LEARN YOUR FAVORITE SONGSBecome A Professional Guitarist With Our Courses
GSS School of Music offers specially crafted courses for Guitar learning. This course comprise of three levels of difficulty – Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. Depending on the complexity, background knowledge and practical skills, students can choose a level that suits their method of learning. The only pre-requisites to start with the Guitar learning course is a genuine interest in music, dedication to practice, devotion to learn and passion to perform.
LEARN YOUR FAVORITE SONGSBecome A Professional Guitarist With Our Courses
GSS School of Music offers specially crafted courses for Guitar learning. This course comprise of three levels of difficulty – Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. Depending on the complexity, background knowledge and practical skills, students can choose a level that suits their method of learning. The only pre-requisites to start with the Guitar learning course is a genuine interest in music, dedication to practice, devotion to learn and passion to perform.
BEGINNER COURSE
Specially crafted for students and people who have no background in music. The course aims at getting all the basic things right. However, this course is also suitable for those people who can play an instrument but do not know of any theoretical concepts. The basic level of instrumental course ensures that a student is affluent with theoretical concepts of music, is proficient with ear training and has a certain level of comfort and competency with the instrument of choice. In addition to the above, this course also acts as a refresher course for those who have been out of touch with music and their choice of instrument.
Curriculum:
• Basic Terminologies
• Tuning the Guitar
• Right & Left-Hand Exercises
• Anatomy & Types of Guitars
• Guitar Buying Guidance
• Reading Music (Tabulature & Notations)
• Understanding Music Learning Apps
• Counting Basic Rhythms
• Easy Songs (Melodies)
• Understanding the Fretboard
• Scales / Ragas
• Basic Chords
• Broken Chords (Arpeggios)
• Simple Strumming Patterns
• Easy Songs (Chords)
• Finger Development Exercises
• Basic Music Theory
• Performing for Recordings & Videos
• Skill Tests
• General Music Knowledge
• Guidance for Improvement in Clarity & Rhythm
• Performance Guidance
INTERMEDIATE COURSE
This intermediate course is specially designed for students who are comfortable with their instrument, have a good knowledge of music theory and its concepts, and want to strive towards becoming a perfectionist. However, to join or proceed to this level, students need to present their skills in a skill test that will be assessed by the faculty of GSS School of Music. The intermediate level provides a platform for the students to master previously learnt skills and learn extra moves taught by the faculty for better speed and effectiveness. The students will also be provided with a customised course plan by the faculty that they will have to follow.
Curriculum:
• Basics Revision
• Chords (dim, aug, 7th, add, sus)
• Barre Chords & Movable Positions
• Fretboard Exercises
• Transposing
• More Scales / Ragas
• Speed Development
• Staff Notation Basics
• Chord Progressions
• Basic Articulations (Slides, Hammer-Ons, Pull-Offs)
• Counting Complex Rhythms
• Understanding Off-Beats & Syncopation
• Challenging Songs (Melodies & Chords)
• Understanding Guitar Oriented Genres & Styles
• Fingerstyle Exercises
• Simple Songs (Fingerstyle)
• Power Chords & Palm Muting
• Basics of Guitar Recording
• Introduction to Guitar Effects
• Complex Strumming Patterns
• Types of Tunings
• Time Signatures / Talas
• Natural Harmonics
• Intervals
• Introduction to Ear Training
• Easy Guitar Solos
• Understanding Song Structures
• Performing for Recordings & Videos
• Skill Tests (Theory & Practical)
• General Music Knowledge
• Guidance for Improvement in Clarity & Rhythm
• Performance Guidance
ADVANCE COURSE
The advanced level of instrumental learning courses is a top-tier course that is both performance and evaluation based. This level of learning requires an in-depth understanding and evaluation of music by the students. Needless to say, ascending to this level from the intermediate level requires a pass from the skill test that will be devised by the faculty for students. Apart from learning advanced and complex music, the advanced level goes a step further to train the students to be the best performers that aid them to be professional musicians in the future and further help them compose their own songs.
Curriculum:
• Bends
• Trill
• Grace Notes (Gamakas)
• Dynamics
• Challenging Songs (Melodies & Rhythm)
• Modes of Scales (Janya Ragas)
• Hybrid & Travis Picking
• Legato Licks
• Tremolo Picking
• 1 Hand & 2 Hand Tapping
• Double Stops
• Slapping & Popping
• Harmonizing
• Types Fretboards, Pickups & Bridges
• Artificial Harmonics (Tapped & Pinch)
• Cascading Harmonics
• Extended Chords & Complex Chords
• Stretching Exercises
• Understanding the Types of Amplifiers
• In-depth Understanding of Guitar Effects
• Guitar Effect Processors
• Setting up Tones for Recording & Live
• Challenging Guitar Solos
• Studio Setups
• Installing DAWs & Plugins
• In-Depth Recording & Editing
• Programming Drums, Bass & Keys
• Basics of Mixing & Mastering
• Advanced Ear Training
• Open Tunings
• Challenging Fingerstyle Songs
• Arrangement & Composition
• Improvisation & Creative Playing
• Guitar Setup & Maintainance Guidance
• Live Performances
• Skill Test (Theory & Practical)
• Performing for Recordings & Videos
• Improvement Tips