Welcome to Alex Gordon Hi-Fi's
SELF-CONTAINED GUITAR
& BARITONIC GUITAR!
LEARN to play chords, melodies, bass lines, and percussion parts SIMULTANEOUSLY!
NO MORE LOOP PEDALS OR BACKING TRACKS - EVER!!
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Guitar Casual Coffee Hour
1st & 3rd Thursdays of every month, 8pm ET
This is a relaxed, informal group discussion for Self-Contained & Baritonic Guitar methods, equipment, techniques, songwriting, performing, etc. Special guests are in store as well.
All are welcome to chime in or just listen in - No pressure!
$10 to attend or FREE if you sign up for our Patreon.
THE CRUX Video Lesson Course
Master the FOUNDATION of SELF-CONTAINED GUITAR
and Traditional Guitar, with this ALL-NEW
user-friendly, self-paced video class.
BARITONIC NOCTURNE
weekly livestream
Join us EVERY SATURDAY, 10pm ET
"unwind your Saturday, the Baritonic way"
available on the ALEX GORDON HI-FI youtube channel
Private Online Guitar Lessons
I have begun teaching PRIVATE guitar lessons at NEW REDUCED RATES through an online music studio called Tunelark and I am currently accepting new students.
All skill levels, all ages welcome. First lesson features a 50% discount.
Click either image below if you’d like to start today.
What is SELF-CONTAINED GUITAR?
Self-Contained Guitar is exactly what it sounds like - a method of playing the guitar that requires no other instrument for support or accompaniment. A Self-Contained Guitarist relies entirely on themselves for rhythm, bass, harmony, and/or lead instrumentation. A Self-Contained approach to playing the guitar allows one guitarist to do all of the work of a band on one solitary instrument. It may sound unrealistic and impossible to pull off such an ambitious endeavor, but it actually isn’t. In fact, innovative guitarists such as Snoozer Quinn, Bill Harris, Luiz Bonfá, Ted Greene, Chet Atkins, Paulinho Nogueira, Stanley Jordan, Tommy Crook, Baden Powell, Elizabeth Cotten and Tuck Andress (to name but a few) have been employing a Self-Contained approach to playing the guitar for close to 100 years.
Self-Contained Guitar version of "You May Be Right" by Billy Joel
MODULE 1 is the first chapter of
Self- Contained Guitar and consists of 3 classes:
The Crux - Essential Music Theory
Picking Hand Basics - Elemental Fingerstyle Maneuvers
Create Your Own Arrangements - Fundamental Arranging Techniques
Self-Contained Guitar - Module 1 establishes a solid foundation
for any budding Self-Contained Guitarist.
SIDE EFFECTS of Self-Contained Guitar - Module 1
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cognizant retention of the notes on fretboard
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capability to map out and perform the major scale in any of the twelve keys
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aptitude for building any major, minor, or diminished triad & find it on the fretboard
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capacity to transpose or change keys of songs
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dexterity with various fingerpicking techniques
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ability to devise basic solo guitar arrangements from a piece of music
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proficiency performing two separate parts (bass & melody) on one instrument
ARE YOU A BEGINNING SONGWRITER,
COMPOSER, RHYTHM OR LEAD GUITARIST WHO
DOESN'T WANT TO STRICTLY PLAY SOLO GUITAR?
Self-Contained Guitar - Module 1 can also help you if you are:
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a songwriting guitarist seeking fretboard knowledge and major scale/chord construction
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a guitarist who prefers using a plectrum as opposed to fingerpicking
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a guitarist with solid chord/scale knowledge but wants to develop fingerpicking skills
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a fingerpicking guitarist who wants to develop chord/scale knowledge
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a lead guitarist who wants to enhance guitar solos with major scale/chord comprehension
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a songwriter/composer who wants to explore song analysis to strengthen composition skills
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