Learn to Play Guitar With Amanda Monaco

by bbracken on September 22, 2008


Learn to Play Guitar With Amanda Monaco

Amanda’s Jazz Guitar Lessons are for beginners and intermediate players and cover a broad range of subjects. In her lessons about rhythms and styles, Amanda tells you about some of the history behind them, which will motivate you to learn more about a particular style or rhythm.

At the beginner level, Amanda discusses the major scale in various positions on the fretboard, intervals and triads, barre chords, triad arpeggios, and four-to-the-bar comping. You learn to play a basic Blues progression, the Charleston Rhythm, and the Blues scale. Among other topics, you learn the construction of major and minor 7th chords, and diminished and half-diminished chords. The lessons about rhythms and styles introduce you to Clave, Samba and Bossa Nova comping patterns.

The lessons at the intermediate level are all about modes: Learn the Ionian, Dorian, and Mixolydian modes along with the theory and fingerings, and apply the newly acquired skills to modal improvisation. View Full Bio

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