{"product_id":"guitar-fundamentals-with-rabea-massaad","title":"Guitar Fundamentals with Rabea Massaad","description":"\u003cp\u003eRabea Massaad's complete course, for complete beginners who want a proper foundation and for self-taught players who want to fill the gaps in their playing. It starts with how to hold the guitar and builds to 3 solos over the same backing track, the last using all 5 pentatonic positions and a tapping line. Practice lessons follow the chords, scales and techniques, and it ends with 49 licks and riffs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you learn\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSetup: the guitar, strings and tuning, the pick, fretting, notes on the fretboard, the metronome.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChords: power, major, minor, barre, sus, 7th, 9th, octave and blues chords, and the CAGED system.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe minor pentatonic and blues scale in all 5 positions, joined into one run, then the major pentatonic, major and minor scales, harmonic minor and Phrygian dominant.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe modes: think of each one as the major or minor scale with a note or two changed, and those notes give it its sound. Each has an exercise over a drone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTechnique: alternate and hybrid picking, palm and left-hand muting, bending, sliding, vibrato, legato, harmonics, tapping, string skipping and speed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRhythm: counting 16th notes on the grid, triplet accents, left-hand muting for funk rock, and 5s and 7s over a straight beat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStyles and tone: reggae, funk, blues and djent in drop C, and a pedalboard tour of distortion, flanger, phaser, reverb and delay.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlaying: 3 solos over the same backing track, finding the key and improvising, staying motivated, playing live, then 49 licks, riffs and progressions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e186 lessons, 16.5 hours of video. Beginner to advanced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne payment, no subscription, and a 30-day refund.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Musicisum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53690392019268,"sku":"MGMC01","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/4669\/0884\/files\/modern-guitar-techniques-with-rabea-massaad.jpg?v=1794247341","url":"https:\/\/musicisum.com\/products\/guitar-fundamentals-with-rabea-massaad","provider":"Musicisum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}