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About Rockschool exams

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What the Rockschool graded guitar exams involve and how working towards one can focus your practice on the pieces in this Grade 7 course.

For more information on taking your Rockschool grade exam, visit https://www.rslawards.com

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44 lessons (3h 49m) · 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. The Pants Era
  2:56
- 02. Soma
  2:46
- 03. Broadway and 9th
  3:00
- 04. Chaos Pad
  3:00
- 05. Nachez Trace
  2:53
- 06. Times Square
  3:11
- 01. The Pants Era
  20:27
- 02. Soma
  15:49
- 03. Broadway and 9th
  9:21
- 04. Chaos Pad
  14:50
- 05. Natchez Trace
  11:17
- 06. Times Square
  11:40
- 01. Intro to technical exercises
  2:44
- 02. Rob Luft on how to practice exercises
  3:31
- 03. Group A: Scales and Modes
  2:30
- 04. Group B: Arpeggios
  1:35
- 05. Group C: Chords
  1:44
- 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. Embelleshing a melody
  5:36
- 03. Challenge: Submit your melody
  0:26
- 04. 7th chords
  6:38
- 05. Composing your solo
  8:53
- 06. Further extensions and sus chords
  4:19
- 07. Comping on two different music styles
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  8:36
- 08. Mixing Rhythmic and Melodic comping
  4:24
- 09. Rhythmic improv & comping
  9:55
- 01. Sight reading tips
  1:51
- 01. Course outro
  0:32
- 02. About Rockschool exams
  You are here
  0:30
- 03. Preparing for your Rockschool exam
  1:28

Lesson transcript

Introduction to the Course

This course has been based around the Rock School syllabus.

About Rock School

If you're unfamiliar with Rock School, they offer graded exams on everything that you've learned in this course.

Benefits of Taking an Exam

An exam can be a great way of really focusing your mind.
It gives you something to work towards, motivating you to put in the practice.
It's well worth doing!
Achieving a top mark can be an incredibly rewarding experience.

For more information on how to book the exams, check out the link below.

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