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Beginner's Corner

About the Beginner's Corner series


Instructor: Bear Rose

Difficulty: 1-2 (of 10)

Focus: Instructor Bear shows you all the secrets behind chords & scales - from a complete beginner perspective. Step by step, you will understand simple concepts that are the foundation of some of the greatest songs in the world.
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    Beginner's Corner 12: Strumming & Rhythm

    by Bear Rose

    A basic strumming pattern in a ballad style to improve your strumming, hand rhythm, and feel

    Tags: strumming, right hand, rhyhtm, poison,...
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    Beginner's Corner 13: C Major Scale

    by Bear Rose

    A simple instrumental song that uses the C Major scale in a linear fashion in order to help you learn the major scale and internalize it.

    Tags: beginners corner, major scale, beginner solo
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    Beginner's Corner 14: Minor Pentatonic Scale

    by Bear Rose

    We continue on our journey to guitar greatness by visiting our second scale: the Minor Pentatonic scale. In this lesson we will learn the main shape of the minor pentatonic scale, and also learn to play it in a musical way while we memorize it.

    Tags: minor pentatonic, scale, theory, beginner,...
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    Beginner's Corner 15: A Minor Scale

    by Bear Rose

    Moving on in our journey through the first scales, we're learning the full Minor Scale. This takes our knowledge from the minor pentatonic scale and adds a few notes to make it a complete minor scale.

    Tags: minor, scale, theory, beginner
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    Beginner's Corner 16: Slash Chords

    by Bear Rose

    Expand your chord vocabulary! Venturing out from basic chords, we're going to tackle slash chords and discover how they can improve your chord playing and sounds!

    Tags: slash, chords, strumming, beginner, easy
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    Beginner's Corner 17: Slash Chords 2

    by Bear Rose

    Continuing to diversify our chord knowledge, we are going to learn another way to use slash chords! Today we'll learn how to take a few basic shapes and move them up and down the neck while also utilizing open strings in our slash chords.

    Tags: slash, chords, strumming, beginner, easy
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    Beginner's Corner 18: Slash Chords 3

    by Bear Rose

    Continuing to diversify our chord knowledge, we are going to learn another way to use slash chords! Today we'll learn about how we can use slash chords to form major 7th and minor 7th chords, as well as use some of the other shapes we've already learned.

    Tags: slash, chords, strumming, beginner, easy
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    Beginner's Corner 19: Chords Theory

    by Bear Rose

    Taking a detour from the normal style of lessons here on GMC, we are diving into some deep beginner theory: How chords are formed and why? Come with me as I explain this and answer other questions about chord formations and structure!

    Tags: beginners, corner, chord, formation, theory
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    Beginner's Corner 20: Beginner Solo

    by Bear Rose

    Taking a little detour from usual learning of chords and rhythm techniques, we are going to learn a beginner level solo in D major. We'll be drawing from knowledge of the major scale and focusing on melody!

    Tags: beginner, corner, solo, melody, easy,...
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    Beginner's Corner 21: String Bending

    by Bear Rose

    As we progress through our journey as beginning guitarists, we turn our attention to string bending for this lesson. Keep in mind that even though this lesson is focused on beginners, those who are more advanced would do well to practice this lesson to improve the precision of bending strings to the correct pitch.

    Tags: beginner, corner, solo, melody, string...
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    Beginner's Corner 22: Hammer-On

    by Bear Rose

    Let's look at hammer-ons! If you're interested in learning to play with some killer legato, this is the place to start. Hammer-ons are the first half of legato. We'll progress from absolute beginner to more advanced beginner through this lesson and learn some fun licks along the way!

    Tags: hammer-on, hammer-ons, legato, beginners...