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Sp8ctre

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...and I'm really looking forward to it!

This one is "Blues Guitar" and I think it will be my favorite because Blues is what I want to play the most!

This is my 7th class with Berklee and while I've learned a lot I still suck! I have one more class after this one. It's "Classic Rock Guitar" which should also be quite fun!

Wish me luck!

Here is the breakdown of the next 12 weeks...

Syllabus

Lesson 1 - Playing the Blues in E

Lesson 2 - Blues in E—Varying the Feel, Minor Pentatonic Scales, and 8-Bar Blues

Lesson 3 - Slow Blues with Sliding 9th Chords, Pentatonic Scales Part 2, and String Bends

Lesson 4 - T-Bone Style Blues with Sliding 9th Chords, and Chicago Shuffles

Lesson 5 - Flat Tire/Jump Chords and Feel, with T-Bone Walker's Soloing Style and Influences

Lesson 6 - Minor Blues, Rhythm Guitar Variations, and Call Response Techniques

Lesson 7 - Playing in the Pocket, and Magic Sam Style Blues

Lesson 8 - Basic Slide Techniques and Open Tunings: Elmore James

Lesson 9 - Slide in G Tuning: Son House, Muddy Waters, and John Lee Hooker Styles

Lesson 10 - Blues Rock and Gospel Blues

Lesson 11 - Jazz Blues: Kenny Burrell, Comping Range, and Rhythm Guitar Along the Neck

Lesson 12 - More Jazz Blues
 
...and for the curious, here is the Classic Rock Syllabus. After these two classes I will be awarded a certificate that I will have to hide until I can play at least one song through
from the beginning to the end!

Way to much Clapton for me...

Syllabus

Lesson 1 - The Minor Pentatonic Scale, Basic Solo Technique, and the Blues Influence on Classic Rock

Lesson 2 - Eric Clapton: Blues Breakers through Cream

Lesson 3 - Eric Clapton: Derek and the Dominos and Solo Work

Lesson 4 - Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin

Lesson 5 - Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin—Open Tunings and Acoustic Work

Lesson 6 - The Allman Brothers and the Major Pentatonic Scale

Lesson 7 - Modes for the Rock Guitarist

Lesson 8 - David Gilmour and Pink Floyd

Lesson 9 - Jeff Beck

Lesson 10 - Jimi Hendrix

Lesson 11 - Jimi Hendrix

Lesson 12 - Modern Masters
 
Sp8ctre said:
...and for the curious, here is the Classic Rock Syllabus. After these two classes I will be awarded a certificate that I will have to hide until I can play at least one song through
from the beginning to the end!

Way to much Clapton for me...

Syllabus

Lesson 1 - The Minor Pentatonic Scale, Basic Solo Technique, and the Blues Influence on Classic Rock

Lesson 2 - Eric Clapton: Blues Breakers through Cream

Lesson 3 - Eric Clapton: Derek and the Dominos and Solo Work

Lesson 4 - Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin

Lesson 5 - Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin—Open Tunings and Acoustic Work

Lesson 6 - The Allman Brothers and the Major Pentatonic Scale

Lesson 7 - Modes for the Rock Guitarist

Lesson 8 - David Gilmour and Pink Floyd

Lesson 9 - Jeff Beck

Lesson 10 - Jimi Hendrix

Lesson 11 - Jimi Hendrix

Lesson 12 - Modern Masters
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I'm envious!!!!

This is the only music classroom I have ever known...

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Sp8ctre said:
...and I'm really looking forward to it!

This one is "Blues Guitar" and I think it will be my favorite because Blues is what I want to play the most!

This is my 7th class with Berklee and while I've learned a lot I still suck! I have one more class after this one. It's "Classic Rock Guitar" which should also be quite fun!

Wish me luck!

Here is the breakdown of the next 12 weeks...

Syllabus

Lesson 1 - Playing the Blues in E

Lesson 2 - Blues in E—Varying the Feel, Minor Pentatonic Scales, and 8-Bar Blues

Lesson 3 - Slow Blues with Sliding 9th Chords, Pentatonic Scales Part 2, and String Bends

Lesson 4 - T-Bone Style Blues with Sliding 9th Chords, and Chicago Shuffles

Lesson 5 - Flat Tire/Jump Chords and Feel, with T-Bone Walker's Soloing Style and Influences

Lesson 6 - Minor Blues, Rhythm Guitar Variations, and Call Response Techniques

Lesson 7 - Playing in the Pocket, and Magic Sam Style Blues

Lesson 8 - Basic Slide Techniques and Open Tunings: Elmore James

Lesson 9 - Slide in G Tuning: Son House, Muddy Waters, and John Lee Hooker Styles

Lesson 10 - Blues Rock and Gospel Blues

Lesson 11 - Jazz Blues: Kenny Burrell, Comping Range, and Rhythm Guitar Along the Neck

Lesson 12 - More Jazz Blues
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That's a pretty damn ambitious course! I guess the aim is not to make the student fluent in all the variations, but rather introduce the participants to different players and styles, but there is still a helluva lot of info there! I wish I had the time and opportunity to do something like this.

Sp8ctre said:
...and for the curious, here is the Classic Rock Syllabus. After these two classes I will be awarded a certificate that I will have to hide until I can play at least one song through
from the beginning to the end!

Way to much Clapton for me...

