Grasp the essentials needed to begin playing acoustic or electric guitar. You'll learn an easy approach to get you playing quickly, through a combination of exploring the instrument, performance technique, and basic music theory.
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Identify string names and numbers and read music notation, tablature, chord block diagrams, and fretboard maps
Practice picking, finger picking, and strumming patterns
Play various chords including major and minor triads, open, barre, and pose chords
Read and play a lead sheet
Skills you will gain
- Tablature
- Music notation
- Guitar scales
- Guitar chords
- Guitar
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Welcome to Introduction to Guitar
Acoustic / Electric Guitar and the Basics
Getting Started: Fundamental Guitar Skills
The Twelve Half Steps and Basic Notation
Scales: Construction and Fingerings
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- 5 stars83.80%
- 4 stars12.52%
- 3 stars1.86%
- 2 stars0.77%
- 1 star1.04%
TOP REVIEWS FROM GUITAR FOR BEGINNERS
Too good,very much informative & extremely knowledgeable, practical course for beginners in Guitars.
Thanks to Berklee College of Music & Coursera for such a wonderful course.
Amazing course for a beginner and someone who want to pick it up after a long break. I would suggest this for people who has sufficient experience with the instrument. The tutor is really amazing.
Very impressed in particular with the pace and technical depth of the instructor's videos that taught me how and why the scales and chords are constructed, rather than just having us memorise them.
Great course! Excellent instructor! I liked the pace, the content, the exercises and the assignments. Allowed me to feel comfortable, yet to stretch a bit more to reach the objective.
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