Lesson 42 of 43GuitarIntermediate

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43 lessons (3h 34m) · 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. Geek
  2:28
- 02. Rollin
  Free lesson
  2:39
- 03. Do Balanco
  2:30
- 04. Tiberius
  2:30
- 05. Smack Talk
  2:26
- 06. Slam Dunk Funk
  2:39
- 01. Geek
  13:47
- 02. Rollin
  14:08
- 03. Do Balanco
  10:17
- 04. Tiberius
  13:35
- 05. Smack Talk
  10:06
- 06. Slam Dunk Funk
  14:53
- 01. Intro to technical exercises
  2:44
- 02. Rob Luft on how to practice exercises
  3:31
- 03. Group A: Scales
  5:16
- 04. Group B: Arpeggios
  1:18
- 05. Group C: Chords
  0:41
- 01. Alternate picking
  3:08
- 02. Legato (hammer-ons & pull-offs)
  5:29
- 03. Barre chords
  6:15
- 04. Vibrato
  7:37
- 05. Advanced Legato
  5:45
- 06. Natural harmonics
  3:16
- 07. Pinched harmonics
  5:01
- 08. String bending
  8:59
- 09. Tapping
  6:39
- 01. Intro to Approaches to improvisation
  1:00
- 02. Improvising using chord tones
  10:18
- 03. Recap on chord tones
  4:07
- 04. Embelleshing a melody
  5:36
- 05. Challenge: Submit your melody
  0:26
- 06. 7th chords
  6:38
- 07. Composing your solo
  8:53
- 08. Rhythm guitar and embellishments
  5:40
- 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.