Welcome to my beginner guitar course. This course features some free content including videos, lesson notes, quizzes and exercises, but to use the suggested play along tracks you will need to purchase an LGM Members subscription available here. Hope you enjoy the course, I am adding new lessons every week. To get notified on new lessons or special course offers you can join mailing list here.
Our next lesson will involve practicing picado or rest stroke. Picado is used for melodic passages and scale work. It’s important that the right hand fingers are always walking or alternating. Keep practicing this walking as talked about in lesson 2. Here are some exercises and scales to practice your picado. We will put picado […]
Sheet Music Download / Play-Along Track / Lesson Notes
0:27 Right Hand Technique 3:27 Simple Right Hand Rhythm 4:38 Arpeggio 5:55 Left Hand Technique 6:37 Left Hand Exercise 1 7:20 Left Hand Exercise 2 8:02 LH Exercise 3 8:45 Synchronisation 10:40 Drills Video
It’s important to learn and use the correct sitting and hand positions when playing guitar. Whether you are just starting or trying to improve your playing, it’s a good idea to revisit the basics periodically. Sitting There are a number of possible sitting positions which will work well. You can adopt the classical sitting position […]