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
Learning Your Note Names On The Neck
Recognising and memorising the names of the notes on your fretboard is the key foundation to making sense of the guitar neck and forming simple connecting cheats for finding your way around. In part 1, we look at developing confidence with note names across the full neck, with manageable steps.
4 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 49:04 MINS
Lessons in Part 1 include:
Note Names – The Basics
Notes On Each String
Finding Notes In Real Time
Fretboard Memorisation
2
Building A Pentatonic Map
The most important guitar scale you will ever learn, so let’s make sure you learn it right! In part 2, we have assembled a collection of in depth lessons in which Licklibrary tutors present their own take on learning, memorising and using the ubiquitous pentatonic scale and its positions, including both minor and major forms.
6 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 1 HOURS, 5:26 MINS
Lessons in Part 2 include:
Pentatonic Fingerings – Alex Machacek
Pentatonic Scale Shapes 1 & 2 – Jamie Humphries
Pentatonic Scale Shapes 3, 4 & 5 – Jamie Humphries
All Five Positions Of The Pentatonic Scale – Sam Bell
Major Pentatonic Scale Positions – Danny Gill
Playing Pentatonics Horizontally – Richard Smith
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Songs Using The CAGED System
If you’ve learnt your neck or chord shapes using the CAGED system, then why not put things into practice with some fun songs? All these famous songs make use of chords and triad shapes taken from the CAGED framework; helping you memorise shapes based on their roots plus getting some famous songs under your fingers while you learn!
Start This Learning PathThe Easiest Guitar Solos in the World
So you’ve learnt your bends, double stops, hammer ons, basic scales and all the good stuff that will take you on your first steps in the world of lead guitar. But what next? Surely there is a collection of famous guitar solos which you can learn to help you on your way? Help is at hand with this Learning Path. We have compiled 12 of the easiest solos from across all our lessons (and perhaps the world!), all basic lead guitar skills & techniques.
Start This Learning Path