These videos were created by professional guitarist and author James Akers to accompany his book “Guitar Exam Exercise Book”. The book is not needed when watching these videos as the content is universal regardless of subject matter. You’ll find these five videos a great help in ensuring that you have a strong base technique for playing everything from folk/traditional to classical guitar by one of the best in the business.
What Will You Learn?
- Learning to correctly execute pima across open strings.
- How to correctly address the guitar strings with the left hand when playing arpeggios.
- How to correctly play half barre with respect to chords.
- Technical explanation and demonstration of hammer-ons and pull-offs.
- Explanation in playing 3 note chords and how the right hand interacts with the strings.
Material Includes
- Five HD video lessons comprising just under 14 minutes of video.
- Accompanying PDFs.
- Full lifetime access.
- Access on mobile and TV.
- We rate this course as needing approximately 2 hours of work to complete depending on a player’s prior knowledge, technical ability and practice.
Requirements
- This is a free course which is available for free and GMI Premium subscribers.
- To undertake this course need to be registered and logged in to at least a free account.
Audience
- This course is targeted at any guitarist who can at least play a scale and pick confidently. Having a knowledge of relative major and minor chord theory would be a great help, but is not a requirement.
