Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Professional Guitar Teaching with a Certificate from Berklee

Learn to play guitar in less than four months. Everything you need to know to play your favorite songs.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Communication skills
  • Troubleshooting
  • Critical thinking
  • Teamwork
  • Time management
  • creativity
  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Data analysis ability
  • leadership
  • Information technologies

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Guitar musician
  • Guitar teacher
  • Music producer
  • Songwriter
  • Band players
  • A musician performs
  • Session musician
  • Artistic Director

Internship – a four-part course series

Have you always wanted to play guitar, but didn’t know where to start? Whether you’re just starting out or want to brush up on your skills, the Guitar Techniques Specialization from Berklee College of Music will help you practice the techniques needed to improve your playing.

The internship process

  • Internship duration: 16 weeks
  • Building a solid foundation by learning and practicing:
    • Major scales
    • Minor scales
    • Pentatonic scales
    • Triads
    • Chords
  • Improvisation practice
  • Writing melodies and melodies
  • Playing according to sheet music

At the end of the internship, you will have the skills and confidence to perform your favorite songs in front of an audience.

Hands-on Learning Project

  • During the internship, you will practice and perform various techniques and skills on the guitar including:
    • Ladders
    • Chords
    • Streaming
    • amputation
  • Practicing new skills on the guitar neck and in different positions
  • Performing rhythm and melody lines while reading from sheet music
  • Using tablature and notation

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Guitar for beginners

Course 1

  • 22 hours
  • 4.8 (2,245 ratings)
Course Details
What you will learn:
  • Identify string names and numbers and read notes, tablature, chord diagrams, and detail charts
  • Practice playing with a pick, playing with fingers, and streaming patterns
  • Play various chords including major and minor triads, open chords, barre and chord building
  • Read and play according to the instruction sheet
Skills you will acquire:
  • Category: Guitar
  • Category: Guitar Scales
  • Category: Musical notes
  • Category: Tablature
  • Category: Guitar Chords

Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions

  • Course 2
  • 14 hours
  • 4.7 (384 ratings)
Course Details
What you will learn:
  • Play scales in a mobile open position
  • Identify and play major, minor, diminished, and augmented arpeggios
  • Add rhythmic beat to arpeggios and streaming to improve your playing
Skills you will acquire:
  • Category: Guitar
  • Category: Guitar Scales
  • Category: Musical notes
  • Category: Tablature
  • Category: Guitar Chords

Guitar chord voicings: playing on the top part

  • Course 3
  • 9 hours
  • 4.7 (53 ratings)
Course Details
What you will learn:
  • Look at the instruction sheet and play whizzing chords
  • Build triads, 7th chords and inversions
  • Play and know the frets of different chord types such as major triad, minor triad, dominant 7th and gospel chords
  • Play triads over basic notes
Skills you will acquire:
  • Category: Guitar
  • Category: Music
  • Category: Playing the guitar
  • Category: Musical notes
  • Category: Guitar Chords

Guitar performance techniques

  • Course 4
  • 10 hours
  • 4.5 (49 ratings)
Course Details
What you will learn:
  • Develop warm-up techniques to prepare for playing in an ensemble
  • Identify and play accompaniment to common chords
  • Demonstrate playing techniques in the ensemble during the performance
Skills you will acquire:
  • Category: Guitar
  • Category: Music
  • Category: Performance Techniques
  • Category: Guitar Chords
  • Category: Hearing Training