To start, we will look at the fundamental chord progressions of the blues, and slowly make our way up the twentieth-century lexicon of popular music. While we may be beginning in the blues, this course will branch out to numerous genres including but not limited to: folk, classic rock, soul, country, pop, and hard rock. On the technical side of our lessons, we will look at our first position chords, barre chords, chord extensions, and most importantly, how these all relate to our number system. Whether you are just beginning your journey with learning a few chord progressions, or you want to solidify your understanding of how keys and chords work, this course will help you understand, memorize, and create great harmony on the guitar!

This course is designed for players who already know some blues, but are feeling stuck. You may already know some blues licks and might attend a blues jam. But you want to push your playing forward by learning new embellishments. You will learn how to invigorate your blues playing, both with new chord voicing/comping and new soloing concepts.

Continuing from the first installment of Classical Classics, award-winning classical guitarist Evan Taucher will be guiding you through 10 more of the most famous and developmental classical guitar passages. Learn pieces such as: Adelita by Francisco Tárrega, Mallorca by Isaac Albeniz, Bouree from BWV996 by J.S. Bach, and many more! As you learn these amazing pieces, you'll find that they become vehicles for learning foundational classical guitar technique; from beginner to advanced!

Learn a new Bluegrass guitar solo each week. We'll be focusing on the acoustic flatpicking guitar style, but these solos can be played on any type of guitar, acoustic or electric. Expand your vocabulary of licks, tricks and melodies over standard chord progressions that you can incorporate into any type of music that you play. These solos are inspired by some of the greats of bluegrass and country/folk music like Mother Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Clarence White and others!

Harmony has always been one of the most fundamental aspects of any style of music. Yet as guitar players, we sometimes shy away from this world that seems to be bursting with theory and complex concepts that feel overwhelming to translate to our six strings. In this course, we will take a no-nonsense and sequential approach to learning how to construct, voice and use chords on our guitar. While we will still talk about why these chords work and what some of the overarching theory is in creating these chords, the emphasis will always be on how we can get to using these chords in our music as soon as possible! We will begin the course with our different types of power chords and first position chords, and slowly make our way through inversions, barre chords, extensions, and upper voicings. In addition to learning each technique and concept, our lessons will also have short progressions and songs with included backing tracks, so we can practice these voicings with a real band. Whether you are starting from scratch, or just need to fill in some gaps in your knowledge, this course’s comprehensive approach will make sure there is something for all guitar players!

Bending, vibrato, slide, hammer on, muting, harmonics and volume swells are some of the amazing techniques we can use on the guitar to produce beautiful sounds. Let’s not forget that our fretboard has a very similar range to a vocalist, so essentially what we want to do is “sing” on our guitars with our fingers. Join Irene Ketikidi for the 10 week course, exploring the various facets of expression techniques on your guitar!

Whether you’re an electric guitarist, steel string player or seasoned classical guitarist, you’ll be approaching these iconic pieces with style and technical clarity. There is something here for everyone! Evan will examine these iconic pieces, giving the advanced player and the beginning player something to walk away with. Join him as he guides you through the whole process, one piece at a time!

In this 10 week course, Dave will provide you with all the basics necessary to be able to play thousands of different songs. You'll learn basic chords, how to switch between them, strumming logic and gain an understanding to read basic rhythms. You'll also learn a bunch of really fun strum patterns and progressions as well as ways to add dynamics and bass motion to your chords.

Have you ever listened to a modal tune that you couldn’t really pin down one of the scales or sounds you were hearing? Or have you been practicing with a song and you feel like something wasn't quite right with the sounds coming from your guitar? Understanding modes may be the key to unlocking these mysteries of guitar playing. During this course, you will learn how to hear each mode; associating their sound with common references. We’ll also work with typical chord progressions for each mode and learn to play a featured lick every week. Not only will you develop a wider palette of notes to choose from, but you will also hear and feel harmony in a new and exciting way!

Whether you are a bare-bones power chord punk player or a colortone savvy jazz master, the way you construct, organize, and voice your chord progressions creates the entire harmonic landscape of a song. Over the next 10 weeks, we will look at a new chord progression in every lesson that explores different chordal concepts. In each lesson, William will break down the exact chord voicings he is using and explain how we can use voice leading to highlight the tension and resolution of our progressions. Additionally, once we have established our chord progression for the week, we'll dive into the various scales and arpeggios we can use to create colorful solos and melodies over our form.

We will begin with triads and the importance of using and seeing them across the fretboard. We will discuss the sixteen inversions of dominant chords and how they are vital in building and seeing Drop 2 voicings on the fretboard. We will learn some great options for major and minor ii V I progressions using Drop 2 voicings, triads, variations of the sixteen inversions and then create two chord solos using everything we have learned.

Join Marcelo Berestovoy as he explores the various concepts and techniques needed by today's fingerstylists. Learn fingerpicking basics, along with core concepts used in Latin, Jazz, Folk and Blues music. Come join us guitar in hand!

During this course, Irene Ketikidi will be going through all the different picking hand techniques you need in order to play solid rhythm guitar with confidence and an authentic tone. She'll take a look at right and left hand muting, groove and pick dynamics, fingerstyle techniques, chord fills, skank picking, tone, and much more!