Improvers

What we’ll be covering?

The course is aimed at taking your playing to the next level: harmony, melody, rhythm, technique and theory/know-how. It’s a structured day with a mix of group playing and learning how to play together properly.

At a glance

The course will cover multiple genres and styles with classic songs to add to your repertoire (Blues, Pop, Rock, Folk, Country and maybe even Jazz, Reggae and more). But really the course is about improving playing skills, building confidence and helping you to enjoy playing the guitar.

As we go, we’ll revise the basics but the focus is on taking things to the next level in terms of:

• Increasing your chord vocabulary (barres, triads and how to find them on the fretboard easily)
• Looking at different rhythms in terms of strumming and fingerpicking patterns
• Exploring essential techniques such as: strumming, picking, fingerpicking, dynamics, how to hang on a chord (substitute chords, adding in little fills, expanding with progressions, adding in bass line movement between chords, using a capo, etc.)
• Soloing – getting started with confidence
• Know-how essentials: CAGED, the L shape, The Circle of 5ths
• Add some great songs to your repertoire
• Providing practice idea and regimes for each aspect
• Maybe even touch on playing and singing at the same time!

The idea is to keep ‘theory’ to an abolute minimum and focus on the practical aspects of improving your playing and make it more interesting and a little more pro-sounding.

Who’s this course suitable for?

This course is aimed at the Late Beginner to Intermediate levels of acoustic and electric  guitarists. The course isn’t for raw beginners! The basic guideline you’ll be absolutely fine if you can play a Blues in Bb! You should ideally be able to:

• Play some basic barre chords with either a plectrum or fingers
• Read TAB, basic rhythm notation and chord diagrams
• Play a song or two start to finish (with written, using a Lead Sheet if needed)

Materials

Full lesson PDFs will be provided. In addition we’ll take photos of any flip charts as well as snippet  videos of the tutor demonstrating /exercises/songs/etc.

What’s included in the price?

• tuition and materials
• lunch
• refreshment breaks

Note: If you require B&B and/or dinners, these are available at the venue. Check out the venue’s website by clicking on the name in the sidebar and call/email them for details. Of course, other venues are available in the area.

Remember

Unlike our online sessions these venue-based courses can only accommodate limited group numbers – book early to avoid disappointment.

There’s fantastic B&B and dinners at the venue (other places are available in the area as well !). Get in touch directly with the venue once you’ve received the Joining Instructions.