Online Music Lessons from Music Texas Style

In this series of lessons, Ken Wheeler will guide students through the most basic aspects of guitar playing. From learning the notes of each string, to how to tune your guitar, it is all included in this package.

Ken Wheeler will begin this series by showing you primary chords and how easy to use they are. He will teach you open string chording and strumming rhythms and most importantly he will teach you to have fun!

This package teaches the student the most common open string chords in the keys of D, A, G, E, C and A Minor.

Ken Wheeler teaches how chords using Open Strings fit together in a key to give students the ability to play thousands of other songs.

Ken has lived an incredible life, met an amazing assortment of individuals, and has gained a wealth of knowledge over the years. In these lessons, he shares this with you, through the songs that he plays and the stories that he tells.

In this lesson pack, Ken Wheeler will share with you his knowledge of Blues music by teaching you 4 simple Blues song that you can play along to.

Playing along with 12 Bar Blues rhythms offers students major assistance with ear training and is one of the most fun things a beginner can do with his instruments and his quickly learned.

At the beginning of each lesson, Ken will discuss which chords are needed for the song, and which key the songs are played in.

Slightly more advanced than Lesson Pack number 1, Ken welcomes more advanced players, or those who simply need a few pointers here and there.

Having mastered basic chords, rhythms, fretwork and finger positioning from previous lessons, students will be taught additional chords and variations upon the rhythms already learned.

Through this segment of lessons, Ken Wheeler will also be teaching the individual guitar parts, both and lead and rhythm, on specific songs. Playing along with both parts of a song greatly improves the students timing and ability to play with others or a real band.

Students can now expect Tablature to be introduced and to learn how to play and read simple lead harmony 2 and 3 notes, played at the same time. Students should also expect more complicated chord changes in this lesson giving them all the tools to help them advance further on their path to becoming a true musician.

Students can expect to learn numerous additional chords and rhythm patterns as well as Instrumental, Lead and Rhythm guitar parts.

Ken Wheeler will also be giving an introduction to Slide Guitar in this package.

The song pace and skill level will begin to increase in this series of lessons, but you will be able to add 4 famous songs to the list of songs you can play and become more familiar with the entire guitar neck.

In this package, students will be playing all songs acoustically. You will be taught different guitar tunings and the chords which are specific to those tunings.

Ken Wheeler will be demonstrating how to finger pick with your right hand or your "Picking Hand" and teaches you common tunings such as a Drop D Tuning which is used in countless genres of songs.

Upon completion of this lesson pack you will be able to include 4 beautiful hymns to your collection of songs you are capable of playing.

In this series of lessons, Ken Wheeler will be teaching about hand placements, Introductions and Turnarounds.

He will be teaching you the fundamentals of what every guitar player will need in order to be successful and also enjoy playing at the same time.

Ken Wheeler will be teaching you how to play some classic blues songs in this series of lessons. He will teach you Twelve Bar Blues, introductions and bridges.

This lesson pack will also offer students the chance to learn the most common of all Blues rhythms in the Key of E.

Ken Wheeler will use his expertise and knowledge in this lesson package to teach you some classic Blues songs.

You will be utilizing the knowledge you have gained so far as well as using written materials to play some of the most famous songs in history.

Learning two of Ken's songs in this lesson package, you will be ever expanding your skill set and mastering new music.

By practicing tunings on your guitar, you are able to experiment with the chords you know. You could produce your own songs and might have enough knowledge and confidence to join a band.

In this pack of lessons, Ken will call upon chords learned in previous lessons to be used in melodies played throughout this package. He will test your memories and your skill by playing some simple Jazz tunes.

Expanding on Chords and Licks performed within blues songs in this lesson package, you should now have the capability and the confidence to experiment with these elements yourself.

Through this package, students will be learning some of the most useful lessons of all. Including Blues scales, Root notes, and how to jam with their own blues band.

Ken Wheeler will be showing how to get to grips, quite literally, with far reaching chords and difficult Fret Work.

You will be shown how to play 2 of the most famous instrumental songs of all time in this package and should refer to the tablature provided for extra assistance.