Syllabus

Lesson 1 - The Minor Pentatonic Scale, Basic Solo Technique, and the Blues Influence on Classic Rock

Lesson 2 - Eric Clapton: Blues Breakers through Cream

Lesson 3 - Eric Clapton: Derek and the Dominos and Solo Work

Lesson 4 - Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin

Lesson 5 - Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin—Open Tunings and Acoustic Work

Lesson 6 - The Allman Brothers and the Major Pentatonic Scale

Lesson 7 - Modes for the Rock Guitarist

Lesson 8 - David Gilmour and Pink Floyd

Lesson 9 - Jeff Beck

Lesson 10 - Jimi Hendrix

Lesson 11 - Jimi Hendrix

Lesson 12 - Modern Masters
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Too much Clapton? His three great "periods" are represented. There can never be too much of that work!
 
The courses are all very ambitious and somewhat daunting to a beginner such as myself! They are really meant for students who have
been pursuing music there entire lives IMO. However the instructors are very helpful and fair. Since I'm only taking the courses for a
certificate program and not a degree I feel they are basing my grading on my skill level...

I have struggled on some of the courses, but made it through none the less...

Here is the list of what I've completed. I promise you would never believe I took all these classes if you heard me play...I am still in the lack of confidence suck stage....
I also have a hard time remembering the licks, but I can read tab well now and I can translate real music notation to tab so I can play it. I can't sight read music notation
and play it directly at all...

Master Guitar
Summer 2016

Music Theory 101
OHARM-101 - Receipt Completed A-

Guitar Scales 101
OGUIT-121 - Receipt Completed B-
Fall 2016

Guitar Chords 101
OGUIT-120 - Receipt Completed A
Winter 2017

Music Foundations
OHARM-100 - Receipt Completed A
Summer 2017

Getting Your Guitar Sound
OGUIT-223 - Receipt Completed B+
Fall 2017

Basic Improvisation
OPERF-110 - Receipt Completed A-
 
Good work, Spectre! I can't read music for s**t, I wish I had worked harder when I played the piano as a kid. I can name the notes if I take some time thinking about it, but for all practical purposes I'm a musical illiterate.
 
Sp8ctre said:
Thanks! It's been a hard row to hoe...but I'm still enjoying it!
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I get the feeling the enjoyment is the point for you, not necessarily to complete a degree? I'm not sure I could finish a course like that. Maybe not because the work was too hard, but because it would require more discipline than I have. I've always played what I wanted, never what I ought to play to get better...
 
Gahr said:
I get the feeling the enjoyment is the point for you, not necessarily to complete a degree? I'm not sure I could finish a course like that. Maybe not because the work was too hard, but because it would require more discipline than I have. I've always played what I wanted, never what I ought to play to get better...
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I have lofty plans to attend Musician's Institute of Technology in Los Angeles...
 
Robert Herndon said:
I have lofty plans to attend Musician's Institute of Technology in Los Angeles...
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Cool! If I had the time and a little more cash, I would probably take some guitar lessons to learn how to jazz up my blues a bit. To do it I know I would have to practice more systematically than l have time for at this stage in my life though. But when the kids move out in a few years...
 
Gahr said:
Cool! If I had the time and a little more cash, I would probably take some guitar lessons to learn how to jazz up my blues a bit. To do it I know I would have to practice more systematically than l have time for at this stage in my life though. But when the kids move out in a few years...
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Dude, I am like Rain Man. No formal music education...and this morning I was asked if I would consider teaching guitar students for a local music academy. I was stunned.
 
Gahr said:
Cool! If I had the time and a little more cash, I would probably take some guitar lessons to learn how to jazz up my blues a bit. To do it I know I would have to practice more systematically than l have time for at this stage in my life though. But when the kids move out in a few years...
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You don't need any help. You only need to produce a blues CD....I will buy copy #1 if you sign it.
 
Gahr said:
I'm flattered! But I really do not know how to play any jazz save for a few chords and licks, and I would love to learn.

And that, I believe, was my post nr. 1000!
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Congrats on 1000! And on my thread! I'm honored!

Now you need a title...
 
Sp8ctre said:
...and I'm really looking forward to it!

This one is "Blues Guitar" and I think it will be my favorite because Blues is what I want to play the most!

This is my 7th class with Berklee and while I've learned a lot I still suck! I have one more class after this one. It's "Classic Rock Guitar" which should also be quite fun!

Wish me luck!

Here is the breakdown of the next 12 weeks...

Syllabus

Lesson 1 - Playing the Blues in E

Lesson 2 - Blues in E—Varying the Feel, Minor Pentatonic Scales, and 8-Bar Blues

Lesson 3 - Slow Blues with Sliding 9th Chords, Pentatonic Scales Part 2, and String Bends

Lesson 4 - T-Bone Style Blues with Sliding 9th Chords, and Chicago Shuffles

Lesson 5 - Flat Tire/Jump Chords and Feel, with T-Bone Walker's Soloing Style and Influences

Lesson 6 - Minor Blues, Rhythm Guitar Variations, and Call Response Techniques

Lesson 7 - Playing in the Pocket, and Magic Sam Style Blues

Lesson 8 - Basic Slide Techniques and Open Tunings: Elmore James

Lesson 9 - Slide in G Tuning: Son House, Muddy Waters, and John Lee Hooker Styles

Lesson 10 - Blues Rock and Gospel Blues

Lesson 11 - Jazz Blues: Kenny Burrell, Comping Range, and Rhythm Guitar Along the Neck

Lesson 12 - More Jazz Blues
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Is there a Heavy Metal syllabus??? Like with pagan rituals and that sort of thing???? :)

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