Use the ‘Take this course‘ button to join the course for 6 months. I have deliberately kept it at an entry level fee so that as many interested can join and try guitar playing.
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If you have found my youtube tutorials useful, the investment is a no-brainer – you have already benefitted from and know my work.
If you are interested in playing Indian music on the guitar, want to start learning the guitar while playing towards music that really matters to you, interested you in playing guitar, the music you finally want to play, start with this course.
Instead of random, abstract, generic exercises that keep you stuck in minimal incremental skill growth loops, this course is optimized towards learning the necessary fundamentals that matter. These basics will form the foundation for you to later start practicing slides etc when playing Indian music.
Learn sustained and connected playing, body and arm best practices, beginner exercises for fingering and phrasing development, along with best practices regardless of the genre you want to play.
Go through the full list of videos (maybe updated and added over time) to see how you can use this course for your regular practice.
From where you are skillwise, to your relevant musical goals.
- smooth transitions using underlying mechanics
- basic rhythms
- finger change priority to prevent stuck chord change
- common finger and finger group movement
- automation of rhythm hand
- conscious playing connecting the chord shapes to the root notes
- pattern based understanding of chords – how you need to practice only 3 chords to generate all the other chords. Don’t waste your time learning different chords when they are all the same pattern.
- basic chord theory. the patterns on paper
If you are just beginning to play chords, use this resource to get the best practices right.
Go through each video and do the given exercises one by one, while understanding the concepts. Different levels of exercises are given. Any exercise done is a mini win.
(If you know anyone who wants to start playing chords on the guitar, please refer them to this resource. They can get access to this and all other courses as part of the ragacourses subscription at ragacourses.com)