Advanced 2 – The Black Run
The Black Run n. (Skiing) skiing an extremely difficult run, suitable for expert skiers.
The Advanced 2 worship guitar course builds on material covered in earlier courses.
The Advanced 2 worship guitar course is designed for those that are committed to playing the guitar and want to push their skills further.
You should be a reasonably experienced and competent guitarist in a variety of styles, be familiar with the chord families in the 5 basic guitar keys – C, G, D, A and E, and have a reasonably solid rhythm technique.
The course is also about finding your own style as a guitarist. We examine some techniques and see how they can be applied to songs. All techniques are illustrated with musical examples and we cover:
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Examining the 5 main guitar keys, illustrated with more complicated songs.
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Cyclical chord patterns – Circles of 5ths and 3rds.
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Building a chord vocabulary – Basic chord types: Major, minor, major 7th, 7th, minor 7th, Augmented, half-diminished, diminished 7th, sus4, sus2, add6, add2.
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More complex chords – chord extensions: 9th and 11ths.
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Playing in various keys without a capo.
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Slash chords.
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More funky and interesting rhythmic patterns – left and right hand funk techniques.
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Transient modulations – songs that temporarily change keys.
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Minor keys – modal and tonal.
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Finger picking patterns and styles. Flat picking and hybrid picking.
23 more complex songs in various styles are added to the repertoire by Amy Grant, Brenton Brown, Brian Doerksen, Andy Piercy.
The objective for the Advanced 2 worship guitar course is to open up some new techniques, give students the freedom to play complex songs in a variety of styles, and to increase confidence as a guitarist in any musical situation.
Advanced 2 – £180.00 (Early bird only £170.00)