One on One Online Guitar Classes

• Discover your instrument, starting with posture and fingering techniques. Our focus is to achieve clarity and to get the player comfortable with their instrument. 
• Fun tunes and finger exercises: Develop the agility and dexterity you need to play simple tunes clearly. 
• C major open scale
• Open chords 
• Introduction to 2 time signatures and basic strumming with patterns
• Songs appropriate for beginner level 1
• Fundamental music theory understanding; learning how the same is applied to the guitar.
• Establishing and understanding a strong practice ethic
• Tune your guitar with a tuner (standard tuning) 
• Care and maintenance of your instrument and gear 

• Level 2 songs that feature new rhythm patterns and time signatures
• Seventh chords and other open chords in various other positions
• Introduction to power chords and barre chords
• Ear Training: Learn to pick up melodies & harmonies by ear and accompany yourself on the guitar.
• Improvise: With the use of practical alternative concepts from our Sing, Move and Play courses, we help students create and improvise their own tunes.
• Theory/Reading: In-depth understanding of tones and semitones. 
• Major and minor scales in the first position
• Learn some licks and riffs
• Tune your guitar with a tuner and by ear

Here’s what you can expect to gain as you progress further in our guitar classes:

• Learn pop/rock music theory and TABS; Learn and understand scale formation/chord study 
• Engage in aural listening activities. Develop the functional knowledge to apply all that is learnt in a jam! 
• Ear Training: tonic, subdominant and dominant chord grouping
• Learn songs suitable for intermediate level one 
• Song Analysis:  Learn to accompany songs, sing on key and in harmony, transcribe songs from different styles and genres. 
• How to collaborate and work creatively with other musicians.
• Major and minor scales, diatonic and pentatonic scales in first and second position. Scales are played in various patterns and tempos.
• Improvisation with scales
• CAGED system

• 12 Bar blues
• Jamming and improvisation on the need for the 12 bar blues
• Songs appropriate for level two
• Transposition
• Playing by ear
• Ornamentation and dynamics
• Improvisation
• Funk rhythm playing.
• Number system and diatonic harmony.
• Introduction to modes
• Introduction to fingerstyle 

After a brief overview of the fundamental theory of pop-rock and other practical aspects, students zero down on the concepts mentioned below and explore various styles of fusion. These advanced guitar classes also provide an introduction to jazz.

• Introduction to 2-5-1. 
• Popular jazz songs
• Fingerstyle and ultimate chords
• Arpeggios and harmony ear training. 
• Solo improvisation on 2-5-1. 
• Soloing over secondary dominant chords. 
• Working on minor 2-5-1. 
• Triads on the fretboard using 3 string sets. 
• Soloing using triads.  
• All Scales on a dominant chord.
• Pentatonics on 2-5-1.
• Alternate tuning