Acoustic Pop Guitar Course
Interested to play guitar of your favourite pop songs, but never got around to actually getting started? Join our Acoustic Pop Guitar Course, designed mainly for adults and youths. The easy-to-follow format gives you a solid music education while letting you play songs right away.
Lessons are conducted on a weekly basis:
30 minutes / 45 minutes / 60 minutes for Individual class
Through this course, the student will learn:
Beginner's level:
Pre-Intermediate level:
Intermediate level:
Pre-Advanced level:
Advanced level
Estimated time of completion for each level is 6 months.
Learn 2 Play Music Academy also offers Graded Acoustic Guitar examinations of Rockschool Limited (RSL). Rockschool qualifications are fully accredited by every UK regulatory body. They also work with some of the best music and comtemporary art schools, colleges and institutions across the work.
Lessons are conducted on a weekly basis:
30 minutes / 45 minutes / 60 minutes for Individual class
Through this course, the student will learn:
Beginner's level:
- Parts of the guitar
- Tuning of the guitar
- Reading of chord charts
- Basic chords in the key of G (G, Am, C, D, Em)
- Reading of tablature
- Simple melodies
- Basic music theory (Musical notes, time signature, music key, major and minor chords)
- Basic strumming patterns
- Upstroke (strumming)
- Basic rhythm training (Whole, half, quarter and eighth notes)
Pre-Intermediate level:
- Learning chords in different keys
- Introduction to barre chords
- Melody lines
- Alternate picking
- Learning songs (of student's choice)
- Introduction to technique (hammer on, pull off, slide, double stops, shuffling)
- Music theory (Chord construction, chord inversions, pentatonic scale)
- Pentatonic scale in the 1st position
- Power chords
- Triads
Intermediate level:
- Learning chords in all keys
- Implementing techniques into a song
- Barre chords for the 6th and 5th string
- Music theory (Chord scale harmony, Chord extensions, scales)
- Learning songs (of student's choice)
- Pentatonic scales in 3 positions
- Major and natural minor scale in the 1st position
- Arpeggiated chords
Pre-Advanced level:
- Chord extensions
- Create strumming patterns to suit a song
- Pentatonic scale in all 5 positions
- Arpeggios
- String skipping
- Advanced techniques
- Riffs and licks
- Major and natural minor scales in 3 positions
- Introduction to improvisation using the pentatonic, major and minor scales
- Learning songs (of student's choice)
- Advanced techniques (Harmonics, bending)
Advanced level
- Advanced improvisation
- Stylistic studies (Student's preferred style)
- Advanced chord extensions
- Major and natural minor scale in all 5 positions
- Harmonic minor scale
- Application of advanced techniques
- Chord substitutions
- Learning songs (of student's choice)
Estimated time of completion for each level is 6 months.
Learn 2 Play Music Academy also offers Graded Acoustic Guitar examinations of Rockschool Limited (RSL). Rockschool qualifications are fully accredited by every UK regulatory body. They also work with some of the best music and comtemporary art schools, colleges and institutions across the work.