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At the guitar school we teach each
guitar student the songs that they want to learn.
This way the student maintains a desire to reach his musical goals while enjoying
the learning process.
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Beginners
Melody Learn the basic techniques including, the sweet sounding penta-tonic scale and explore the thousands of possible ways to combine these simle five notes into your own beautiful music.
Rhythm Learn about rhythms and how most rhythms are contained within one simple 1/8 note strumming pattern.
Harmony Learn the basic open chords and how they can be moved up and down the guitar neck.
By learning how to combine the rhythm with the harmony we can begin to learn your favourite songs.
Other Topics Include
Reading music on the guitar
Proper techniques for both the right hand and the left hand.
Proper posture
Listening and hearing
Intermediate
For students who have a basic understanding of the guitar
and a strong desire to continue to advance in both musical understanding and musical intuitiveness.
Advancing
Advance learners have
a quick understanding of their scales and arpeggios, and are proficient in the various positions up and down the neck.
With this understanding the student can begin to explore in depth harmonic possibilities and melodic shaping.
Harmony is studied in depth. Practice with the use of big band arranging techniques are use to
harmonize. Gradual understanding and physical proficiency using these techniques will enable the student to play any song
harmonizing every note (if one desires to do so) and eventually take improvised chord solos on the fly.
These same techniques can easily be applied to arranging for any style of band or orchestra.
To learn more visit the program page of The Guitar Summit here.
Some of the topics
and techniques for everyone
- bending,
- hammer-ons,
- pull-offs,
- slides,
- octaves (see double stops)
- intervals (see double stops)
- chord progressions that appear in every song,
- power chords
(see double stops)
- pentatonic scales in all 5 positions,
- learn
the true major pentatonic and the true minor pentatonic
- relative minors
and secondary relative minors
- arpeggios and how to build our own,
- the modes in relation to there chords
- why do we have to know the modes?
- chord embellishments - make the music come alive,
- double stops and bending them,
- ghost notes and creating illusion,
- sweeping - forward and backward sweeps,
- delivering the notes, attacks and dynamics,
- developing perfect rhythm made easy,
- funky
rhythms made easy,
- comping, feeling the rhythm
- walking bass lines and how to build them
- how to harmonize a walking bass line,
- harmonics,
- artificial harmonics,
- playing a blues melody while comping
with yourself,
- the upper strata or upper structure and how to use it
- more.
Don't be squeezin'
For no reason