Guitar Courses
Though more than half of all working musicians earn a full-time salary, landing one of the quarter-million jobs available for music professionals can be challenging. Online guitar courses allow musicians at all stages of their careers the opportunity to hone their skills without disrupting busy work schedules.Online Guitar Lessons
Online guitar courses provide the kind of in-depth practice that musicians can't get on their own. Instead of trekking between lecture halls and practice studios, students use innovative online tools to participate in classes and to complete assignments. Best of all, online guitar courses help musicians focus on fundamental skills that can be useful in a variety of career settings, from live performance to music teaching.Berklee College of Music
Study guitar with the top music school in the country
Become a better, more well rounded and articulate guitarist, and get college credit!
These production courses are offered entirely online with Berklee's renowned faculty.
Take your guitar playing to the next level by gaining a mastery of chord forms, scales, and various stylistic techniques. Cover any style, and develop your own unique sound to really put yourself in a higher class of musician.
Choose from individual courses, or three levels of certificate programs. We also have a complete list of all courses for guitar.
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Online Courses for Guitarists
Guitar Chords 101
Guitar Chords 101 presents Berklee's approach to the construction of chords; a method that focuses less on the shape of the individual chord, and more on the notes that the chord is based around. Students will learn to construct and play triads and 7th chords, as well as look at inversions and different chord voicings.
Rick Peckham (6 weeks) 2 Credits
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Guitar Scales 101
Guitar Scales 101 will help you to organize the often-ambiguous guitar fretboard, and provide you with the knowledge to confidently navigate the instrument and develop your technique. The course begins by looking at the major and pentatonic scales. You'll then learn to construct and play blues, Dorian, and Mixolydian scales in all keys.
Larry Baione (6 weeks) 2 Credits
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Amps, Effects and Getting Your Guitar Sound
Amps, Effects and Getting Your Guitar Sound will help you and your band to create your own unique voice by presenting a detailed, global perspective of the electric guitar that's made up of three distinct parts: the guitar, the amplifier, and the effects.
Dan Bowden (6 weeks) 2 Credits
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Recording and Producing for Guitarists
This course is essential to any guitarist interested in expanding their recording and production skills. Also, producers and engineers that have an intermediate level of guitar background and the capability to play simple melodic and chordal parts over basic chord changes will also benefit.
Randy Roos (6 weeks) 2 Credits
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Blues Guitar Workshop 1
No matter what style you chose to play - jazz, rock, classical - having a blues background provides guitarists with a foundation in form, control, feel and harmonies that can be used to advance your playing in any genre of music. Blues Guitar Workshop begins by teaching the 12-bar blues harmony, basic rhythm guitar technique, and the pentatonic and blues scale in the open position up the neck.
Michael Williams (6 weeks) 2 Credits
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