Beginners Guitar Lesson 3: Introducing "Rock" Guitar
A First "Rock Guitar" Lesson
A new chord and one that the student already knows to produce music with a "rock" feel
There are five basic stages involved in this third guitar lesson....
1: Recap the material covered in lesson 2 and address any issues arising
2: Learn to form and strum (once) the chord of A
3: Change between the chords of A and G in time to music strumming each chord once
4: Use more complicated strumming patterns
5: Make sure your student knows what to practice before the next lesson
6: Email the backing track to your student for home study!
Its really just the same lesson plan with different chords
By now you should be starting to realise that teaching somebody to play the guitar really isn't all that complicated? Here I am presenting a series of distinct and individual lesson plans but if you take a step back you can see that its really just the same lesson plan with a bunch of different chords
Students are required to form new chord shapes and then play those new shapes (along with chords that they already know) in time to backing tracks
If there is a "trick" to guitar teaching then this is it!
Introducing students to new things (chord shapes/scales/techniques etc) that they are ready to work on technically while building on the things that they already know and can do
For the sake of simplicity this programme of lessons is structured so that the first sessions are geared towards having students develop the technical capability to change between the "best" eight chords that a beginner can learn in time to music but if your student is burning to start to play solo lines there is no harm at all in throwing in the Am Pentatonic scale and using that against the A to G backing track
Download The lesson Plan
This lesson is usually a popular one with the bass and drums featured on the backing track doing the "heavy lifting"
Even a single strum as the chords change can result in a very effective and pleasing effect
Here's a short video I have up there on youtube that looks at this lesson and suggested strumming patterns in greater detail.....
The video will start from "lesson no 3"
Below you can see an example of the kind of practice plan that you could give to your student at the end of this session
It should be pointed out that those sections dealing with music theory and repertoire will come into play to a far greater extent from lesson six onwards
The next beginners guitar lesson...
In the next lesson your students will encounter the final three chords (Am Dm and E) that any beginner should learn on a guitar
The backing track for this lesson is another that can be used to explain and explore the Am pentatonic scale
Lesson 5
Lesson 5 is a recap session where progress to this point is evaluated and any "gaps" in knowledge or capability are addressed before it all gets "interesting" in lesson 6
Lesson 6
Beginners Guitar Lesson 6 is where it all gets "interesting" in the sense that now a basic technical ability has been built in to a student we can then devise and enact a plan that will get them to where they want to be
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