Adult Beginner Rock Guitar
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Course Structure Adult Beginner Rock Guitar
Each lesson builds on the last, taking you from zero to hero!
As an associate professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, Kevin Barry has taught hundreds of students, from first-time learners to experienced professionals, how to play the guitar and improve their skills. Kevin’s detailed yet approachable method of teaching deeply emphasizes an exploration of the fretboard, right-hand picking and strumming techniques, left-hand fingering and chord structure methods, single-line melody licks, soloing, music theory, and beyond. Kevin has spent decades as both a touring and session guitarist and has supported artists on stage, such as Sara Mclachlan, David Crosby, Bonnie Raitt, and more. In the studio, Kevin has recorded with legendary artists like Roseanne Cash, Ray Lamontagne, Duke Levine, Susan Tedeschi, and beyond. Like most of Berklee’s world-class faculty, Kevin calls Boston, MA his home and has been teaching the “Beginner’s Guide to Rock Guitar” course as part of our Adult Beginner series at ArtistWorks since December 2021.
Introduction
Guitar Basics
Section 1
<span style="font-family:'Lato'; font-size:16px; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:1px; line-height:1.5em;">Learn your first chords, the basics of rhythm and how to music is counted and subdivided, then put it all together to play the 2 chord tune "Tulsa Time".</span>
Section 2
<span style="font-family:'Lato'; font-size:16px; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:1px; line-height:1.5em;">Learn another chord shape and the relationships of chord families, along with practice exercises to help you clean up your sound and several songs using the chords you know.</span>
Section 3
<span style="font-family:'Lato'; font-size:16px; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:1px; line-height:1.5em;">Learn more chords and their musical relationships, muting techniques for both hands to help make a cleaner sound, and use exercises and familiar songs to practice chord changes.</span>
Section 4
<span style="font-family:'Lato'; font-size:16px; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:1px; line-height:1.5em;">Learn the how scales are derived, the difference between major and minor, your first minor chord, along with exercises and songs that integrate them to practice.</span>
Section 5
<span style="font-family:'Lato'; font-size:16px; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:1px; line-height:1.5em;">Learn barre chords to play chords anywhere on the neck, connect chords with melodic notes, power chords, tips for using a capo, new songs and more.</span>
Section 6
<span style="font-family:'Lato'; font-size:16px; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:1px; line-height:1.5em;">This section focuses on single note playing, learn your first full major and pentatonic scales, arpeggios and how to incorporate them into your playing with a song to practice with.</span>
Section 7
<span style="font-family:'Lato'; font-size:16px; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:1px; line-height:1.5em;">Learn expressive techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, string bends, vibrato and harmonics, embellishment using “sus” and dominant 7th chords and new songs to put it all together with.</span>
Section 8
<span style="font-family:'Lato'; font-size:16px; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:1px; line-height:1.5em;">Learn the Blues and Rock connection, the famous 1-4-5 progression, blues shuffle rhythm, the 12 bar blues progression and boogie-woogie forms, and turnarounds and tag endings, songs to practice on and more.</span>
About Adult Beginner Rock Guitar
As an associate professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, Kevin Barry has taught hundreds of students, from first-time learners to experienced professionals, how to play the guitar and improve their skills. Kevin’s detailed yet approachable method of teaching deeply emphasizes an exploration of the fretboard, right-hand picking and strumming techniques, left-hand fingering and chord structure methods, single-line melody licks, soloing, music theory, and beyond. Kevin has spent decades as both a touring and session guitarist and has supported artists on stage, such as Sara Mclachlan, David Crosby, Bonnie Raitt, and more. In the studio, Kevin has recorded with legendary artists like Roseanne Cash, Ray Lamontagne, Duke Levine, Susan Tedeschi, and beyond. Like most of Berklee’s world-class faculty, Kevin calls Boston, MA his home and has been teaching the “Beginner’s Guide to Rock Guitar” course as part of our Adult Beginner series at ArtistWorks since December 2021.
About Kevin Barry
As an associate professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, Kevin Barry has taught hundreds of students, from first-time learners to experienced professionals, how to play the guitar and improve their skills. Kevin’s detailed yet approachable method of teaching deeply emphasizes an exploration of the fretboard, right-hand picking and strumming techniques, left-hand fingering and chord structure methods, single-line melody licks, soloing, music theory, and beyond. Kevin has spent decades as both a touring and session guitarist and has supported artists on stage, such as Sara Mclachlan, David Crosby, Bonnie Raitt, and more. In the studio, Kevin has recorded with legendary artists like Roseanne Cash, Ray Lamontagne, Duke Levine, Susan Tedeschi, and beyond. Like most of Berklee’s world-class faculty, Kevin calls Boston, MA his home and has been teaching the “Beginner’s Guide to Rock Guitar” course as part of our Adult Beginner series at ArtistWorks since December 2021.
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