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Make a 3 minute video of yourself playing your favorite Beatles song on guitar. Post it to YouTube and send us an email with the link to your video. We’re looking for 20 to 25 students for each show (50 max total) who are Beginning, Intermediate or Advance. Students accepted to the program will spend 4 to 6 months learning the material for the shows, leading up to the Arizona Tour. Classes will meet online once per week, exclusive arrangements of the songs will be made available to the students before the classes & each month there will be a Beatles Guitar Project Guitar Convention in the Arizona region. Our Artistic Director will fly in at the end of each month to meet the Students of the Arizona Beatles Guitar Project, and will teach two class sessions in person. Students need to attend a majority of these in person Guitar Conventions to be on the show.
phoenix aUDITION rEQUIREMENTS
Beginning Students
- Must have an acoustic guitar, preferably a nylon string guitar, or an electric guitar with a small practice amp.
- Should know all basic open chords on the guitar: A, AM7,A7, Am, Am7, B7, Bm, Bm7, C, CM7, C7, D, DM7, D7, Dm, Dm7, E, EM7, E7, Em, Em7, F, F7, FM7, G, G7 Gm7
- should have been playing guitar for a minimum of 1 year. Have some command of your instrument and be able to strum guitar & use a pick.
Beginning students will learn more about chords & rhythms, & how to play barre chords during classes; will also learn how to read some tab & introduction to reading notes on the music staff.
Intermediate Students
- Must have an acoustic guitar, preferably a nylon string guitar, or an electric guitar with a small practice amp.
- Must know all basic open chords on the guitar: A, AM7,A7, Am, Am7, B7, Bm, Bm7, C, CM7, C7, D, DM7, D7, Dm, Dm7, E, EM7, E7, Em, Em7, F, F7, FM7, G, G7 Gm7. Barre Chords such as: B7, Bm, Bm7, C7, Cm7, C#m, C#m7 C#7… etc.
- Must be good at power chords and locating positions going up the neck. Have good command of your instrument and be able to strum guitar & use a Pick & have probably been playing guitar for 1 to 3 years.
Intermediate students will learn more about chords & rhythms, & how to add 9th’s, Sus2, Sus4, add 6th’s, 11th’s, #5’s, Diminished Chords, Fully Diminished 7th chords, Augmented Chords.
Intermediate Students may have prior knowledge of reading tablature. But will learn more about reading tablature printed below classically written music & learn more about registers, positions & chord inversions.
Intermediate Students have probably taken at least a year of private lessons.
Advanced Students
- Must have an acoustic guitar, preferably a nylon string guitar, or an electric guitar with a small practice amp.
- Must have great command of all basic open chords on the guitar: Have very good command of their Barre Chords & demonstrate significant hand strength in their chord hand, and dexterity. Advanced Students will have good control of their picking hand, and be able to use a pick well. Must have control of power chords and locating chord positions going up the neck.
Advanced students will learn more about chords & rhythms, & how to add 9th’s, Sus2, Sus4, add 6th’s, 11th’s, #5’s, Diminished Chords, Fully Diminished 7th chords, Augmented Chords.
Advanced Students may have prior knowledge of reading tablature. But will learn more about reading tablature printed below classically written music & learn more about registers, positions & chord inversions.
Advanced Students will be expected to learn some lead & secondary lead parts of songs.
Advanced Students have most likely been playing guitar for at least 3 to 5 years, & have probably taken a couple years of private lessons.
Tuition
Monthly tuition
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Quarterly Tuition
Weekly Online Live Streams-
Video Lesson Assets
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Video Lesson PDFs Music
full phoenix show package
Full 6 Month Program-
Announcements for Convention Locations TBA.
What not to bring
To the conventions
- Do NOT bring any amp with more than One Speaker.
- No Fender Twins. No Two Twelves.No Half Stacks.
- No 50 to 100 Watt Amplifiers!!! No Pedal Boards!
- No FX Processors.
- No BASS Rigs. No Bassists.
- Don’t bring your pet.
- And don’t bring any attitude… we’re just here to play some Beatles Music and have a great time doing so. This is not a competition.
*No Double Necks (Please for the love of John & Paul… if someone brings a double neck guitar, I’m literally going to die of laughter, laughing at YOU!)
The Beatles Guitar Project Worldwide
Want to audit the program?
Anyone, is invited to join in weekly Beatles Guitar Project Live Stream lessons for a monthly tuition of $40. Each month you’ll have access to arrangements of the month, to participate in the lessons. Weekly lessons are 30 mins each week. And the weekly lesson will be available to watch live or on replay when needed. Students will also have access to select video lesson assets as well as Beatles Guitar Project videos to play along with. This is a great way to learn more about playing guitar, while learning songs from the greatest rock and roll band of all time: The Beatles!