Electric Guitar Basics

Electric Guitar Lessons For Beginners – Gear, Tuning, Chords, Riffs, Songs, Scales, Strumming and Songwriting.

What you'll learn

Gear You Will Need

Electric Guitar Anatomy

How to Hold Your Electric Guitar and Pick

How to Tune Your Electric Guitar

How to Fret Notes

Plugging In and Setting Your Tone

How to Read Tablature

Warm Up Exercises

How to Play 5 Guitar Riffs

How Pitch Works on the Guitar

How to Read Chord Diagrams

5 Essential Chords: Em, D, C, G, Am

Strumming, Beats and Rhythm

How to Play Two Songs

What 4/4 Time Means

Your First Scales

How to Write Your Own Music

Lead Guitar Examples

Tips, Tricks & Resources

Requirements

No previous experience or skills needed. You'll learn everything you need to know.

Access to an electric guitar, guitar amplifier, instrument cable and a tuner (you can use a free tuning app for your phone or tablet) is required.

Description

In this class, I guide you through the essentials of learning to play the electric guitar. The course starts with learning about what gear you’ll need and ends with learning how to write your own music on guitar.This class is designed for absolute beginners with no prior experience playing electric guitar as well as for folks wanting to brush up on the basics of the instrument.If you’ve been wanting to learn how to play electric guitar but have been putting it off because you’re not sure how to get started, then this class is for you. The goal of this class is to get you playing electric guitar as quickly as possible. Once you complete this course, you’ll have the basics in place so that you can start learning how to play your favorite songs and riffs and even create your own music.Included in this class are many downloadable resources: tips for tuning your guitar, warm up exercises, chord diagrams, scales and sheet music, as well as an audio recording for you to play along with.In order to take this class, you’ll need an electric guitar, guitar amplifier, instrument cable and a tuner (you can use a free tuning app for your phone or tablet).In this course, you'll learn:Gear You Will NeedElectric Guitar AnatomyHow to Hold Your Electric Guitar and PickHow to Tune Your Electric GuitarHow to Fret NotesPlugging In and Setting Your ToneHow to Read TablatureWarm Up ExercisesHow to Play 5 Guitar RiffsHow Pitch Works on the GuitarHow to Read Chord Diagrams5 Essential Chords: Em, D, C, G, AmStrumming, Beats and RhythmHow to Play Two SongsWhat 4/4 Time MeansYour First ScalesHow to Write Your Own MusicLead Guitar ExamplesTips, Tricks & ResourcesI also provide a backing track for you to jam along with me during one of the video lessons, as well as a downloadable mp3 version of it. This is an opportunity for you to have fun and jam!I would love to hear from you and am happy to answer any questions, so please feel free to reach out to me by sending me a message here on Udemy.I hope that this class inspires you to learn more about how to play guitar and create music. I have other classes available here on Udemy and suggest "Create a Chord Progression on Guitar (Major Key)" to continue your learning.

Overview

Section 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Class Project

Lecture 3 Gear You Will Need

Lecture 4 Electric Guitar Anatomy

Lecture 5 Hold Your Guitar and Pick

Lecture 6 How to Tune Your Guitar

Lecture 7 How to Fret Notes

Lecture 8 Plug In and Set Your Tone

Lecture 9 How to Read Tablature

Section 2: First Warm Up Exercises, Riffs & Chords

Lecture 10 Warm Up Exercises 1 & 2

Lecture 11 Riff 1

Lecture 12 How Pitch Works

Lecture 13 Riff 2

Lecture 14 Riff 3

Lecture 15 Reading Chord Diagrams

Lecture 16 Introduction to Chords

Lecture 17 E Minor Chord

Lecture 18 D Chord

Lecture 19 C Chord

Lecture 20 G Chord

Section 3: Strumming, Timing and Rhythm

Lecture 21 Strumming and Rhythm

Lecture 22 Reading Tab with Rhythm

Lecture 23 Song 1

Lecture 24 Song 2

Lecture 25 4/4 Time

Lecture 26 A Minor Chord

Section 4: Scales

Lecture 27 E Minor Pentatonic Scale 1

Lecture 28 E Minor Pentatonic Scale 2

Section 5: Songwriting - Creating Your Own Music

Lecture 29 Create Your Own Music

Lecture 30 Lead Guitar Example

Lecture 31 Backing Track Tips

Lecture 32 Jam with Me

Section 6: Conclusion

Lecture 33 Riff 4

Lecture 34 Riff 5

Lecture 35 Final Thoughts

This class is designed for absolute beginners with no prior experience playing electric guitar as well as for folks wanting to brush up on the basics of the instrument.