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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