Well you've done it: you've reached the end. This is the last lesson in my beginners course.
I really hope you've enjoyed this journey and you've probably learnt a whole lot of stuff
but you'll probably find that there are quite a few things that you haven't quite mastered yet.
Now I don't know what they are.
I can kind of guess that most people struggle with this or struggle with that
and try and help you out with things along the way
but when it's got to this point you need
to now look back on all of the things that we have covered
and work out what are the things that you haven't mastered yet.
What I have done is on the website BC199
which is the consolidation page for the beginners course.
I've got a list of all the things
that we've covered during this course
So what you really need to do now
is to go back and look at everything
on that list and make sure you know it.
Make sure all of the chords are in your memory
They are no good if you only know them on the website
Or if you have to look them up in a chord book
You need have them in here
It's the same with the scales, same with everything
the songs included, you need to know the songs all the way through
so it's a really important stage
go through make a list of all the things
that are written on the consolidation page
that you can't do.
And then write your own routine depending
on how much time you have available that
covers all those things starting with easier things
then moving on to the harder things.
Now that might take another 6 months
it might take a week or a month
I have no idea, it depends on how far
you've got with each of those elements of the course.
Different people have extremely different abilities
some people rip through one thing
and really struggle with something else.
and another person will really easily do that thing the other guy found hard
One thing I've learnt as a teacher over the years is that people
really struggle with the weirdest things to me
and excel at other things.
It's freaky how different we all are
but that is maybe one of the beautiful things
about us humans as well.
So have a good go through that beginners course
consolidate the information that you've got there
and then you are ready to then to try
and progress onto other areas.
You might find that if your really enjoyed the
strumming and the rhythm stuff
you might want to check out my
Really Useful Strumming Techniques DVD
or some of the other strumming lessons that I've
got on the website, there's quite a few
different styles and techniques you can check out
If you enjoyed the lead guitar things we touched on
you might want to check out the Blues Lead Guitar course
which is available free online or as a DVD
Make sure you use that with the backing tracks
that's the secret to that.
If you really enjoyed the transcribing idea
and you've been really getting into this
J.U.S.T.I.N technique exercises then
that's the kind of thing that you want to really develop
now that you've finished the course
and transcribing as many songs as you can.
If you want help with that there is a transcribing
section on the website with song tips.
That would be a very good area of the website
for you to check out now that you've
finished your beginers course.
If you really want to do the Blues
another thing you might want to check out,
sorry for pushing all my products on you
but i also have some Solo Blues pieces
there are some for free on the site and
also some DVDs you can buy and you might find
that useful as well as a place to move onto doing.
After this first stage that you've
done now the Beginners Course you can firmly draw
a line that you have covered all of the
beginners material. I've been really careful
about the construction of this course
and I really think I've covered most of the bases
of things that I would expect a beginner guitar
player to have learnt and you'll now be on the
Intermediate journey for which there is
masses of information. You really have to decide
a little bit more now what things you want to do.
Whether you want to do Rock or Blues or Metal or lead guitar or solo or whether you
want to get a bit more into Jazzy themes or whatever
you have start specialising a little bit when it
comes to the intermediate stage, because there
is so, so many things to learn.
The one thing that I find really weird is
the more stuff I learn the more I learn that
I don't know anything at all, and there are
still millions of things left to learn, you never stop.
that's, I think one of the most beautiful things about
playing a guitar is that even when you think
you've mastered something you look over and there
is someone else doing some even crazier stuff
that you've got to learn.
Which is I reckon a really cool thing.
So I really hope you've enjoyed
this Beginners Course and I hope one day
that I get to meet you and you can give me some
suggestions. If you get stuck on anything
by the way don't forget about the forum.
Every lesson on the website has a link to
a specific topic on the forum which just
deals with that one class so if you are
getting stuck with any particular thing
whether it's 12 bar rhythm or improvising
or whatever you can go there and either get
help from me, one of the hundreds or thousands
of other people that use the forum and
you can also drop me any advice like you found
that really hard or that difficult and maybe
I can add it into the website element of this
course to help some other people.
So do feel free to drop by the forum and offer
advice and ask questions and all that.
It's a really nice community of people
So take care of yourselves and a big thank you to Jedi
for all his hard work, filming and editing and bringing
this content to you and
take care, be safe and be kind!