You’ve got the guitar basics down: You can strum your guitar and play a few of your favorite songs, but you’re ready to take the tunes to the next level. In Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions you’ll expand your knowledge of scales, chord fingerings, and common chord progressions. You’ll also learn important skills for soloing, creating melodies, and adding depth and dimension to your guitar playing.
This course is part of the How to Play Guitar Specialization
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Learners should complete "Guitar for Beginners" before enrolling in this course.
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Play scales in a moveable open position
Identify and play major, minor, diminished, and augmented arpeggios
Add rhythmic timing to arpeggios and strumming to enhance your playing
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 Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions!
Scales
Arpeggios
Chords and Progressions
Rhythm
Reviews
- 5 stars77.50%
- 4 stars17.88%
- 3 stars2.16%
- 2 stars1.62%
- 1 star0.81%
TOP REVIEWS FROM GUITAR SCALES AND CHORD PROGRESSIONS
It was really an amazing journey of learning guitar with berklee college of music... thank you so much for providing this online ..really helped me a lot..
Good, interesting topic, but it does not go deep on anything so I was visiting Youtube after every time I finished a chapter in this course.
Really helped me learn Basic scales, Arpeggios and some melodious strumming patterns.
I appreciate how the instructor put so much effort to teach us. Thank you.
A great course which has something to offer to guitar players of all levels and this course really provides a strong foundation to your scales and chord progressions and a lot more.
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