Lesson 40 of 41GuitarBeginner

About Rockschool exams

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An overview of Rockschool's graded guitar exams and how working towards one can focus your practice. More at rslawards.com

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41 lessons (2h 51m) · 1 free

- 01. Welcome to the online course
  1:33
- 02. Meet Charlie Griffiths
  1:23
- 03. Meet Rob Luft
  3:02
- 04. Meet Stuart Ryan
  1:52
- 05. Meet Marcus Bonfanti
  2:12
- 01. Cranked
  1:23
- 02. Ska'd for life
  1:29
- 03. Bonecrusher
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  1:18
- 04. Hit It Harder
  1:23
- 05. The Faith Divide
  1:31
- 06. Buzzsaw
  1:26
- 01. Cranked
  7:53
- 02. Ska'd for life
  5:57
- 03. Bonecrusher
  16:43
- 04. Hit It Harder
  10:35
- 05. The Faith Divide
  13:40
- 06. Buzzsaw
  6:57
- 01. Intro to technical exercises
  2:44
- 02. Tech advice (early grades)
  3:10
- 03. Rob Luft on how to practice exercises
  3:28
- 04. Group A: Scales
  1:38
- 05. Group B: Chords
  2:29
- 01. How to hold guitar and pick
  3:47
- 02. Picking hand position
  2:22
- 03. Fretting hand position
  2:44
- 04. Alternate picking
  3:08
- 05. Legato (hammer-ons & pull-offs)
  5:29
- 06. Barre chords
  6:15
- 07. Vibrato
  7:37
- 01. Intro to Approaches to improvisation
  1:00
- 02. Getting started with improvisation
  9:22
- 03. Assignment: Finding chord tones
  4:05
- 04. Improvising using chord tones
  10:18
- 05. Adding rhythmic interest to your solos
  4:11
- 06. Assignment: Improvising over a chord change
  2:52
- 07. Challenge: Submit your improv
  0:24
- 08. Rhythmic improv & comping
  9:55
- 01. Sight reading tips
  1:51
- 01. Course outro
  0:32
- 02. About Rockschool exams
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  0:30
- 03. Preparing for your Rockschool exam
  1:28

Lesson transcript

Introduction to the Rock School Syllabus

This course has been based around the Rock School syllabus. If you're unfamiliar with Rock School, they offer graded exams on everything that you've learned in this course.