Advanced Acoustic Course

11 tunes | 88 Step-By-Step Guitar Lessons

In the advanced acoustic guitar course, we find huge chord extensions and unique chords using open strings. A few solos are incorporated as well, sometimes as overdubs, sometimes played completely on their own.

There is complete TAB for every single note played in the videos above but that’s just the beginning. Alongside learning the songs you will also be learning all about modes, arpeggios, and how to accurately name complex chords.

Perhaps most importantly, we create 2nd guitar parts for most of these songs, enabling you to play along with me and the singers as if we were a band.

This will not just teach you how to play these songs, but also how to write similar songs and guitar parts yourself.

Even though you as a member have unlimited access to all these lessons, I recommend you experience them in the order displayed below and practice all material in the 8 step-by-step lessons per tune.

#1 – Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here 8 step by step lessons

In this first series of lessons from the advanced acoustic course, we learn how to play Wish You Were Here step-by-step.

As this is not too difficult we also work on our minor and major pentatonic scales, play the intro licks, and the vocal melody in all shapes.

#2 – Sunshine Of Your Love

Sunshine Of Your Love 8 step by step lessons

The most difficult part of playing Sunshine Of Your Love is the solo. All those huge bends have to be changed to work on the acoustic guitar.

Learning the riff, the turnaround, and practising the blues scale is in comparison super simple, this is a proper classic with so much to teach us.

#3 – Take Me To The River

Take Me to The River 8 step by step lessons

Take Me To The River is complex to grasp since what we attempt here is to replicate an entire soul band on just one acoustic guitar.

To get there, we simply break all of it down into smaller chunks and practice each part as an individual loop.

#4 – I Shot The Sheriff

I Shot The Sheriff 8 step by step lessons

To play I Shot The Sheriff on just one guitar, we must study what the bass is playing on the original recording.

Once this is established, everything else falls into place. After learning the complete song, we also play the vocal melody, in harmony!

#5 – Cannonball

When we learn Cannonball, we play with a capo on frets 6 and 1. Each position gives us a different advantage, put together, we have a 2 guitar arrangement.

As well as playing the tune in two ways, we also practice the Aeolian mode. It’s essential to learn modes in the context of a song like this.

#6 – Roxanne

Roxanne is, once you can play the verse, pretty easy. We’ll learn how to play it in just four steps in the course.

Following this, we play the vocal melody, practice Aeolian, and improvise using the mode over the verse progression.

#7 – Angels

Robbie Williams’s Angels is an adventure in playing big, piano-like, guitar parts. Easier than it sounds, we achieve this in just four steps.

Following this, we play the vocal melody, practice the Ionian mode, and fit all our CAGED chords around each scale shape.

#8 – Scarborough Fair

The most difficult aspect of the Dorian-sounding composition Scarborough Fair, is to play at the original tempo. To get there, we practice at different tempos.

Following this, we develop a 2nd guitar part, practice Dorian, and develop the vocal melody. This will hammer home the sound of the Dorian mode.

#9 – Over The Rainbow

To play Over The Rainbow, like Eva Cassidy did, exactly note-for-note, can only be achieved by breaking down each section and practising along with loops.

Before we do this, we look at how she developed it from a simple melody, via jazz, into her incredible version. We also practice Lydian.

#10 – Blackbird

Blackbird by The Beatles is a legendary song that we simply must learn note-for-note, just like Paul McCartney played it.

Once this is achieved, we can learn from Blackbird by building a 2nd guitar part and playing the tune together, like a folk duo.

#11 – Tears In Heaven

Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton has been transcribed note-for-note. The part is so well written that it stands up on its own, without the band.

The 2nd guitar has some excellent licks which have been transcribed, developed, and combined with some bass lines and extra chords.

40 Advanced Tunes | Guitar Lessons + TAB

When you complete the 11 tunes above using the step-by-step lessons, you may want more of the same, rather than move on to more complicated songs.

To cater for this, I’ve transcribed 40 more advanced songs. here’s a list (with links) to all of them.