FIND YOUR JOURNEY
The JHG Roadmap
Overwhelmed? Not sure where to start? Want some structure in your guitar life? The JHG Roadmap will suggest a structured journey you should take through my courses, based on difficulty level. We will start at the easiest, and proceed to the most difficult. For each level of difficulty, there are multiple options of songs and courses to learn. You can choose any option, in any level, but I suggest you complete all courses in each level before proceeding to the next level.
Level 1 - The Health Screen
The Ultimate Beginners Guide (to Strat Style Guitar)
The basics. Start from the very beginning. This course is a general beginners course, but is also focused towards the Strat Style. Even if you are not a beginner, you should at least flick through this course and make sure you are up to speed with everything it contains.
Level 2 - Meal Prep
Crossing the Bridge
Get started on learning songs in this style by learning 6 simple songs (or simplified versions of not so simple songs). Each song covers a very specific element of this style that makes it important to learn.
Music Theory Essentials
Theory Basics. This will just make life that tiny bit easier
Level 3 - Makin' Gainz
Bold As Love
A Great ‘Primer’ song to prepare you for the advanced section of this style
Layla
Just a Good, Solid & Simple Acoustic Jam. Good use of chords in this song
Level 4 - The 'Pump'
Life Without You
This song, while fairly basic in its arrangement and layout, is an absolute beast for bending
The Wind Cries Mary
Learn up to the second Solo and come back to that solo later if you like. Leave the looping for now
Slow Dancing In a Burning Room
Sweet melodies, Roaring Solos, Basic Looping. The epitome of what I do.
Hey Joe
With the exception of some of the licks in the second solo, this should be achievable in this level. Also, it’s Hey Joe!
Level 5 - 'I am a Badass'
Sultans
Sultans, while somewhat in a similar style, deviates a little and uses primarily thumb and forefinger. It’s also long
Gravity
Tricky chord shapes and Harmonics make Gravity that little bit more difficult
Your Supplement Regime
Take anytime you like
None of these courses require a particular ‘skill’ level’ and are only dependent on your appetite to learn them . They can be taken and re-taken
at any time throughout your Guitar Journey
Don't forget Leg Day
Music Theory Mastery
This course can really be taken whenever you like, but I
highly suggest it later on in your journey. It’s theory, so
let’s face it, it’s not the most fun course (though I’ve
done my best to make it as enjoyable as possible), so it
makes more sense to take this when you are fully
invested into guitar and it won’t put you off
Level 6 - 'Beast Mode'
Gimme
This song is more of a level 4 song in terms of difficulty, but it’s here because of it’s open tuning.
Bluesy Wednesday
A short piece, so it is easy in that sense, but it requires a very advanced, delicate touch to sound right. Easy to play, hard to nail
Ain’t No Sunshine
Getting the ‘claw method’ perfect is the challenge here. Also a few fast licks, and ‘slap’ techniques which can be tricky
I Shot The Sheriff
On the surface, this doesn’t seem very tricky, but the groove and it’s sheer length puts this song here. Simple and fun looping however, so a good song to jam to
Final Level
Lenny
Don’t get me wrong, some of the other songs on the other levels have ‘flashes’ of more challenging parts, but I think as an overall piece, Lenny takes the crown
Neon
The Acoustic Crown goes to Neon. To date, undoubtedly the hardest song I teach. Again, not so hard to play, but incredibly difficult to master