Songs by U2, Chili Peppers, Radiohead, The Killers, Green Day, The Darkness, Lenny Kravitz, Blink 182, ACDC, KT Tunstall, James Blunt and more.
This online guitar instruction is a distillation of the live courses that Musicademy has taught to thousands of people. They are arranged in stages that will methodically develop your guitar skills in a step by step way. Each lesson should give you around 1 to 2 weeks learning if you are new to the techniques being shown. Each stage is designed to last a standard term or semester, so generally you should be able to master 3 stages per year if you practice a little every day.
Each 15-30 minute lesson will teach you all the relevant guitar chords, licks, riffs and strumming patterns to enable you to master the song.
Stage 1 are easy guitar lessons for complete beginners so if you have already been playing guitar regularly you should start at a later stage.
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Stage 1 is for absolute beginners who want to learn to play guitar. The video guitar lessons take you through all the basics, including a variety of standard open and power chords, strumming pattterns and some simple versions of a few classic songs.
Stage 2 builds on the basic techniques from stage one these lessons are ideal for someone who has been playing for a couple of months and wants to learn some more new chords and develop their skills with a great range of new songs and techniques.
“I was more than satisfied with the lessons. I chose “Vertigo” which I must admit, I did as a simple guilty pleasure song for myself. This video was magnificent. It took a song that I really had almost dismissed as ear candy and by breaking it into its components deepened my appreciation. There’s just something about a great rhythm riff that is just universal. What other DVD’s and downloads claim to provide these actually deliver, and more.”
Dwight Parker
VA, USA
In Stage 3 we go beyond the basic chords ad begin to explore extended chords, chord shapes further up the neck some strumming patterns, string bending and even your first lead guitar solo.
In Stage 4 we use all your previous knowledage to start to play the actual guitar parts contained on your favourite albums. We also learn about riffs combining open and fretted notes, more new extended and bar chords, 7th chords and arpeggios
Stage 5 is where guitar playing really starts to get exciting as we take you through some exact guitar parts of well known rock & pop songs. You’ll pick up some great techniques too e.g. strengthening your bar chord ability and knowledge, alternative tunings, right hand picking skills, string bending, playing riffs in 3rds and octave based soloing
Stage 6
Stage 7
Stage 8