Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate

Course details

Once you've mastered the basics of acoustic guitar, you're ready to expand your repertoire and tackle more challenging techniques. Join guitarist Jared Meeker as he guides you through intermediate concepts like soloing patterns and altered tunings in a relaxed, easy-to-follow instructional style. Learn about suspended chords, tuning with harmonics, and slides. Take on a variety of new styles, including acoustic funk, New Orleans grooves, modern Celtic rhythm guitar, bluegrass, and Delta blues. Jared also touches on harmony for writing and arranging, as well as Drop D, Double Drop D, Open G, and Open D tuning. Tune in and take your acoustic guitar skills to the next level.

Learning objectives
Flatpicking arpeggios
Tuning with harmonics
Bending strings and vibrato
Creating a monster funk groove
Blurring the line between rhythm and lead
Mapping the fretboard in boxes
Getting creative with open strings

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Reading music and tablature (TAB)

1. New Colors and Textures

03 - Flatpicking arpeggios
04 - Suspended chords
05 - Add9 chords
06 - Movable dominant 7th chords
07 - Harmonics
08 - Tuning with harmonics
09 - Slides
10 - Bending strings and vibrato

2. New Grooves and Styles

11 - Acoustic funk strumming
12 - Acoustic funk split strumming
13 - Creating a monster funk groove
14 - A taste of swing
15 - The grooves of New Orleans
16 - Modern celtic rhythm guitar
17 - Old-time guitar - The roots of bluegrass
18 - Bluegrass part 1 - Flatpicking a fiddle tune
19 - Bluegrass part 2 - Backup and lead
20 - Delta blues

3. Pentatonic Possibilities

21 - Rule the fretboard in five Notes the major pentatonic scale sliding fingering
22 - Blurring the line between rhythm and lead
23 - The minor pentatonic sliding fingering

4. Mapping the Fretboard in Boxes

24 - The five positions of the minor pentatonic scale
25 - The five positions of the major pentatonic scale
26 - Using the pentatonic scales to play the 8-bar blues

5. Harmony

27 - Major triads up the neck
28 - Minor triads up the neck
29 - Triads in reggae
30 - The five major triad block forms
31 - Harmony for writing and arranging
32 - Double stops

6. Introducing Alternate Tunings

33 - Getting creative with open strings
34 - Drop D tuning
35 - Double drop D tuning
36 - Open G tuning
37 - Open D tuning

Conclusion

38 - Conclusion and credits

Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate

Authors

Jared Meeker