In 2013, guitar instructor John E. Davis was awarded Best Guitar Lesson and Music Instructor by the City of Arlington, Texas Awards Program. His progressive Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar and Electric Bass lesson program was awarded this special honor for ground-breaking achievement in music teaching.
The 8-Week Beginner Course:
My 8-Week beginner course covers Open Chords and Power Chords. Tuning the guitar. Correct finger and neck grip positions. Both Strumming and Finger exercises to build hand strength. Notes of the neck are covered here and note intervals are introduced.
Students learn songs such as Smoke On the Water by Deep Purple, Back In Black by AC/DC and Neon Moon by Brooks and Dunn. Students also offer three songs of their own to learn. Students are offered FREE video-based instruction as well to supplement lessons.
The Beginner Guitar Student starts with both basic strumming and scale exercises to improving the technique and accuracy in your playing. We pair correct technique exercises with Major and Minor Open Chords to learn a variety or popular songs. Here we start finger exercises to increase strength and dexterity, moving toward pentatonic scales and blues riffs.
Chord Building & Chord Progressions – Here we progress to chord progressions with the metronome and practice speed strumming interval training. Students learn their first song Spanish Guitar and basic down stroke strumming. Power Chords are introduced. Tablature notation reading is introduced.
Guitar Riffing and Song Practice – Students request songs they want to learn and we pair that with three Open Chord Song Riffs and three Power Chord Song Riffs included in course instruction. Student jam Open Chord riffs at actual song tempos with a tempo meter.
The 16-week Beginner Lead Guitar Student starts with 12-Bar blues riff sequence as well and introduce the basics of the Major and Minor Pentatonic scales. Students learn to jam these scales over various chord progressions in specified keys.
Also included is Scale Theory – All five Pentatonic Box shapes, all Major and Minor seven note scales, Blues Scale, Modes and Arpeggios.