Hi There, just re-upped

Hi, Michael here.  I just re-upped after about a year away from GT.   I went through Anders Blues Level 1 and a lot Level 2  courses, where I sort of plateaued out.   But learned a ton of stuff and advanced from probably an advanced beginner to an intermediate during Ander's lessons.  

I think I need to learn and/or get more comfortable with music theory and learning my way around the neck more proficiently.   Need to learn where more of the notes are without having to figure it out, more chord progressions,  even the scales and keys.   

Any one have any suggestions on which areas in GT I should take a look at?   

Thanks. 

What kind of music (presumably blues?) are you most interested in?  What specific skills, ideas are topics do you most want to improve upon?  The more precise you can be about your specific goals, the more helpful we can be about pointing you in the right direction.

For example, if you want to know more about music theory in general, this collection of tutorials will help you with that.

https://www.guitartricks.com/collection/music-theory/

These tutorials will help you map the fretboard & understand how to see it as one repeating interconnected pattern of the musical alphabet.

Visualizing 1

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/419/

Visualizing 2

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/898/

Visualizing 3

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/899/

Visualizing 4

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/462/

If you want to understand chord theory & apply it all across the fretboard, these tutorial will help. 

https://www.guitartricks.com/collection/triads-and-inversions

If you want to improve your blues licks this collection will show you how to start simple & build your repertoire of licks.

https://www.guitartricks.com/collection/Bread-and-Butter-Butter-Blues-Licks

This collection of tutorials shows the basic principles of improvisation (find the key, target chord tones, build melodies) starting very simple, then getting more involved quickly.

https://www.guitartricks.com/collection/learning-to-improvise

And more!  So if some of that helps, then dive in!  If there is some other topic you are looking for, please ask.  Hope that helps!

Hi Chris,  

Thanks for responding.  I was just looking at some of your lessons.    I do want to get more proficient in the blues, but also like older rock and also acoustic.  I think I'll take a look at the visualizing tutorials you listed.  That seems to be where I'm lacking.  I know parts of the fretboard well,  mostly the key of A, and can move around fairly well,  but if the key is C or G, or E,  I have to go 'wait a sec,  where is that,  oh yea, should be here', things like that I want to improve. on.  

I'd say I'm probably an Intermediate, but have a long way to go and much to learn. 

Thanks

Michael