Technical Training

A month-long intensive blues training course that will fast-track your technical ability. 
Whereas the Lead Phrasing course covers artistic approaches and imaginative ideas to improve your playing, this course builds sheer technique and facility.  

If you are currently held back by your rhythm, speed, fretboard knowledge, and ease of finding the right notes, then this course will give you a systematic and comprehensive personalised plan that will increase your technical proficiency in the Blues dramatically.  After this intense course, you will probably find your improvisations take on a new level of vitality and excitement.

On the course can print off a log book to keep track of practice. 

The course covers six main techniques - vertical, horizontal and diagonal playing, combined with fretboard knowledge, arpeggios and double stops.  All the techniques are chosen because of their usefulness to playing the Blues.  The different areas are given exercises of increasing difficulty and complexity, so you can keep track of your progress and pick exercises which are at your level.

Course requirements:

You will need to know (as a minimum) 
  • The minor pentatonic scale in at least one position, and during the course you will be expected to learn all 5 positions of the minor pentatonic (we recommend you do this before the course starts to obtain maximum benefit
  • E-shape and A-shape barre chords
  • We recommend you have been playing guitar for at least a year
  • You will need to commit to 60 minutes of practicing time per day to complete all the exercises involved on the course and derive the maximum benefit

There is no upper-limit to the skill level of this course, as even experienced players will be pushed to their edge of their ability.

If you don't meet the requirements for this course, then consider taking 'Blues Basics', the foundational course which gets you started playing the Blues.