I badly needed this lesson! One of my (newly stated) goals is to have a repertoire of 25 songs I can play at gatherings. Pulling out all of my notes and papers, I found that I have worked on over 50 different songs in the past couple of years. While I can play & sing 11 of those songs all the way through, I have just ONE song that I am comfortable playing in front of friends and family. Going through this exercise prompted me to (finally) start putting together my songbook. Next step is that I’ll develop the other 10 songs I know into songs I can play in front of others. No doubt I can get to 25 songs, and using SMART goals will get me there much sooner than continuing to bounce around without goals to check my progress against. Thank you Justin.
Big goal: Start playing in bands
Long goal: become a great improviser for jam sessions, spontaneous solos. My preferred style being somewhere in blues, jazz and rock.
Mid term goals:
Guitar: Get G-scale open position/2nd position/5th position to at least 100 bpm 16th notes without looking.
Understand and apply vibrato and string bending.
Play barre chords to a good level
Ear training: Learn all intervals by ear with 90%+ succes rate
Learn to recognize notes by ear with 90%+ succes rate
Theory: Truly understand the ins and outs of chord structure, learn the theory behind motives and other improvisation theory
Short term goals:
Guitar: Practice G scale, practice finger control fretting hand, practice strumming the correct string consistently without looking, practice improvising over backing tracks/great songs.
Ear training: keep going over the intervals one by one
Theory: understand how to make 7 chords all over the neck
I want to become a Fingerstyle solo guitar player. I am doing some songs already but I’m finding it difficult to establish medium term goals. Having a suggested learning pathway would be very useful for me.
Denis I usually don’t recommend other teachers on Justin’s forum but seeing how Justin doesn’t have a beginner to advanced finger style course I’ll make an exception.
Chris has free lessons and paid courses from beginner to advanced
https://sixstringfingerpicking.com/songs/
I’ve completed the fingerstyle beginners course and currently working my way through the fingerstyle intermediate course albeit I’ve stopped at the moment to focus on BLIM. They kind of went hand in hand with Justin’s course as like most fingerstyle courses they expect you to already have good solid foundations.
Thanks. I’ve had a quick look and it seems very interesting.
My goal is to become a competent fingerstyle guitar player. I really enjoyed the lesson on playing Greensleaves. I want to get more guitar tabs to enable me to be able to play a large number of tunes using fingerstyle.