Intermediate Method Foundation Revision (Guitar Lesson IM-160) Consolidation

Justin's Completely Free, Intermediate Guitar Course Lesson IM-160.
Intermediate Method Foundation Revision.

This video gives a recap of all the things you should have learned on the Intermediate Method Foundation lessons to make sure you have it clear what you should be able to do and know before moving onto the style modules which will come out later this year!

Find the related course notes on the following link:
http://justinguitar.com/en/IM-160-FoundationConsolidation.php

This is part of Justin's Intermediate Guitar Method, Foundation. A series of lessons available free online!

http://justinguitar.com/en/IM-000-IntermediateMethod.php

Taught by Justin Sandercoe.

Full support at the justinguitar web site where you will find hundreds of lessons on a wide range of subjects, and all the scales and chords that you will ever need! There is a great forum too to get help, no matter what the problem.

And it is all totally free, no bull. No sample lessons, no memberships, no free ebook. Just tons of great lessons :)

To get help with this lesson (and for further info and tabs), find the Lesson ID in the video title (like ST-667 or whatever) and then look it up on the Lesson Index page of justinguitar.com

http://www.justinguitar.com

Have fun :)

.

Hi, Justin here, how're you doing?

If you're watching this video I'm guessing
you've made it all of the way through

the Intermediate Foundation lessons,
so well done, congratulations!

I'm sure you've put in a whole heap of work

and I hope that you're a lot better guitar
player now than you were when you started.

Now the idea of this little lesson
is just a consolidation one really.

I'm gonna run through all of the
things that you should have done

and that you should be
confident and cool with,

before you move on to the style modules.

Now the reason I've just kind of
divided stuff up like this is that

I'm pretty sure at this kind of level, not everyone
wants to study all the different styles.

Not everyone wants to check out heavy
metal or slide guitar or jazz or whatever.

So this way, the idea is that we get through
all of the kind of the foundation skills,

so technical and knowledge base
skills, that you'd need to

really kind of grow as
an intermediate guitar player,

and the idea is once you
you've got this stuff down

that you'd then apply these new skills and
this new knowledge, into the style modules.

Now once you've done a few,
let's say five kind of style modules,

then I kind of recommend that
you move onto the next level of stuff

which I kind of call a player level, right?
Which is the five positions of scales,

and playing all over the neck,
and more complicated theory and modes

and that sort of stuff, you know?

Start to specialize a little bit more, depending
on exactly what it is that you wanna do.

So, let's go through, I've gotta have a little
list here that I'm referring to on my laptop,

otherwise I wouldn't be able to remember
all the stuff we've done to be honest,

'cause there's is quite a lot of stuff,

you've covered a lot of ground
in this course, you know.

So, first thing, chords!

You shoud have your E shape and A shape
barre chords confidently under your fingers,

both Maj, Min, Min7 and 7 chord grips,

and you shoud also have
your triad chord shapes

on the strings 1, 2 and 3, and 2, 3 and 4,
three different kind of shapes

of each of major and minor,
and be able to use them all over the neck

so, of course that kind of involves
a little bit of the kinda knowledge stuff

which is knowing the notes all over the
fingerboard, but we'll get to that in a sec.

As far as scales go, you should have the major
scale in position 1, really cool by know, you know,

you should be ready now to be looking
at the other positions of the major scale,

so you should be confident and playing
a cool solo using position 1, you know,

being able to use just one finger if you like and
well, more to the point not being restricted

to only using the set scale fingering,
that's really what I'm after.

Don't care if you can do it with one finger, but
feeling free of having to use specific fingers

to play the scale up and down.

You should have the blues scale down,
a little bit of a look at that hybrid blues scale,

and have an understanding and be able to
play it a bit with the major pentatonic scale.

Now major pentatonic is something
you'll probably explore a bit more

if you get into country guitar or
kind of more advanced blues things

but as long as you get the scales down,
particularly the major scale, that's the big one really

'cause you wanna be ready to now kind of
move through some other positions too.

Rhythm, you should be happy, kind of cool
with the 16th note thing now,

being able to use the accents,
being able to use a bit of syncopation

i.e. not always playing
on the beat all the time;

and also we kind of looked at the splangs,
and the spreads, and chips

so, you should have those, kind of
as part of your kind of repertoire

when you're playing a tune, you should be
able to kinda play those things pretty good

and also remember we looked at the picked
fingerstyle, which is a really, really usefull skill

and you're gonna find that
comes up in lots of differents styles

so, make sure you feel kind of
confident with that as well.

Now, we got knowlege stuff, you should
know every note on the fingerboard, right?

We are kinda already mentioned that,
you should really within a couple of seconds,

any note over the fingerboard
be able to name it.

