Intermediate
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The Pentatonic scale
Improvising 101 Pentatonic Pattern 2 Natural Harmonics Improvising 102 Pentatonic Pattern 3 Alternate Picking Finger Picking Improvising 103 Pentatonic Pattern 4 String Crossing Improvising 104 Pentatonic Pattern 5 Slurs/Slides/Bending Improvising 105 Connecting it all! ‘Blue’ & passing notes Improvising 106 |
The items in the left-hand column suggest a loose timeline of items to cover before one should consider themselves an 'intermediate' guitar player. Depending on your style and approach, this may vary to a degree, but for aspiring pop/rock/blues/jazz focused guitar players in particular, knowing the 5 Pentatonic scale patterns, the blues scale, understanding natural harmonics and the basics of alternate picking, slurring, sliding and string bending is essential core knowledge. You will need to be comfortable with these concepts before you can effectively move on to the next stage with a solid foundation. I do not suggest that you'll be playing Pentatonic scales fluently at speed at this stage, but you should know what they are and how to play through them slowly in any key, and you should be able to loosely improvise within these patterns using the picking methods and other techniques covered...at a very basic level for now.
Once again, JustinGuitar.com should be your initial go to for intermediate material covering these items: https://justinguitar.com/classes/intermediate-guitar-course-grade-four If you've been using JustinGuitar.com as suggested on the Beginner page, you should have completed his Beginner 1, 2 & 3 courses before tackling this material, although there may be some crossover. |