Skills & Techniques

This course will focus on the two most important barre chord shapes you will need 99% of your time playing. This just may be the guitar game changer you are looking for.

This course will show your guitar's shape shifting powers. For these lessons your guitar will take the form of a banjo. You will learn open G tuning, how to use fingerpicks, and banjo specific techniques that you can employ on your guitar. Once you have gone through this course you will feel the power of the banjo coursing through your veins, into your picking fingers, and out of your guitar. Get ready because these techniques are sure to incite a spontaneous hoedown.

Welcome to the Capo Comprehension Course!!! This is a course that will teach you the ins, outs, and arounds of the capo. You will be taken on a tour de force of the capo and how it can benefit your playing in so many ways. Upon completing this course you will be able to confidently apply the capo, adjust it for voice matching, adjust it to transpose to the chord shapes you want, and you will learn some more unconventional ways of using the capo. Once you have gone through these lessons you can consider yourself a capo connoisseur!!!

This fingerpicking jumpstart course will take you from not knowing a thing about fingerpicking all the way to playing your first song in this highly addictive guitar style. This course will help you see finger style as a combination of many small and easy moving parts that when combined make your guitar sound like a piano. This course will help you conquer the alternating thumb, integrate pinches, understand how eighth notes work, and how to incorporate chord modifications; all necessary parts of the finger style pie. When you are done with this course you will understand some of the why’s and how’s of basic finger style technique.

This bootcamp is designed to be a workout for honing in and sharpening your fingerpicking skills. It will no doubt be a challenge and that being the case it is truly rewarding. This is designed to progress you through each component of fingerpicking from exercises based solely on thumb movement all the way to rolls and even some fingerpicking obstacle courses. This bootcamp is meant to be a resource for you to come back through time and time again, in fact I would recommend popping into this bootcamp at least every other month because it will help keep those fingerpicking skills at the ready for anything that comes your way.

This flatpicking quick start course will take you from not knowing anything about flatpicking technique all the way to playing your first song in this traditional guitar style. This course will help you understand how to properly hold a flatpick, and then use that proper grip to execute a smooth down and up stroke. You will also learn the golden rule of flatpicking, which will unlock the door to the magical flat picking world. String skipping, two essential major scales, and mixed note values will also be discussed to prepare you to learn the staple jam tune, Billy in the Lowground.

Welcome to the Fretting Hand Toolbox Course. This is a place where fretting hand fingers learn to fly. In this course you will unlock the potential of your fiery fretters by working on hammer ons, pull offs, slides, bends, and even harmonics. This course is packed full of great info for folks who are just getting familiar with these techniques and it even has exercises to help those who want to take these techniques further. This course is your one way ticket to nailing these techniques so they no longer strike fear into your heart when you see their special symbols on tablature.

This course will help you learn how to tackle the wonderful technique known as hybrid picking. This technique will have you using your flatpick in conjunction with your picking hand fingers to create a fingerpicking effect all while holding a flatpick. Also, this technique will open up a world of opportunities in the chicken pickin', country, and blues realms.

This collection of jam-along songs is your fast track to getting the real feel of a jam. There won't be tabs, chord charts, or lyrics... instead I will verbally teach you the song, and then you will have the chance to play along just like at a jam. By going through these songs time and time again you will hone your jam skills and your ear. You will have a chance to play both rhythm guitar and take a solo if you wish. Welcome to the most low-pressure version of in-person jamming you will ever experience... one more added benefit, this library will help you build the confidence to start jamming with others, maybe join a jam group, or even start your own official TAC Jam Club.

You clicked on this course, which means your inner guitar geek is wanting to play with other like-minded guitar geeks. This course will provide a step-by-step anxiety easing path to playing with other folks. Topics covered in this course range from what to expect at a jam, the "rules" of a jam, what to play at a jam, and you'll even encounter a real-life jamming scenario within the course. After you take this course you will feel empowered and have the confidence to take your next steps toward one of the most fun things that can happen to any guitar geek on a guitar journey. Get ready to amaze yourself and make some serious guitar geek connections.

In this course Tony Furtado will show you how to play some beginner slide guitar Blues with fingerstyle technique. Lessons include: Left Hand technique in using a slide, Right Hand technique for fingerstyle picking, putting them together in a familiar nursery rhyme melody, and finally playing through a Blues Shuffle.