Play Out Loud
All the skills you need to develop expressive guitar parts and melodies, and training to become more confident playing in public or with others.
Find Your Voice: Part 1
This material is all about developing the flexibility of the vocal cords and the release of the air. Work on this consistently, and other vocal skill areas will be easier to develop. If you don’t have enough release of air, it’s very hard to build up muscle memory and coordination. Without those, it’s harder to…
Essential Grooves
Essential Grooves – why music feels good
When you’ve completed this set of material, you’ll be more at ease joining in a variety of different playing situations confidently. You’ll be able to come up with sympathetic rhythms to join in with music in different styles, and to create varied rhythm parts for your own solo arrangements…
Ensemble pieces
This module has some fun songs and pieces that we can play in a lot of different ways. There are parts that suit those starting out on guitar and things that you can play when you have a bit more experience.
You can focus on just one part, or you can play each one in…
Guitar Fundamentals: Single notes, riffs, scales
What’s so good about building up my skills with single notes? Why should I do this and not read a book or watch TV instead?
Even if you primarily want to play songs, your dexterity will increase and it will become easier to play different types of chord fluently. Understanding a bit about scales will skyrocket…
Find Your Voice: Resonance
What is resonance? Resonance is accessing the fullest, free-est vibration and release of your voice, and goes to the heart of encountering, becoming familiar with and developing your own unique style, sound and voice.
On a technical level, resonance is the ability to project your voice and fully release it. This does not mean being…
Guitar Fundamentals: Triads
This module will unlock the neck and allow you to have some of the most powerful skills in all of guitar playing: using triads. When you are able to use these, you can play interesting chords along with other guitar players (and dazzle them), invent melodies on the spot, play guitar solos and melodies in…
Songwriting submissions
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Find Your Voice: Style
During the next four sessions, we will work on developing your STYLE as a vocalist. This is a deeper dive into both the technical and artistic side of developing your interpretations and your musicianship and vocabulary. It should be very enjoyable process gaining understanding and confidence exploring musical settings creatively, and having more ideas and…
Guitar Fundamentals: Sixteenth Note Rhythms
This module follows on from eighth note rhythms and rhythm words, and if you aren’t too clear on that, go and recap it before returning here. You want to be able to swap between any eighth note rhythm words at 120bpm with muted strings as the criteria for knowing them well enough to move on.…
Find Your Voice: Release And Flexibility
This module is all about developing your flexibility and the release of the air. Work on this consistently, and other vocal skill areas will be easier to develop. If you don’t have enough release of air, it’s very hard to build up muscle memory and coordination. Without those, it’s harder to be consistent, and when…
Guitar Fundamentals: How the fretboard works
This material explains the logic behind the layout of the fretboard, and the very best way to start working on learning the notes on the fretboard.
It’s very limiting to be stuck with a few chords but little knowledge of the names of the notes on guitar. If you’ve ever tried staring at a neck…
Guitar Fundamentals: Understanding Rhythm For Guitar, Strumming Patterns
If I told you there was one thing that would make your playing sound great, feel great and your ability to recover after any little mistakes and fluffs really strong, would you want to have this skill as fast as possible?
Rhythm is the underpinning of all music. Yet sometimes it’s not even clear what we…
Guitar Fundamentals: Triads on strings 1, 2, 3
A triad is another name for a chord. The guitar offers us many places on the neck where we can play different versions of the same chords, and each different chord position has a slightly different character. In this module, you’ll learn how to find chords all over the neck. This gives you a lot…
Fingerstyle Travis Patterns
Although fingerstyle guitar playing encompasses any way of playing guitar that uses fingers rather than pick, we often think of Travis style playing when we think of that classic fingerstyle sound.
Travis picking is based around regular patterns played with the right hand. It’s a great accompaniment to singing or ensemble playing and creates a…
How to use Soundtrap
This module goes over how to use soundtrap to record yourself; how to create a track, record, mute and unmute, and how to add a shared project to your account. There are many really helpful things you can do with Soundtrap. Your priority is to make sure you can access your account, accept any shared…
Blues For All
This material builds your ability and understanding of chord playing, riffs and single note lines and also allows you to explore some creativity within the blues style. Blues is a really foundational music genre for guitar and influences many other styles.
You’ll play a blues riff that sounds good in any Blues in A,…
Song Skills
This module gives you a reliable way to approach learning songs, whether to play solo and sing, or as part of an ensemble. You will learn how to get the important elements from songs so that you can play guitar versions of them, and how to apply different techniques to the musical material from songs…
