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The Guitar Hall Rock Guitar Course

Go beyond basic power chords and learn to play serious rock riffs, techniques and solos. The courses include everything from finger exercises to difficult rock rhythms.

The advanced rock guitar course is for you if you already know what a power chord is and if you know how scales work. This course will show you how to play and create riffs. How to play rock style solos, using rock guitar techniques and play rock scales and rock chords.

As with any Guitar Hall course, the objective of the course is to make you a better guitar player, notto teach you a specific song or group of songs. The Guitar Hall Rock Guitar Course is no different.

While you will have the enjoyment of learning from classic rock guitar song, most of which you will instantly recognize, we do not give you the entire song. In some cases there are songs which include the solo, riffs and licks. In others, just one riff or lick might be all that is important in the song. In addition, there may be very difficult passages in a song that will be left for future volumes of higher difficulty level. Here, in this course, you will find the most important segments of tunes directed towards those players of beginning and intermediate skill playing capabilities. Notice that there are solos by Eric Johnson, Van Halen,Randy Rhoads, George Lynch,Zakk Wylde,Kirk Hammet,Joe Satriani ,Marty Friedman,etc which would be covered in detail in the course program.

Many guitarists learn to solo by co-opting the technical licks and riffs from their favorite players into their own playing, while adding in their own personal feel and emotion. The result of this approach is that guitarists end up knowing how to improvise in a particular style, but lack the technical understanding of why these solos work.  The Guitar Hall Rock Guitar Soloing is designed to help guitarists who may have learned the technical aspects of playing, but lack the theoretical application of the musical elements that make up a strong solo. Through one -on- one training ,the course explores the technical aspects of what makes a successful solo – form scales and arpeggios and new ways to practice them, to applying them to an improvisational context.

You will learn how to identify various modal progressions and their characteristics, and how to play and think within a diatonic framework as a means of organizing your musical vocabulary. You will listen to solos from many lead guitarists and learn how to apply those concepts to your own playing. The course also explores tone, phrasing, theme, variation and other improvisational techniques. The goal of the course is to better equip you with a harmonic understanding of the elements of a solo that you can then implement into your own playing regardless of style.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• improvise using pentatonic scales, arpeggios, and modes over various types of chords and chord progressions
• construct solos more logically and methodically
• develop your own unique style of improvisation
• have a better understanding of chord scale relationships

Prerequisites

Completion of the following Guitar Hall courses is strongly recommended:

• Guitar Hall Module 1
• Guitar Hall Module 2

You should have basic playing experience and an understanding of pentatonic scales, major scales/modes, triads, and seventh chords.

 The Complete  Course:

1) The Guitar Hall Rock Guitar Course: Level 1: (Duration  3 Months:- 24 Sessions: Fees: Rs. 5,200/-)

2) The Guitar Hall Rock Guitar Course: Level 2: (Duration 4 Months: - 32 Sessions: Fees: Rs. 6,800/-)

Guitar Hall Centers:

1)  CHEMBUR: B-7,Gurudev Apartments,R.C. Marg,Chembur naka,near Akbarallys,Chembur,Mumbai-71.

2) SANTACRUZ: Sujata Building, Shop No. 9,Juhu-Tara Road, Opposite Santacruz Police Station, Santacruz (West),Mumbai - 400054

3) VASHI: Shop No. 21,Plot No. 76,J.K. Chambers, Sector 17,Near Hotel Golden Punjab,Vashi,Navi Mumbai – 400703

4) GHATKOPAR:  Shop No.1, Ground Floor,Ananth Niwas Building,4 th Rajawadi Road,Opposite Bank Of Baroda,Rajawadi,Ghatkopar (East),Mumbai-77

5) ANDHERI : Ground Floor, Emerald Apartments,Yari Road Ext.,D-Mart Lane,Versova,Andheri (West),Mumbai – 400061

6) BORIVALI : Shop No. 2,Bill Berry Apartments,Opposite Corporation Bank,I.C. Colony,Borivali (West),Mumbai – 400103

7) GOREGAON: Gold’s Gym,Gardenia, Vasant Complex,Nr. Dindoshi Bus Depot, Opp Oberoi Mall,Goregaon – East,Mumbai - 400063

What would you find in the Guitar Hall Rock Guitar Course

The first phase in rock guitar courses will start with theory which will help you to understand the basic parts of the rock/electric guitar, standard notations, guitar symbols, and basic chord theory. You will also learn to play different scales and chords. You will discover to utilize your views and sentiments to perform the guitar so that in the later stages when you are ready to play, you and your guitar will become one!

The next phase of rock guitar lessons will focus on soloing. You may have been overcome by those amazing guitar solos that you have watched at live concerts. So here’s your chance to learn soloing, which will include beginner, intermediate, and advanced lessons. In the beginner lessons you will understand more about hammer-ons, bends, open position scales, and vibratos. The intermediate lesson is where you will discover to do your own solo and perform it as well. You will also get to learn how to use natural harmonics and play major scale modes. When you reach the advanced soloing lessons, you will be confident enough to produce your solos and this will persuade you to play them more often. The advanced rock guitar courses will help you to perform different techniques especially with speed.

Speed is an important part of performing the rock guitar as well as soloing and you will really have to rehearse a lot to be able to move your hand freely across the guitar fretboard at high speed.

Rock guitar is not easy to understand but then it is not impossible because we will handhold you through each and every step of our rock guitar lessons. We see a potential rock guitar player in each of our students and learn the need to bring that rock star to the front and our rock guitar lessons have been developed to bring out your true talent.

This course is perfect for you if:

• You want to develop a great expressive guitar playing style which will help you create and play powerful guitar solos.
   
• You want to understand how to make better note choices when soloing so that your solos come alive.
   
• You want to learn how to apply all of those scales, arpeggios, and techniques; you’ve been working so hard on, in a personal and expressive way.
   
• You want to express yourself more fully.