Refine your skills and explore new creative possibilities with our Advanced Level Guitar Classes! This course is designed for experienced guitarists who are comfortable with the fundamentals and eager to take their playing to the next level. Through in-depth exploration of advanced techniques, music theory concepts, and diverse musical styles, you'll gain the knowledge and confidence to express yourself musically like never before.

Key Benefits:

Master Advanced Techniques: Learn complex techniques like sweep picking, tapping, advanced chords and voicings, intricate fingerstyle patterns, and advanced strumming patterns.

Deepen Your Music Theory Knowledge: Gain a comprehensive understanding of advanced music theory concepts like harmony, scales, and modes, and how to apply them to create sophisticated musical ideas.

Explore Diverse Musical Styles: Delve into various musical styles like jazz, blues improvisation, advanced rock techniques, fingerstyle arrangements, and even explore composing your music.

The course will cover:

The Melodic, Harmonic, and Dorian minor scales across 3 octaves: Expand your fingerboard knowledge and explore the unique sounds of these essential scales.

Pentatonic major and minor scales across 3 octaves: Master these versatile scales for improvisation and soloing across the fretboard.

Jazz melodic scales and other modal scales across 3 octaves: Dive into the world of jazz and explore the expressive potential of these advanced scales.

Arpeggios in 2 octaves across any key: Master arpeggios, the building blocks of chords, to enhance your understanding of harmony and soloing. (We'll cover dominant sevenths, too!)

Practical Skills Development: Hone your practical playing skills through:

Reading staff notation only: Train your sight-reading ability to tackle new music with confidence.

Playing along with sheet music: Learn to accurately interpret and perform music notation.

Ear training and identifying chord progressions and dynamics: Develop your musical ear to recognize chords, progressions, and dynamics by ear.

Ear training exercises relevant to the grade: Solidify your ear training skills with targeted exercises designed for advanced players.

Chord Layouts: Deepen your understanding of chords by mastering various voicings of:

Major chords
Minor chords
Broken chords
Seventh chords
Diminished chords