Rock Your Way to Guitar Mastery with "Rock Guitar for Beginners," an exciting online course exclusively available on TrueFire, produced in collaboration with JamPlay. Whether you're a complete novice or have some basic guitar skills, this course is your ultimate guide to unleashing the power of rock guitar and playing your favorite rock songs with confidence.
Led by expert instructors Callum Bair, "Rock Guitar for Beginners" offers a comprehensive curriculum designed to fast-track your journey to becoming a rock guitarist. With 44 dynamic lessons, you'll learn essential techniques, power chords, iconic riffs, and rock rhythm patterns that will have you rocking out in no time.
From classic rock anthems to modern rock hits, this course covers a wide range of rock styles and iconic guitar playing techniques. You'll master palm muting, alternate picking, string bending, and much more. Through practical examples, jam tracks, and play-along exercises, you'll develop a solid foundation in rock guitar and gain the skills to play with precision, power, and attitude.
TrueFire's cutting-edge learning platform ensures an immersive and engaging experience. High-definition video lessons, on-screen tablature, and downloadable practice materials make it easy to follow along and reinforce your understanding of each concept. You'll have the flexibility to learn at your own pace, replay lessons as needed, and track your progress as you grow into a rock guitar virtuoso.
Rock the stage with "Rock Guitar for Beginners." Unleash your inner rockstar, master the essential techniques of rock guitar, and ignite the crowd with your electrifying solos and powerful riffs. Enroll now and join the ranks of legendary rock guitarists.
What you'll learn
Play two-finger power chord shape (root on 6th string, fifth on 5th string)
Execute smooth transitions between major chords using anchor points
Play a simple melodic solo over chord changes
Understand how to combine major scale and minor pentatonic in a solo
Understand why guitar has multiple positions for same notes
Callum Bair introduces us to "Rock Guitar for Beginners"!
2Getting to Know Your Guitar
For our first lesson, Callum gives us a complete walkthrough of the different parts of our guitar.
3String Names and Tuning
Now that we have familiarized ourselves with our guitar, let's talk about the string names and how to correctly tune!
4Putting Your Hands on the Guitar
For this lesson, Callum guides us through how to properly pick and how to begin playing notes on our guitar!
5Reading Tablature and Basic Notation
Now we have the fundamentals of how to play certain notes, let's look at how to read tablature.
6Your First Riff!
In this lesson, Callum walks us through our first riff!
7The Caterpillar Exercise
Now that we have our first riff under our fingers let's now learn a technical exercise that will help us learn how our picking hand and our fretting hand communicate.