing on our A chord and our D chord.

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Riffin like Sabbath

For our Sabbath style riff, we look at our power chord shapes and how to make them moveable.

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First Position Inversions

For this lesson, we take a deeper look at inversions in the first position.

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AC/DC Inversions

Let's take our previous lesson and apply it to a specific style of rock guitar!

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Barre Chord Inversions

Continuing with inversions, for this lesson we will take a note other than our root note and put it in our bass.

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Jimi’s Inversions

Let's look at another famous rock style, Jimi Hendrix! For this lesson, we again focus on inversions to see how Jimi mastered his specific sound within his ballads!

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Sus Chords

For this lesson Callum talks us through sus chords, he breaks down what makes up a sus chord, why they sound the way they do, and how we apply them to our guitar playing.

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Nashville Barres

As we get to the end of our course, Callum takes us through an exercise that has been a core tool in his toolbox when it comes to learning different songs, and playing at different kinds of gigs!

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The Ending Ballad

For our last lesson of the course, we will combine a few different elements we have learned throughout this course to create a ballad!

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