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Garage Guitar 2

This level expands on the work done in Garage Guitar Level 1 by adding more complex songs to repertoire. We also cover acoustic guitar songs that are part of the rock guitar catalogue.

Unit 1
  • Jamming Skills - Rock Cliché 1 in different keys
  • Harmony & Theory - Notes on 6 Strings (key of C)
  • Harmony & Theory - 6 Moveable Bar Chord forms-Major bar chord scales with roots on 5th and 6th strings
  • Harmony & Theory - 6 Moveable Bar Chord forms -Minor bar chord scales with roots on 5th and 6th strings
  • Technique - "I-IV Chord Progression" with Bar Chords
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #1-Straight 4 strumming
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #2-Folk 8 strumming
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #3-Rock 8 strumming with palm muting
  • Songs - in the style of Led Zeppelin

Unit 2
  • Jamming Skills - Rock Cliché 2 in different keys
  • Harmony & Theory - 9 Open Chords
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #4-Bluegrass strumming pattern
  • Technique - 2 types of Practise-Motor System Training vs Conceptual Learning
  • Tuning
  • Songs - in the style of the Yardbirds and George Thorogood

Unit 3
  • Jamming Skills - Rock Cliché 3 in different keys
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #5-Rhumba strumming pattern
  • Songs - in the style of Blue Oyster Cult, Poison, the Beatles, and Nirvana

Unit 4
  • Jamming Skills - Rock Cliché 4 in different keys
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #14-Redneck Strumming Pattern
  • Songs - in the style of Guns and Roses, Kiss, Tom Petty, Tesla, and Jimi Hendrix

Unit 5
  • Jamming Skills - Rock Cliché 5 in different keys
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #6-Jig strumming pattern
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #6B-Blues Shuffle strumming pattern
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #7-Swing strumming pattern
  • Technique - 12 bar blues
  • Songs - in the style of Green Day and the Georgia Satellites

Unit 6
  • Jamming Skills - Rock Cliché 6 in different keys
  • Technique - "I-IV-V chord progressions" in different keys using open chords (Chord Changing Exercises)
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #11-Straight 8 in 3/4 strumming pattern (3/4 time)
  • Songs - in the style of the Beatles, AC DC

Unit 7
  • Jamming Skills - Rock Cliché 7 in different keys
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #8-Bluegrass Swing strumming pattern
  • Songs - in the style of Green Day, Mountain, David Bowie, and the Band

Unit 8
  • Jamming Skills - Rock Cliché 8 in different keys
  • Songs - in the style of the White Ts, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Bob Seger

Unit 9
  • Jamming Skills - Rock Cliché 9 in different keys
  • Harmony & Theory - "I-IV-V chord progression"
  • Harmony & Theory - "I-VI-IV-V chord progression"
  • Harmony & Theory - "I-II-IV-V chord progression"
  • Harmony & Theory - The "Harmonized Major scale"
  • Technique - Basic Rhythm #9-Swing Rhumba (Mersey Beat) strumming pattern

Unit 10
  • Jamming Skills - Rock Cliché 10 in different keys
  • Songs - in the style of Free, Ozzy Osbourne, the Eagles, and Steve Miller