Essentials Primer Course Free Trial

Course Overview

Welcome to the Essentials Primer for Beginners Course Free Trial.

This is the first of Seventeen Modules packed full of guitar goodness and knowledge. You’ll be amazed at what you can learn just by completing this module.

If you like what you see and hear during when you go through the first module you can purchase the full course really easily by clicking here.

Some lessons contain quizzes to test your knowledge before you move on to the next lesson. These are fun and you can take them as many times as you need to. The passing grade is always 67% because this is in line with the Trinity College of London’s passing grade of 65%.

There is also a checklist at the end of the module that acts as a ‘catch all’. Its purpose is to cover the main points of the module and make you check every box honestly. If you check a box knowingly without understanding you are only doing yourself a disservice and harming yourself moving forward.

• Strum and pick with your fingers
• Recognise the symbols used to name the fingers on both hands
• Name all the strings on the guitar
• Understand two different time signatures
• Count different rhythms, name notes, dotted notes, and their values
• Read tablature and develop an awareness of music notation
• Recognise and understand the effect of sharps and natural signs
• Play eight different chords and a chord progression that is used in thousands of songs
• Play Ode to Joy, Malagueña Facil, and the 12 Bar Blues in A
• Accompany and be accompanied by another player
• Interpret the meaning of several musical symbols and score indications
• Four different scales including G major, A Pentatonic Major, D Pentatonic Minor, and E Pentatonic Major
• Improvise and create your own solos using the A, D and E Pentatonic Scales
• Cope and deal with finger pain, lack of progress, information overload, poor motivation and more
• Use classical guitar techniques for both hands
• Communicate and share your experiences with like-minded people on their own journey’s via the NBN Guitar Community Forum

All exercises and pieces or songs are played at 60bpm (sixty beats per minute). In classical terms this tempo is known as Adagio and it was chosen because it is considered neither too slow nor too fast. Four or three clicks are played at the beginning of every exercise or song to set the tempo and to serve as an introduction before you are required to begin.

I estimate the course to take anywhere from two to four months to complete, based on completing either one or two modules every week.

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House Keeping & Essential Equipment

Below are some tips to help you get through the course in good time with minimal stress and interruptions:

• Get your guitar set up by a luthier or guitar technician
• Buy a metronome, guitar tuner, and a stand
• Keep your guitar in good condition
• Have a spare set of strings handy
• Keep snacks and a drink nearby
• Practice in a quiet tidy space
• Tell people your routine
• Minimise distractions

Let your fingers fly!

Josh

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