Udemy 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.

Published: 8/2023
Format: MP4
Video: h264, 1280x720
Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English
Duration: 2h 9m