Advanced course
Play freely, soloing and comping: modes, arpeggios, advanced harmony, technique, transcribing and songwriting.
38 15-minute lessons in 8 steps. Each step ends with a practice lesson and a review.
Your course:
Which guitar do you play?
The course adapts: the shared lessons, plus the ones specific to your guitar. You can switch anytime; your progress is kept.
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Start the course1Play any chord in all 5 regions of the neckCompleted
Theme: The whole neck · Review: 0
- Triads and inversions15 minutes a day for a week · Play a triad in its three inversions on three string sets
- The full CAGED system15 minutes a day for a week · Play a major chord in its five CAGED shapes
- Minor CAGED and scales15 minutes a day for a week · Link the minor shapes to the pentatonic positions
- A chart in a single region of the neckPutting it into practice · 15 minutes a day for a few days · Play a chord chart without leaving four frets
2Improvise with the color of a modeCompleted
Theme: Modes in practice · Review: 0
- The Dorian mode15 minutes a day for a week · Improvise in Dorian, bringing out its sixth
- The Mixolydian mode15 minutes a day for a week · Improvise in Mixolydian, bringing out its seventh
- Lydian and Phrygian15 minutes a day for a week · Make Lydian and Phrygian heard
- Modal harmony15 minutes · Recognize a mode by ear
- Three vamps, three modesPutting it into practice · 15 minutes a day for a few days · Improvise over three modes back to back
3Follow the chords note by noteCompleted
Theme: Arpeggios and changes · Review: 0
- Seventh-chord arpeggios15 minutes a day for a week · Play maj7, m7 and 7 arpeggios
- m7♭5 and dim715 minutes · Play m7♭5 and dim7 arpeggios
- Playing over a ii-V-I15 minutes a day for a week · Target the third on every change of a ii-V-I
- An arpeggio soloPutting it into practice · 15 minutes a day for a few days · Improvise a solo that follows every chord
4Play clean and fast to a metronomeCompleted
Theme: Technique · Review: 0
- Strict alternate picking and speed10 minutes a day for several weeks · Play sixteenth notes at 100 with strict alternate picking
- Economy picking and sweeping10 minutes a day for several weeks · Play a scale in economy picking and a swept arpeggio
- Legato10 minutes a day for several weeks · Play a legato phrase with even notes
- Tapping10 minutes a day for a few weeks · Play a steady tapping loop · Electric guitar only
- Percussive fingerstyle10 minutes a day for a few weeks · Play a groove of bass notes and slaps · Acoustic guitar only
- A technical étudePutting it into practice · 10 minutes a day for two weeks · Chain the techniques together in an étude
5Reharmonize a chart with jazz chordsCompleted
Theme: Advanced harmony · Review: 0
- 9th, 11th and 13th chords15 minutes · Play and build 9th, 11th and 13th chords
- Drop 2 and shell voicings15 minutes a day, for a week · Move between shell and drop 2 voicings
- Substitutions15 minutes a day, for a week · Apply three substitutions to a progression
- The harmonic and melodic minor scales15 minutes a day, for a week · Play harmonic and melodic minor in the right place
- Reharmonizing a songPutting it into practice · 15 minutes a day, for a week · Reharmonize and play a progression
6Hold a groove in odd time signaturesCompleted
Theme: Advanced rhythm · Review: 0
- 5/4 and 7/8 time15 minutes a day, for a week · Play in 5/4 and 7/8
- Ghost notes and groove15 minutes a day, for a week · Place ghost notes in a riff
- Polyrhythms15 minutes a day, for a week · Hold 3 against 2
- A piece in 7/8Putting it into practice · 15 minutes a day, for a few days · Hold 7/8 for two minutes
7Transcribe a melody and a solo by earCompleted
Theme: Ear training and transcribing · Review: 0
- Recognizing intervals10 minutes a day, for several weeks · Recognize 8 intervals out of 10
- Recognizing chords and degrees10 minutes a day, for several weeks · Recognize chord types and progressions
- Transcribing a melody15 minutes a day, for a week · Transcribe a simple melody
- Transcribing a solo15 minutes a day, for a week · Transcribe a solo with its techniques
- Transcribing a public-domain tunePutting it into practice · 15 minutes a day, for a week · Transcribe an 8-bar melody and its chords
8Write and arrange your own songCompleted
Theme: Songwriting and arranging · Review: 0
- Riffs and motifs15 minutes a day, for a week · Write a riff and develop it
- Writing a chart and a melody15 minutes a day, for one to two weeks · Write a verse and a chorus with their melody
- Alternate tunings15 minutes a day, for a week · Play in three alternate tunings
- Bottleneck slide15 minutes a day, for a week · Play an in-tune bottleneck phrase
- Your songPutting it into practice · Two to three weeks · Write, arrange and record your song
The other courses
- Beginner course: You’ve never played, or you started on your own without a method.
- Intermediate course: You play songs, but you don’t always know what you’re playing.