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    Learn Guitar Intermediate Course
    Learn Guitar Intermediate Course
    Learn Guitar Intermediate Course
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    Learn Guitar Intermediate Course

    By Justin Moss

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    About this ebook

    Explore advanced techniques here! 37 individually crafted lessons on theory and playing over 135 pages.

    Advance your skills and knowledge!

    Covers all styles, including Blues, Jazz, Rock and General playing. Fingerstyle, strumming, arpeggio, riffs and licks. Includes great lead guitar ideas and extensive theory and songwriting lessons.

    Explore advanced techniques as 37 individually crafted lessons cover:
    • Finger style
    • Strumming
    • Arpeggio's
    • Riffs
    • Licks
    • Theory
    • Song writing
    • Major and Minor scales
    • Harmonisation
    • Chord Construction
    • Song Structure and analysis
    • Using the circle-of-fifths

    The course has been designed to be the equivalent of Private Guitar Lessons but accessible at any time in your own home - like having your very own guitar teacher in the lounge with you.

    As you learn, consider signing up for the optional accompanying video lessons - enjoy a compete package of learning!

    Written by New Zealand Guitar Teacher Justin Moss, who has taught guitar for over 20 years as FINGERS OF FIRE GUITAR SCHOOL in Hamilton, NZ. Over 2500 copies of the LEARN GUITAR system have been sold.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustin Moss
    Release dateAug 2, 2015
    ISBN9780994127754
    Learn Guitar Intermediate Course
    Author

    Justin Moss

    Justin Moss has been playing the guitar since he was sixteen-years-old, and started teaching full-time not long after that. Many years on Justin is as passionate about the guitar as today as he was when he first picked it up."The guitar is a fantastic instrument," he says, "it encompasses every style of music, can generate any emotion, and is as pleasurable to play as it is to listen to."With his unique and effective method for learning to play guitar, he has had many successes with private guitar students, and taught thousands more around the world with his series of Learn Guitar Courses.

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      Learn Guitar Intermediate Course - Justin Moss

      Hello! And congratulations! If you’re starting this course, then you have most likely finished a beginner course (and passed!). By this, it means that you are able to play the guitar quite competently and are looking to further your skills even more.

      That is what the course is about! With these lessons, we embark on a far more advanced nature of learning than the beginners’ courses. The lessons here are difficult and will require a lot of exercise and constant practice. Most of these exercises are mind-numbingly boring, and most have to be done every day, again and again. But, if you do them, and if you do them properly, the benefits will be amazing.

      You’ll be a far better player in a far shorter time than you could possibly imagine. But you’ve got to do the practice. Do the time. Reap the reward.

      Read on. Practice. Enjoy.

      Good luck and good playing.

      Lesson 1 - The Chromatic Scale

      You should all be very familiar with the initial chromatic scale that we learned in the beginner’s course. This is merely an extension of that scale, and on paper doesn’t look a lot harder that the old one.

      In truth though, this is far, far more difficult than the earlier chromatic scale.

      It is (and was with the old one as well!) a technique builder. Pure and simple. Hard on the hands, difficult for the fingers, but important that we get it right.

      As you can see, it runs across two stings, being the 2nd and 1st. You start with the open 2nd string note (B) and then ascend to the note on the fourth fret, which you play with your little finger i.e. stay with our technique of 1 finger per fret and staying in position. That’s the easy part.

      Now, while holding ALL you fingers still against the notes on the 2nd string, pluck the open 1st string note (E). Then, while holding your fingers down on the second, third and fourth frets of the 2nd string, place your 1st finger on the first fret 1st string. Do the same with your second finger against the second fret 1st string (while still holding your 1st, 3rd and 4th fingers in place). Then do the third finger note. And the fourth finger note on the 1st string.

      You should now have ascended to the highest note of our scale. All your fingers should still be against the fretboard.

      Now descend back to the open 1st string note. Place ALL four fingers as one against the four notes on the 2nd string and descend down through that string as well until you reach the open 2nd string note.

      That is the complete chromatic scale. Now you’ve got to do it again. 20 times a day, actually.

      The most important part about doing this scale is your discipline. The scale must be played evenly and slowly. Speed is of no consequence and will most likely make the scale sound stunted. If it is not played smooth and consistent, it’s not worth playing in the first place.

      The second most important part is your left-hand discipline. Making those fingers do as you wish, with some clamped on the second string and some on the first is no easy task. It will take practice and more practice to get it right, but I think that you knew that already.

      Of a further note, there is no reason that you cannot use a down/up picking motion with the right hand. Up till now we’ve kept things mostly simple and used downstrokes, but it’s time to start alternating down/up etc. Keep an eye that it is consistent also, being down up down up down up etc and not down up down down up up.

      Here’s the diagram.

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      Lesson 2 - C-Major Scale Pattern 1

      Now, we all know how to create a major scale on paper don’t we.

      We use our formula:

      W W H W W W H

      Put that between our notes and we have a major scale.

      Now we also know that W stands for Whole Step, and that H stands for Half Step

      Now on our guitar, a Whole Step is equal to two frets, a Half Step one fret.

      So with all this knowledge, we should have no trouble putting working out the notes for a C-Major scale and putting them onto our guitar.

      I’m sure you all know the notes of the C-Major by heart, so here’s the scale.

      C D E F G A B C

      To put it on the guitar is quite simple.

      We’ll start with what we know. The open notes of the six strings.

      We’ll there’s a WHOLE STEP gap between A (the open 5th string note) and B, so that means that B is on the second fret (a WHOLE STEP is equal to 2 FRETS), and there is HALF STEP gap between B and C (a HALF STEP is equal to 1 FRET). That means that we have a C note on the third fret, 5th string, as the arrow points to.

      Do you understand how we arrived at the C note? If not go through it again.

      Okay, so we have a root note.

      C (Third fret, 5th string)

      Let’s look at our scale again.

      Okay, from our C note, let’s move on.

      We know there is a WHOLE STEP between C and D, so the next logical place to play D is going to be the Open 4th string note.

      There is a WHOLE STEP between D and E

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