About this app

★Android teaches you Folk, Blues and Jazz Guitar ★


This real guitar method will give you great informations & technics to improve your guitar skill. No musical knowledge is required to use this app, you just need a guitar.

This app supports english - try E-Folk (english, french, german, spanish), E-Blues (english, french) or E-Jazz (english, french) also available on Google Play

If you're looking for an efficient method to learn how to play guitar, there's an Android app for that! www.androidpipe.com - July 2012

Designed for tablet and smartphones

Including
✔ 27 Lessons of increasing level - from beginner to intermediate guitarist -
✔ Video file for each lesson
✔ Autoscrolling Tabs - portrait or landscape -
✔ Detailed informations about theory and technics on each lesson
✔ Pitch notes to tune your guitar and much more ;-)

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Divided in three parts :

★ Part 1 (E-Folk 11 lessons for beginners)

Lesson 1: Take your Guitar
How to hold your guitar
Notes on the neck, tuning
Reading tablatures : Boogie in E

Lesson 2: Arpeggios
Right hand fingering
Simple arpeggios with bass note melody

Lesson 3: What is a chord ?
Play E minor and A minor chords
Fingering
Chord charts

Lesson 4: Play with a pick
The C major chord
Downstrokes and upstrokes picking

Lesson 5: The Folk rhythm
The G major chord
From C -> G, and addition of notes to chords
Hammer-on

Lesson 6: Three beats rhythm
The D major chord
Progression G -> D -> Am -> C

Lesson 7: Chords arpeggios
The D minor chord
Thumb plays the root note
of the chord

Lesson 8: Palm mute
The E major and A major chords
Back and forth playing
Mute sound with your palm

Lesson 9: Minor barred chords
Learning notes on the neck
The A and E minor barred positions
Swing rhythm

Lesson 10: Country Club
The E major barred position
Add a 7th note to your chords

Lesson 11: The C barred chord
The A major barred positions
Variation on the D chord
The C9 chord


★ Part 2 (E-Blues 8 lessons for beginners)

Begin with a traditional acoustic shuffle then play a funky blues with more advanced rhythm pattern.
Discover the SRV Texas Blues on a clean Stratocaster.
Enjoy a minor style Blues and smash your amp with more Rock lesson played on a Les Paul.


★ Part 3 (E-Jazz 8 lessons)

Lesson 1: Jazz Chords
Major scale's Jazz chords
Fingering and chords change for II V I in G and C progression
Walking bass

Lesson 2: II V I Progression
Use of the major scale
Chords embellishment
Diminished chord

Lesson 3: Tonality change
Learn to find II V I progression in multiple tonalities
Chords roots on the E and A strings

Lesson 4: More chords change
Diatonic substitution
Secondary dominant chord
Cycle of fifths
Tetrads and Triads

Lesson 5: Tritone substitution
Tritone substitution
11th and 13th chords
Fingering play

Lesson 6: Blues for Clara
From traditionnal 12 bar blues to a more complex structure
9th and 13th chords

Lesson 7: Gypsy Swing
Gypsy Jazz rhythm
Major and Minor 6th chords

Lesson 8: Sunny Bossa
Bossa Nova rhythm pattern
Using substitutions


Chords sequences have been extracted from some Jazz Standards but no melody is played because of copyrights.


Enjoy this app !

New features

Android 5 compatibility

App Permissions

Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to open network sockets.