Quick Start Guitar-Acoustic
TrueFire Learning Path has just what you need and at the right price.
The Quick-Start for Beginner course is the perfect place to start if you know some chord and strumming patterns and are able to play some songs and single-note lines.
If not, check out TrueFire’s other courses in the Learning Path. Get started on the right path.
The Quick-Start Acoustic Guitar Course will help you get to the next level with the help of 3 top TrueFire teachers: Corey Congilio, Brooks Robertson, and David Hamburger. Watch this video by Brooks Robertson to see what the lessons are like.
Are you concerned about having to practice all the boring things like reading music, tedious exercises, music theory? Don’t be!! Not in this course!! This course teaches you to play the guitar. In fact, you’ll be playing your guitar through the whole course.
What You’ll Learn:
- You’ll get in the groove with a classic rhythm pattern.
- Learn a chord progression that many songs use.
- Versatile Fingerstyle technique for use in any song.
- Acoustic guitar techniques.
- Acoustic blues.
- 12 Bar progression.
- New chords.
- New essential rhythm patterns.
How The Quick Start Program Works
You will see demonstrations of all the key examples played over jam tracks (if applicable). This will give you an idea of how to play them in the real world. You will also see how to apply them in a musical, performance context.
You will also see key examples of tabbed and notated for your practice. Everything you need for practice, reference, and studies are included in the lesson.
Also included are the Guitar Pro files which enable you to play, loop, or slow down the tab and notation as you practice the lessons. You can repeat any section as needed so you can learn the material. It is all under your control.
The great thing is that all the jam tracks are yours to use as you work on your own.
Take the course at your own speed. Go at the speed that is comfortable for you. It gives you the opportunity to really learn the lesson before moving on to the next lesson.
Supplementary Material
Supplementary material is available if you want to dig deeper or wider into any part of the material covered in the core course. The Supplementary materials contain more examples, techniques, and insight from the top TrueFire teachers.
Are you ready to get started? Click here!!
by Dena Warfield
Video Lessons with SoundSlice
TrueFire’s website is easy to navigate with high definition photos and videos. The lessons feature multiple angles providing close-up views of the guitarist’s hands as he/she plays. They also use SoundSlice which is a music learning platform with interactive music notation. As the teacher plays through a lesson, in a different camera angle, Soundslice follows the music notation or chord chart as the music is being played. TrueFire has teamed up with SoundSlice to provide the best way to learn any song. You will find SoundSlice used in all the lessons, plus the Jam Tracks.
TrueFire’s In The Jam delivers an unparalleled jamming experience for the beginner or advanced musician. The Jam Track is the next best thing to jamming in real life. To make it even better you get to jam with well-known artists.
Each Jam Track includes 10 multi-track videos arranged in separate video and audio tracks for each of the instruments on the video. The video gives you the ability to mute, solo, or adjust the volume of any track. You will also get lead sheet charts which enables you to follow the chord change and jam structure.
Jam Tracks with SoundSlice video is the best way to develop your improvisation skills so you are ready to jam with a band on stage with a solid rhythm section and other musicians.
With the Jam Tracks, you will have a bandstand right in your practice room! room!
TrueFire is currently focused on teaching techniques instead of learning numerous songs so that the guitarists are able to apply their skills in any situation. This could be a negative for a guitarist who just wants to learn songs, but it is a plus for someone who has the dream of playing professionally.
They also offer private lessons with an instructor of your choices for an extra cost. There is a wide variety of programs and costs for private lessons. In the private lesson, you get 1 topic-specific lesson with the instructor of your choice. The lesson includes a skill assessment, video messaging, file attachments, and a discussion thread for a one-time fee. The cost of the private lesson, considering the video and written assessment, the cost is very reasonable. There are several plans to choose from.
In comparison, I priced lessons in our local city. The prices ranged anywhere from $30 to $276 per hour.
I took music lessons for years. Online video lessons with an occasional private lesson, in my opinion, would be much more productive. With a video lesson, you have something to listen to and compare to your playing, whereas, with face-to-face lessons, you often miss something the teacher is saying causing your practice to be less effective and your learning slower.
TrueFire’s private lessons give you the benefit of learning from an experienced guitarist and teacher while learning from home with the video lessons and practice tracks. This is one area where TrueFire provides more opportunities than other online guitar lessons.