Intermediate Electric Level 5
Solid Lead Guitar
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About this course
Ready to leave the pentatonic box behind and start playing like an actual musician? This fifth module of the Intermediate Electric Guitar Course is where theory stops being abstract and starts living in your fingers — connecting scales, intervals, and technique into a single coherent picture of the fretboard.
Key Focus Areas:
Technique & Finger Independence: Build three-finger hammer-on and flick-off combinations, and add the chromatic scale exercise as your new benchmark for measuring real progress.
Fretboard Navigation: Extend the E minor and A minor pentatonic superhighways to their full range across the neck, and start thinking in connected shapes rather than isolated boxes.
The Major Scale: Learn shape one in two octaves, understand intervals as the numbering system behind all of music theory, and apply the three-note pattern to make your scales sound like actual music.
The Minor Scales — Properly Explained: Cover the natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor in one lesson, understand exactly what changes between them, and know which one to use and when.
Intonation & Expressive Playing: Train your bends to actually hit the target note using a tuner and song-based exercises from Tom Petty, John Mayer, and Dave Gilmour.
Arctic Monkeys Player Study: Bring everything together over an Arctic Monkeys-style jam track in F sharp — two riffs to learn, and an open invitation to start improvising off the pentatonic for the first time.
What our students say
I first picked up the guitar just over 6 months ago and have been learning completely through Andy's videos on his app. It's great to have so many practice songs with the chords and strumming patterns broken down.
I have been playing for a couple of years now and felt that the Beginner's course might be too easy, but I decided to do the lessons anyway. I am amazed at how much I learned!
I could never have dreamed that in a short space of time I would actually be playing along with some of my favourite songs, but I am and I'm loving it. It's so much easier to learn chords while having fun learning songs, I'm hooked!
Andy's emphasis on learning to play along to real songs and have fun as quickly as possible taught me to make the most of everything I learnt and gave me the confidence to play in public and even to start writing and recording my own songs!
The website with the dashboard facility is brilliant! It has allowed me to keep a close tab on my lessons and practice plans. Keep up the excellent work Andy and team!
When my grandchildren ask me about what I did during the pandemic, I'm going to tell them about how I got stuck at my parents' house learning something I always wanted... music. I can't thank Andy enough!
