Essential Grooves Part 2

You can never have too much rhythmic confidence and range! You don’t want to be stuck with the same three strumming patterns for all situations, whether you want arrange your own songs or join in jam sessions.

When you’ve explored this material, you will be equipped to play at different speeds confidently. You will…

Style Part 3

Welcome to Style part 3!

In the last topic we looked at modulating the amount of nasality in your sound by raising and lower the soft palate, and at some longer licks and runs. It can take some time to get used to moving the vibration and resonance around, so you definitely want to review…

Style Part 1

Objectives for week 1:

Congratulate yourself on attending the first four sessions and extending your understanding and experience. Reflect on the first four weeks on flexibility and release and see what you can remember about it off the top of your head. If you sang 3+ times per week outside of the session together, you should…

Chordal picking

This material will develop your right hand technique so that you have some expressive ways of playing chords that showcase the resonant sound of the guitar. When you have worked in this area, you’ll be able to devise your own great-sounding ways of picking chord progressions, and you’ll find it easier to play songs that…