Aug. 26, 2022
092 - Are You A Beginner Or Intermediate Guitarist?
If you feel like a perpetual beginner and wonder where you are on your guitar-playing journey. Then this episode is for you as I will answer the question are you a beginner or intermediate guitarist?
Housekeeping
- Red Hot Chili Peppers 5 Riffs Workshop - released 27th August @ 9 am (GMT)
Main Content
BGA Levels
- Level One = Beginner
- Level Two = Late Beginner
- Level Three = Intermediate
You are an intermediate guitarist if you can:
- Confidently pick
- Know and be able to change smoothly between your fundamental open chords (major, minor & 7ths)
- Know power chords and be able to move them around cleanly
- Know the basic bar chord shapes
- Basic strumming patterns - whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth rhythms & equivalent rests syncopated rhythms & triplets
- Be able to play along in time to a metronome
- Play through several complete songs
- Play the major, natural minor, major pentatonic, minor pentatonic & blues scales
- Basic lead technique: sliding, hammer-ons & pull-offs & bends
- Know your notes in the first three frets across all six strings
- Improvise a solo
