Learn Guitar Essentials Online

Students taking this course will receive 1-on-1 instruction from Carlos Caminos for 60 minutes each week for 36 weeks. Each student will receive unique, individualized instruction based upon their specific music learning needs. Students will learn to play rhythms using a pick or even fingerpicking. Students will learn simple scales to move up and down the fretboard: playing with patterns on the guitar. Carlos will assess each student's current level and help them learn to play their favorite songs.

Students will learn the first chords i.e. putting the notes together, playing Arpeggios - right-hand technique, learn to improvise with scales: the game of speaking with musical notes. Carlos will also help students compare different types of music - Classical Music, Blues, Folk, Jazz. By end on this course, Carlos will help students make their own song: by helping them combine the different chord structures and scales.

About the Instructor: Carlos Caminos is a performer, teacher, and composer with over 20 years of experience. Beginning his first lessons at age 9, Carlos has turned his passion into a life long carrier. The experience acquired from innumerable hours of practice and study, rehearsals, performances and teaching, have made it possible to develop the most effective strategies for students to learn and develop their art form. This is why he focuses on giving students the essential instructions that will increase the student's understanding of music and allow them to take charge of their creative process.

Carlos Caminos has worked in projects that include Jazz, Rock, Latin Folk, Performing Arts, Flamenco, Raggae, Tango, Latin Music. He studied Flamenco in Granada, Spain with local teachers and is currently finishing a certificate program in Music Composition for Film and TV with Berklee College of Music. He has been a life long student and continues to be a learner. His lessons comprise useful information for students with an earnest intention to learn.