@artax_2 Stacey, I’ve struggled with that the last 2 years that I have practiced in Grade 3. I finally decided to use the old Intermediate Method book (purchase from Amazon) and add the guitar elements that interested me. Notice that the Barre chords, Major Scale Maestro and Rhythm Maestro are not limited to blues. Also notice that there is no blues studies in grade 5, just the paid course on transcribing blues solos. So I am combining grades 4 and 5 in my plans. My motivation is to spend time leaning the Grade 4 and 5 songs that have website song lessons. I have noticed that some (like @alexisduprey @jkahn and @math07 ) have used the discipline of playing through the songs in the JG Rock songbook to provide structured goals. Even Justin admits that for specific rock specialties like prog or other styles, you might need to look to other sources such as TrueFire lessons. One piece of supplement material for rock I am considering is a book with online video that I recently purchased, a DK complete course book:
I couldn’t find a reference to this anywhere in this site but it does have a series of 10 rock guitar learning session chapters and online videos of all exercises and the performance song at the end of each chapter and teaches the CAGED system.
Another rock tutorial I will probably use is the more detailed 3 book series - beginner, intermediate, advanced which has videos on DVD:
One approach I may try is to focus on blues in grade 4 and add the rock methods when I get to grade 5. UPDATE: I just remembered that I am also reviewing grade 3, which in the classic song organization, is heavy on rock songs, so I’ll still be working on rock songs while learning blues in grade 4, particularly in the JG Rock Songbook.