Rockschool Guitar Grade 2
with RSL Awards
Beginner
41 lessons (2h 51m)
Sheet music included
Backing tracks included
Mobile, Tablet + Desktop
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Course Trailer
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Sample Lesson
Free
- Intro
- Welcome to the online course
- Meet Charlie Griffiths
- Meet Rob Luft
- Meet Stuart Ryan
- Meet Marcus Bonfanti
- Pieces performances
- Cranked
- Ska'd for life
- Bonecrusher
- Hit It Harder
- The Faith Divide
- Buzzsaw
- Pro Performance Analyses
- Cranked
- Ska'd for life
- Bonecrusher
- Hit It Harder
- The Faith Divide
- Buzzsaw
- Technical exercises
- Intro to technical exercises
- Tech advice (early grades)
- Rob Luft on how to practice exercises
- Group A: Scales
- Group B: Chords
- Fundamental techniques
- How to hold guitar and pick
- Picking hand position
- Fretting hand position
- Alternate picking
- Legato (hammer-ons & pull-offs)
- Barre chords
- Vibrato
- Improvisation techniques
- Intro to Approaches to improvisation
- Getting started with improvisation
- Assignment: Finding chord tones
- Improvising using chord tones
- Adding rhythmic interest to your solos
- Assignment: Improvising over a chord change
- Challenge: Submit your improv
- Rhythmic improv & comping
- Sight reading
- Sight reading tips
- Outro
- Course outro
- About Rockschool exams
- Preparing for your Rockschool exam
Lesson plan (2h 51m)
Welcome to Rockschool Guitar Grade 2: The Pro Perspective
This innovative video course challenges you to be the best gutiarist and musician you can be, whatever your level.
MusicGurus and Rockschool have assembled a team of top pro guitarists to provide unique lessons on 6 pieces written specifically for this grade, as well as give in-depth analysis of all the fundamental skills, and invaluable advice on sight reading, feel, developing authentic vocabularly, playing musically, practicing effectively and building your technique.
With the MusicGurus video player you can loop and slow-down all the performances and demonstrations, so this course will allow you to see exactly what the pros are doing. If you're a student taking a graded exam, this course is the ideal preparation. And if you're a teacher teaching Rockschool this course will provide all kinds of ideas to keep your lessons fresh and authentic.
Sheet music and tab is included for all pieces. However, the course is most effective when paired with a Rockschool Grade Book which you can purchase here: https://www.rslawards.com/rockschool
Here is some information on the guitarists you'll learn from.
- Stuart Ryan is an award winning musician, regarded as one of the UK’s finest acoustic/electric guitarists.
- Rob Luft is an award-winning 24-year-old musician from London, and has been described as one of the UK’s most prominent and talented young contemporary jazz guitarists.
- Charlie Griffiths is adept at heavy metal, touring with his critically acclaimed progressive metal band, Haken. He's also written for Total Guitar, Guitar Techniques, and Guitar World for over ten years.
- Marcus Bonfanti is a blues and country guitarist, who's collaborated with legends such as Eric Clapton, Van Morisson, Ronnie Wood, Dave Gilmour, just to name a few.
- James Barratt is a master technician and guitar educator - experienced examiner for Rockschool exam board and teacher at BIMM in Birmingham focusing on Essential Styles and Live Performance.
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