ArtistWorks Summer Series—Week 4: David Butler

 

Welcome to the fourth week of the ArtistWorks Summer Series! Every week this summer, we’ll be dropping new lessons, performances, study materials, and more from some of your favorite ArtistWorks teachers.

 

This week, we’re excited to debut over 8 hours of brand new online acoustic guitar lessons designed specifically for beginners and first-time players by lifelong guitarist, co-founder of ArtistWorks, and the creator of Video Exchange Learning®, David Butler.

 

David’s new lessons cover material that spans the entire range of his beginner acoustic guitar curriculum—outlining exciting new techniques, warm-up exercises, and tunes, all with amazing additional materials to supplement your learning. With these new lessons, David’s course now features a total of over 35 hours of video content.

 

Alongside David’s video instruction, these lessons include brand new learning materials to supplement David’s teaching, including tablature, notation, performance videos, and more. Furthermore, in addition to new lessons on a variety of techniques and concepts, David also teaches how to play seven classic tunes, including “Angel from Montgomery,” “Blackbird,” “Big Yellow Taxi,” “Scarborough Fair,” and more.

 

If you’re a current student of David’s, dive in now and enjoy learning these brand new techniques and tunes. There’s never been a better time to roll up your sleeves and start playing…

 

Exercises & Musical Concepts:

Warm-Up Exercises

Stretching Exercises

Musical Concepts: Chromatic Patterns

5 Songs You Should Probably Know

Embellishing a Song with Travis Picking

Finger Picks

Altered Tunings

How to Get Into Open D Tuning

How to Get Out of Open D Tuning (Back to Standard E Tuning)

 

New Tunes:

New Tune: “Angel From Montgomery”

New Tune: “Ho Hey”

New Tune: “Blackbird”

New Tune: “Ballad of a Crystal Man”

New Tune: “Scarborough Fair”

New Tune: “On Doing an Evil Deed Blues”

New Tune: “Big Yellow Taxi”

 

We’ll be announcing new content from one of the following ArtistWorks teachers next week, so keep an eye on our social media channels like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter so you don’t miss our next surprise artist:

 

Guthrie Trapp Electric Country Guitar

Michael Daves Bluegrass Vocals

Caterina LichtenbergClassical Mandolin

 

READ MORE:

Beginner Acoustic Guitar Lesson: Playing Without a Pick with David Butler

Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson: Learn to Play “Rylynn” with Andy McKee

The 7 Pitfalls of Private Music Lessons, and How Video Exchange Can Help