What is a Learning Path, and how will it help me?
Don’t know where to start? Our Learning Paths take the most common guitar goals, themes and playing styles and provide a handpicked path of lessons, from our library, to put you on track.
What is a Learning Path?
Don’t know where to start? Our Learning Paths take the most common guitar goals themes and playing styles and provide a handpicked path of lessons, from our library, to put you on the right track.
With a mix of technique and song lessons, you will find each Learning Path serves as a medium term practice routine too! Providing you with the skills you need, when you need them and some songs with which you can instantly apply your new techniques and concepts.
1
Strumming and Easy Chords Primer - Check Your Basics!
Before you dive in, let’s check you have all your basic chords under your fingers and some basic strumming skills. So you can learn our first selection of songs with ease.
2 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 29:30 MINS
Lessons in Part 1 include:
Playing Open Chords
Strumming Patterns
2
Open chord fun strummers
Save yourself time searching for the easiest songs to play on your acoustic! We have selected, from the Licklibrary archives, our favourite easy strum-along songs, by Eagles, The Beatles and more. With quick and easy lessons, you’ll have these songs under your fingers in no time.
6 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 1 HOUR, 31:16 MINS
Lessons in Part 2 include:
Bob Marley: Redemption Song
Counting Crows: Mr Jones
Eagles: Hotel California
Rolling Stones: Angie
The Beatles: You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
Poison: Every Rose Has Its Thorn – Acoustic Parts, Performance & Play-along
3
Your final open chord song, plus all the open chords you will ever need!!
Before you move on from open chords, let’s make sure you have one final song to put everything into practice, plus a round up of all the open chords you will encounter in your everyday playing and thousands of famous songs.
2 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 18:56 MINS
Lessons in Part 3 include:
Cat Stevens: Wild World
Chords in a key plus all the open chords you need
4
Barre Chords and Moveable Chord Primer
Get your fingers ready to tackle a whole new world of songs. With barre chords and simple moveable chords, you can take on a catalogue of chords with only a few core shapes. In this part you will learn how to play the most common barre and simple moveable shapes, used in the majority of pop songs.
3 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 35:41 MINS
Lessons in Part 4 include:
Jamie Humphries – Beginner’s Barre Chords
Moveable Triads
Introducing Barre Chords
5
Songs with Easy Barre and Moveable Chords
Now you have the building blocks, let’s look at some timeless songs which use these essential moveable chords shapes. In parts 5 you will learn how to play a set of easy but progressively challenging songs to help you get these new chords into your skill set.
7 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 2 HOURS, 14:08 MINS
Lessons in Part 5 include:
David Bowie: Space Oddity
REM: Losing My Religion
Jack Johnson: Upside Down
Crowded House: Weather With You
The Jam: That’s Entertainment
Mr Big: To Be With You
The Clash: Should I Stay Or Should I Go – Lessons & Play-along
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