Beginner Acoustic Guitar Masterclass – Haley Powers
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Your Outcome
After taking this course, you will have everything you need to start playing out, jam with friends confidently, play at a writer’s night, or start a band.
This course is for the newish acoustic player who wants to keep improving and get better in a completely fun and non-intimidating way!
With this acoustic street skills style course, you will learn:
- Tricks to make your chords fancier and more gorgeous sounding
- Chord theory and understanding how chords are created and grouped together
- How to perfect your barre chords and new types of movable chords
- How to learn the notes on your neck and use the whole neck when playing chords
- Right-hand rhythm techniques so you can create more emotion in your playing
- Fun new songs and licks!
All of the techniques in this course are things you can add into your playing immediately so even if you don’t have a lot of time to practice, you can still start improving right away. After taking this course, you will have everything you need to start playing out, jam with friends confidently, play at a writer’s night, or start a band.
This course is perfectly paced and designed in an order that makes sense and builds on itself. In this course, you will also have access to an online guitar community to keep you encouraged and help you feel like you aren’t on your own in learning!
Course Curriculum
Welcome!
- Introduction (4:08)
- Course Workbook
- Chord Chart Notebook
- Practice tips (3:08)
- Your turn!
Suspended Chords
- What is a chord? (5:23)
- What are sus chords? (2:20)
- Going Through Popular Suspended Chords (4:55)
- Trouble with Wanting – Chords and Strumming (8:30)
- Your turn!
Hammer-Ons
- Intro to Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs (0:35)
- Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs Breakdown (2:25)
- Dreamy Lick in D using Hammer-Ons (2:19)
- Speedy Country Lick in E using Hammer-Ons (3:20)
- Your turn!
Right Hand Techniques and Coordination
- Intro to Strumming (0:28)
- Types of Right Hand Techniques (3:04)
- Slow Burn- Beginner Strumming (6:17)
- Intro to Finger Picking (1:28)
- Fingerpicking technique (2:53)
- Finger Picking (Stone) (7:45)
- Mute Picking (2:23)
- Applying Mute Picking (New Rules) (3:56)
- Plucking Picking (2:23)
- Your turn!
NEW! Let’s Jam (Strumming practice!)
- Intro! (0:46)
- Play Free Fallin with Us! (3:58)
- Free Fallin Lesson (5:15)
- Play Landslide with Us! (3:25)
- Landslide Lesson (7:38)
- Play Growing Pains with Us! (3:19)
- Growing Pains Lesson (7:31)
Alternate Voicings
- Introduction to Alternate Voicings (1:52)
- C Voicings (2:46)
- D Voicings (3:16)
- E Voicngs (4:39)
- G Voicings (2:40)
- Ocean Eyes- G Voicings (4:01)
Barre Chords
- Learn All the Notes on Your Neck (5:29)
- Barre Chord Breakdown (2:45)
- Minor Barre Chords (3:02)
- Half Barre Chords (5:39)
- Dominant 7th Chords (2:11)
- Major and Minor 7ths (4:10)
- Your Turn!
- A Touch of Theory!
- Intro to Theory Concepts (0:42)
- Knowing What Chords Fit Together (number system) (5:42)
- Applying the Number System (3:35)
- Your Turn!
Interesting Tunings Bonus section!
- Alternate Tunings Intro (1:02)
- Drop D Tuning (2:51)
- High D Tuning (1:58)
- Open C Tuning (3:39)
- Use Open C Tuning to play “Til Kingdom Comes” by Coldplay (5:34)
- B to A Tuning (1:36)
Wrap Up
- Gig prep (part 1) (5:15)
- Gig Prep (part 2) (3:44)
- You Got Thissss (2:06)
- Thank you! (1:26)
- Additional Resources
- How to Practice with a Metronome (5:06)
- What is a chord shape (1:23)
- Pinky Strength (3:10)
- How to Know Where to Capo/ CAGED
