You’ve got the guitar basics down: You can strum your guitar and play a few of your favorite songs, but you’re ready to take the tunes to the next level. In Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions you’ll expand your knowledge of scales, chord fingerings, and common chord progressions. You’ll also learn important skills for soloing, creating melodies, and adding depth and dimension to your guitar playing.
Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions
This course is part of How to Play Guitar Specialization
Instructor: Amanda Monaco
Sponsored by Barbados NTI
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Play scales in a moveable open position
Identify and play major, minor, diminished, and augmented arpeggios
Add rhythmic timing to arpeggios and strumming to enhance your playing
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There are 5 modules in this course
Welcome to Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions! Here we will cover all the details about the course and what you'll need to know to get the most out of your experience.
What's included
1 video3 readings1 assignment
In this lesson, we'll be learning and practicing the pentatonic scale. First we'll learn the b3 pentatonic scale, then the b7 pentatonic scale, and then we'll learn how to play the scale on one string. We'll also work on improvising using a single string. Finally, we'll practice playing scales in a moveable open position.
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7 videos3 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
This lesson, we'll be working with arpeggios, which means playing the notes in a chord one at a time. We'll be learning and practicing major, minor, diminished, and augmented arpeggiated chords.
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6 videos7 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
In this lesson, we'll begin practicing chords and popular chord progressions. We'll also begin practicing these progressions with both open and barre chords.
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6 videos5 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
In this final lesson, we will focus on arpeggiated chords and playing them in different rhythms. We will also practice blues scales and finally, put all of these aspects together.
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7 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review
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Reviewed on Oct 24, 2020
It was really an amazing journey of learning guitar with berklee college of music... thank you so much for providing this online ..really helped me a lot..
Reviewed on Aug 16, 2020
Excellent, very helpful, the instructor was fantastic, I learned a lot. Would appreciate more examples of putting it all together. I enjoyed the process, even with my busy schedule.
Reviewed on May 18, 2020
I'm playing guitar with no formal education and I found this lesson very helpful, inspiring and fun.
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