Beginner Class: 6-9pm Monday 13th April 2009

Intermediate Class: 6-9pm Tuesday 14th April 2009

Advanced Class: 6-9pm Wednesday 15th April 2009

Held at: Elim Pentecostal Church, First Floor, 47 Lawrence Street, YORK, YO10 7BU

Cost: £30 for one evening, £50 for two evenings, £70 for all three evenings

At the end of the ‘Beginner’ session, you will be able to:

  • Tune your guitar by ear.

  • Hold and play your guitar with correct posture and technique, enabling optimum efficiency and sound generation.

  • Play all major and minor chords in the open position.

  • Perform most simple chord progressions and songs.

At the end of the ‘Intermediate’ session, you will be able to:

  • Determine which chords are in which keys.

  • Play all major 7th, minor 7th, and dominant 7th chords in the open position.

  • Play major or minor chords anywhere on the fingerboard using barre chord shapes.

  • Play the minor pentatonic and blues scales in any key.

  • Improvise a solo in any key.

At the end of the ‘Advanced’ session, you will be able to:

  • Apply the CAGED system to your playing, when using both chords and scales.

  • Extend all known chord shapes to major/minor/dominant 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th chords.

  • Play any major or minor arpeggio.

  • Play the major scale or harmonic minor scale in any key.

  • Use and apply all the above knowledge in order to improvise a solo which follows the chord changes in detail.

  • Perform a ‘ii V I’ progression in any key (major or minor), and improvise a solo over the same.

  • Perform any chord progression using any of the chord types covered during the session.

  • Understand, play and apply all modes of the major scale and their chord progressions.

  • Read basic music notation.

ALL SESSIONS WILL INCORPORATE ELEMENTS BOTH MUSIC THEORY AND A LIVE PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP.

Please call the number on the right in order to book a place in the class.