HOW TO PLAY MUSIC ON THE GUITAR - COURSE 1
More than just another beginner guitar course — it’s your gateway to playing your music with true confidence, artistry, and purpose.
🎸A self-directed course for those brand new to guitar playing
🎸Six focused lessons that you can master in a week each
🎸Builds a foundation for your music to grow
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WHY this is the only course you want:
1. Your Success: Built In
Lessons are designed for you to master them in about a week. When you read and hear them, they seem easy; when you play them, they seem doable; when you achieve them, it feels natural and inevitable. You create dozens of tiny success stories, adding up to your being a real guitar player.
2. Your Future Success: Established
Music is big. Guitar playing is big. This course builds your foundational knowledge and skills; it enables your next step, and your next. The breadth and depth of the world’s modern music, its history back a thousand years, and cherry-picked features of technology and education theory are all applied here to benefit you.
3. Your Musical Life, Your Call
I recognize your love for music is lifelong. I wrote this course to help you fit your music playing into your life, for good. The course is self-paced, self-evaluated. It creates opportunities for you to make your own musical choices. It gives you the tools to achieve those decisions. Begin this course and you become an artist, immediately, by design.
4. Your Teacher, On Call
Courses, consults & coaching, individual lessons, online knowledge hub, webinars, community - Songdog Music will never stop evolving to meet the needs of your musical journey …. even the ones you are unaware of yet.
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“HOW TO PLAY MUSIC ON THE GUITAR - COURSE 1”
WHY does this title seem so wordy??
- Because I insisted on putting the word “music” first.
- Because playing music is about thinking the way we musicians think.
- Realize that, and you realize that the guitar is simply the tool that you have chosen with which to create your music.
MUSIC HITS US LIKE A MAGICAL FORCE
But that magic rests on some factual elements that you can learn quite logically.
Let me share with you the perspectives used in this course, they will open up for you the world of music.
You will learn using these universal skill sets we all possess
1. Logic/science-based terminology and concepts
Can you follow a recipe? Directions from your Maps app? Any process at all??
Then you can learn music:
What do we call a musical sound? A note, it has a pitch, a volume, and a duration.
What do we call a musical silence? A rest, it has a pitch (zero!), a volume (also zero!), and a duration.
See? We just start off by defining the elements of music and guitar; and we build from there.
2. Athletics/sports-based training for the physical skills of playing an instrument
Stick your Right Thumb on the top string; set the angle so that your thumb points downward; push; land on the next lower string.
Right.
But those ‘easy’ directions are like telling someone how to ride a bike, or how to use the ‘home row’ on a computer keyboard. Any physical activity needs repetition for you to master it.
I structure these tasks to be very small, so you can focus, succeed in each one, move on.
3. English language-based approach to the communicative and creative aspects of playing music
How many ‘love songs’ can you think of, right off the top of your head?
A lot, right? There are many, many ways to say the same thing. That infinite variety is why we never get tired of music. It’s all about the expression of an idea or feeling.
Art, with a capital A, is simply choosing how you wish to express a thing, right now, today. And I show you how to do that - right now, not some time in the abstract future when you are ‘good enough’.
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THE HOW
Innovative multi-media design leverages your device as an advanced learning tool:
- Written text - clear definitions, explanations, paced for quick understanding
- Demo videos - not merely the techniques, also the how, the why, and what stumbles you’re likely to encounter and how to move past them
- Songs & exercises - quick, doable, written out so they hold still for you
- Play-along videos - for both the songs and the exercises, so you know how it should sound and look, and have a model to base your playing on
- “Have You Got It” an informal rubric for self assessment for each lesson
THE WHAT
- SIX songs (Fun ones! Not telling you now, it’s a surprise!)
- YOUR songs. You will actually learn how to make up stuff on your guitar!
- 13 - ish foundational techniques. All the stuff about where to put your fingers.
- A Lot - of perspective on what music is and how we think about it and manipulate it.
- 11 - ish methods for learning and practicing music. My job is to make my self obsolete; I want you to be able to do it all on your own.
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