Be really,really good if you can read a simple
melody in proper kind of music notation

and be confident that you can
work out stuff in the open position

that'd be, you know,
it's maybe not an essential thing,

'cause it depends on what style
modules you wanted to do

but I think that's kind of a really good
skill for all intermediate guitar players

really, to tell the truth, that's
something you should have

and also the idea of being able to
create and use melodic patterns,

that's another thing that really makes
a big difference for guitar players

is being able to kind of use that
stuff to make music out of it,

to help to kinda bridge the gap between the
scale being just a scale that you play up and down

and making it a kind of a
creative musical thing.

Technique stuff, we looked at
the minimum movement exercise

so you should have a
better control of your fingers

that's something that you
work on for years, you know,

I still working on that sort of stuff myself

making sure that my fingers aren't flying
around too much when I'm doing stuff.

You should be super confident now
playing scales with the metronome.

So, we are not really that
freaked out about the speed,

but I'm thinking really
you should be doing

two notes per click really,
kinda maybe 120, or something

at least, that it... really before you should be
graduating really from Intermediate Foundation.

So, hopefully you're at that level.
Speed's not that important,

it's more important that you're kind of
confident with the scale

and that you can play and
synchronize with the metronome

that's, syncing with the
metronome is really important.

In fact I probably should have added
some of that into the rhythm thing of...

just, you know, making sure that you
can play confidently with a metronome

with your rythm stuff,
that's also very important.

Controlling string noise is
something else we talked about

so even if you're not doing it perfectly,
you know, you're aware of what you have to do

'cause that's something that kinda
grows with experience as well so,

the longer your play the more you
kind of get used to tiding up those notes

so, that's a pretty important thing as well.

We also looked at string bending,

so, hopefully your string
bends now nicely in tune,

that you kind of confident and able to
get that with a good technique and you're not

using the finger muscles,
you're using your hand and your wrist

and you're confident with a good bend,

you know, there's lots of
stuff that goes on from that,

being able to do your bend
with vibrato and stuff,

bends that are bigger than a tone,

there's quite a few kind of
steps up above that one,

so, make sure your
bending is really confident.

And you'll also need bending for all
your blues licks and stuff as well so,

that's an important thing.

Improvising: you should be able to
improvise a solo with the major scale

the blues scale or the hybrid
scale, the major pentatonic,

you should be confident with using any finger for those improvisations and really being able to use it,

and maybe being able to be confident
playing a blues bass line as well.

So, I think there's a lot to be
learned it that little thing,

even that's blues and maybe you're not... if you're
not a blues fan, you want to play rock and stuff,

learning that blues bass line and how to
use it make up your own kind of lines with it

there's something extra, that you get from it other
than just playing the riff up and down, you know,

so, definitely stick at that one.

And also, probably last but certainly not
least, maybe even the most important,

is your "just use sound to improve now" training,
hopefully that you're cool with all of that,

you're able to transcribe some songs on
your own, and some melodies on your own,

and work out the rhythms as well,
and write down the rhythm.

That stuff, you know, the ear training stuff is
something you have to do on your own mostly,

that's why I don't spend too much time on it during
the lessons, because it's a YOU thing, you know,

I can't give that to you, only you, you can get it,
you can go and get it, but I can't give it to you.

It's really about you practising
and you putting your head down

and getting in there and doing it, you know,
there's no substitute for it, with transcribing

other than just sitting down and doing it, over and
over again, until you get the result that you want,

which is being able to learn songs yourself by ear,

and that's a really, really important skill.

So, if you've let that one past you by,
get back in there and get stuck into,

using the Justin Training Exercises to help you,
'cause it's kind of a foot up to transcribing,

it's not like in the real world transcribing,
you don't know what... it could be anything!

you know, you got no clues.

Whereas with this stuff at least I'm giving you
a kind of a roundabout thing

and say "look, it's gonna use this scale,
or these chord shapes, or whatever",

makes it a lot easier.

So, that's what you shoud have got.
Now, that's a lot of stuff there,

there's a lot of ground there,
now, if there's a few bits missing,

make up your own little practice routine,

and go through and start working
on the things that're still lacking.

You might wanna check the website
for the intermediate practice routine

which is a really well structured
little routine,

introduces some new exercises,
which are all on the site in the free part in the

technique department particularly,

so, you might wanna start
checking those out and then

plug in any of these other things
that you're still not confident with,

put those things into that routine,
and make sure that you get all of these

kinda signed off, if you like,
before you move on to the other stuff.

It really makes a difference if you kinda...
if you can draw a line under this and go:

"yeah, I can do all this stuff."
That's really good, you know, that's a great thing.

Get a few styles under your fingers and
then you'll be a really solid intermediate player,

and at that point that I would really say
kinda, you know, you can play guitar!

And that's a cool thing to be
able to say to yourself, you know,

so... look, I really hope you've enjoyed the course,

thanks for doing it, thanks for
supporting justinguitar and, you know,

hope a lot of you have checked out the DVD

and got some benefit from that extra
lessons that I've added to that one as well,

I'll see you for all of the styles stuff really soon

and then eventually more
advanced player things too

so look, take care of yourselves,
have a great time, enjoy your guitar

and I'll see you for more lessons, real soon.

Take care dudes, bye-bye!