SkillShare Learn Guitar The Expanded Beginners Guide [TUTORiAL]

Welcome to this beginner guitar class. It covers everything you need to become a confident and creative guitarist. You can join with an acoustic or electric guitar. And you don't need any previous guitar playing experience.

Guitar lessons can seem like a daunting process for some students. But with over 20 years playing & teaching experience - and a focus on encouraging self-belief and creative expression, I hope to make this an enjoyable and rewarding journey for you.

In this class you will learn:

• Guitar anatomy
• Tuning
• How to read chord boxes & tab
• A variety of playing exercises to improve overall technique
• A big selection of riffs from a mix of musical styles
• Major and Minor chords
• The foundations of Music Theory
• Full songs (with extra ones attached as PDF's)
• How to restring your guitar
• How to develop timing
• Strumming patterns
• Power Chords
• Scales
• Lead guitar & improvisation
• Hammer-on and Pull-off techniques
• How to create chord structures and work within keys of music
• Songwriting - how to compose your own music

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