Guitar and Bass Guitar Lessons
Whether you want to accompany yourself with Rhythm Guitar while you sing, or you want to shred the fretboard. We can work together and make that happen. I typically use Ultimate Guitar for songs to put context to our technique and theory. With complete guitar beginners, we will start with learning open chords to easy popular songs. From there, we will learn how about rhythm, harmony, and melody. We will learn how notes relate to each other, and how the fretboard works.
I’ve written out some things we can work on below. You don’t have to choose just one stream, either. You can learn all 3 if you like. There’s a lot of overlap.
Rhythm Guitar
For students wanting to focus on rhythm guitar and singing, we will mostly use popular songs as a guide. We will also learn a little bit about note and chord theory, as well as popular chord progressions and strumming patterns.
Singing and playing popular songs
Open chord shapes
Strumming Patterns
Muting techniques
Barre chords
Chord theory
Fretboard theory
Songwriting
Lead Guitar
For students wanting to focus on lead guitar, we will learn riffs from popular songs but we will also practice exercises to the metronome to increase our speed and dexterity. We will learn how to read tab, and if you like, we can learn how to read on a staff. We will also learn music theory in order to improvise and create our own lead lines.
Aggressively shredding the fretboard
Scales and arpeggio exercises for speed
Rhythm Studies
Reading tab
Common licks
Alternate picking, hammer ons, and slides
Rhythm studies and palm muting
Fretboard theory
Chord Theory
Improvising / Writing
Bass Guitar
Bass guitar lessons will focus mostly on scales, shapes, and arpeggios. We will learn many songs to put a context to our knowledge. We will learn chord and music theory in order to develop and understand how bass lines are formed.
Slappin da bass
Rhythm Studies and techniques
Scales
Reading tab
Fretboard theory
Shapes
Arpeggios
Scales again cause it’s so important
Improvising / Writing