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Lead Guitar Beginners Level 1

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Introduction

Take the lead!

Welcome to our Lead Guitar Beginners Level One course! If you're a beginner and love the idea of playing lead guitar then this is the course for you. Just as with all of our level one beginner courses, our primary focus is to build the key foundations that you can rapidly build on as you progress. We start from scratch with the key techniques that will allow you to build strength and accuracy with both hands whilst learning cool exercises that will help you monitor your progress and increase your speed and strength very quickly.

We start from scratch with the key techniques that will allow you to build strength and accuracy and increase your speed

Dan Holton

Learn the ultimate rock scale

With the basics covered we move on to learning your first scales including the ultimate rock scale (better known as the pentatonic scale) and using it to play your first riffs and solos. We show you how to play a variety of bends slides hammer-ons and pull-offs and then how to apply them to your new scale shapes so that you can play the solos and even improvise your own. By the end of the course you will fundamentally understand how lead guitar playing works and be ready to move on to level two!

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22 HD videos

Full lesson notes

Backing tracks

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Interactive guitar tab

This course includes the following 4 units:

Unit 1

Essentials Part 1

During these 5 lessons we will be taking you through how to read tab, learning your first exercises, developing perfect technique and much more. Think of this first 5 lessons as the foundation that will allow you to play any solo's and riffs you want!

Lesson 11234 Spider Exercise

Lesson 2Major Scale

Lesson 3Good Technique

Lesson 4Notes On The Neck

Lesson 5Moving Shapes

Unit 2

Essentials Part 2

During the next 5 lessons we will be focusing on the Pentatonic scale. We will not only be learning the shape, but also learning how to play major and minor as well as playing in any key so that you can start improvising!

Lesson 1Pentatonic Shape 1

Lesson 2What Are Keys?

Lesson 3Minor Pentatonic

Lesson 4Major Pentatonic

Lesson 5Improvising

Unit 3

Essentials Part 3

We will be ramping up the difficulty level by learning soloing techniques, how to riff and even attempt your very first full guitar solo! There is plenty to absorb in this next set of lessons, so make sure you set aside some quality practice time!

Lesson 11324 Spider Exercise

Lesson 2Legato

Lesson 3"American Lady" Part 1

Lesson 4"American Lady" Part 2

Lesson 5Slides

Lesson 6Your First Solo

Unit 4

Essentials Part 4

In this final week for the essentials course, we will be developing your pentatonic playing even further by adding bends, looking at another solo using all the techniques you have learnt so far, and finally learning a Foo Fighters style rock song!

Lesson 1Building Speed

Lesson 2Bends

Lesson 3Bends Solo

Lesson 4"Foo Rock"

Lesson 5"Foo Rock" Part 1

Lesson 6"Foo Rock" Part 2

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