Level Two includes weeks 6 through 9 of the Complete Rock Guitar Course. By the end of this program, you'll be at the beginning stage of intermediate guitar.
This explains rhythmic notation (timing and note value). Basic open, first position chords are taught followed by an AC/DC style riff. The real fun begins when you learn how to play barre chords. I’ve always considered this to be the “turning point” of playing rock guitar. Once you’ve conquered barre chords, you’re an intermediate guitarist. To begin the process, I teach a single barre method using drop-d tuning. That means you can begin playing barre chords with one finger. How easy is that?
The next section teaches some simple music theory: intervals, major, and minor chords are explained. We begin a motivation section that explains the top ten tips for mastering guitar. All of this and much more (see bullet points below).
Lesson Materials
1 Video to download and stream (4 weekly lessons), printable tab, backing tracks, and optional Guitar Pro files. No subscription fees. Videos will stream to all devices.
What's You'll Learn
- Practice and motivation
- Rhythmic notation
- A minor and E major open chords
- Chord strumming technique
- Mute sixth string with thumb
- AC/DC style riff
- Mastering bar chords
- Drop D tuning - first step to master the barre
- Tuning my low E string to D - drop D tuning demonstration
- Play power chord with one finger
- The barre technique explained (briefly)
- Song with backing track
- Be sure that each string sounds at the barre
- Intervals explained
- Major scale intervals explained
- Minor is evil
- Power chords are the first and fifth tones of the major scale.
- I, IV, V progression explained and demonstrated
- A minor and E major open chords (Closeup)
- A major open chord up close and personal.
- Five-string bar
- Shapes in front of the five string bar to form major, minor, minor seventh, and dominant seventh
- Move the barre up and down the neck to form hundreds of chords
- Adding notes to the open D chord
- Changing notes on the E string while playing the open D chord.
- Make practice a habit, consistency is the key to success.
- Top Ten Tips for Mastering Guitar
- Tip - The value of repetition
- Exercise 1 from Speed and Accuracy for Lead Guitar
- Whole tone and half tone intervals explained
- The three diatonic patterns
- Avoid spider fingers
- Triplets, three notes per beat
- Shapes from the E major open chord.
- Review of the technique for six string barre chords
- Six string G barre chord
- Barre chords: A major, A minor 7th, A minor, A 7
- Tip - Create your own program
- The hammer-on technique
- How to make the hammer-on sound clearly
- My favorite finger dexterity exercise – 02132432
- Acoustic guitar technique
- All common open chords for rock guitar
- Chord chart
To learn more about what is taught in the course, see the descriptions that can be found for each of the eight levels.