WHAT'S UnCAGED ALL ABOUT??!

Guitar UnCAGED is for those of you wishing to ‘get good’ at the real life things that guitarists need and use every day, be it to work with a great band, become a session musician or teacher, record your own compositions or just find your own voice on the instrument.

Guitar UnCAGED is created like a series of terms in a virtual guitar college, you’ll learn all the skills you need in different classes to keep things exciting and fast moving.  But don’t forget, don’t rush the lessons, there is a lot of information in each lesson and a single lesson can easily take a few days to digest. The lessons are clearly explained in text and where appropriate there are a series of video lessons and real life photographs to explain everything you need.

Our philosophy is to make things as simple as possible.  The basis of our teaching comes from looking at the CAGED chords and using them as templates for everything else we do.  This keeps things familiar and speeds up your learning, deepens your understanding and once you get to grips with it it’s a massive and simple leap forward.

On top of that UnCAGED offers an ever expanding series of ‘Modules’ that allow you to focus on a certain area of your playing, be it sweep picking, funk rhythms or just basic transcriptions.  The modules are a short focused course concentrating on a particular aspect of playing.

Our Live Room offers the ability to download our backing tracks, each month we will have a little competition just for fun, you download the backing track and record your own solo over the top, send it back to us and we will judge a winner and put it on our home page for the following month.  If you want to send us back a little video clip then all the better!  We might also have the odd master class or presentation in our live room..

Guitar UnCAGED is the definitive tutorial course for any aspiring guitarist who may not be progressing as he or she had hoped, or simply doesn’t know where to go to get the hallowed information that will allow their progress.

Doesn’t matter if you are at school, hoping to get into music college, or a fully grown Rock Legend, Guitar UnCAGED has a great deal to offer players of every level.

Guitar UnCAGED is not about learning a series of other people’s songs, it is about YOU creating for yourself, armed with the theoretical and practical knowledge you need.

So, you fancy sweep picking your way through locrian progression arpeggios?  Or tapping and dive-bombing your way through some classic rock?  Guitar UnCAGED will show you how and arm you with the knowledge not only to emulate your heroes but also to develop your own voice and shout out loud!

 

Here's a word from our rather awkward looking boss!!:

 

FAQs:

But there are loads of online guitar lessons, why can't I just use those?

Sure, there are loads of other guitar lessons online you can use to help you. Here at UnCAGED we offer you a consistent path towards improvement, there is a specific theory heavy path that will guarantee to make you better. Use the other web sites to reinforce the things you have learnt here. Also we guarantee the quality of our teaching, all our instructors hold at least a higher diploma in modern musicianship and have been there done that, which can't always be said for some of the bedroom teachers on those video sites!! Also we offer personal service, there's loads about us on the web site and you can email any of here direct with questions.

 

You describe yourself as a guitar college, what does that mean?

Guitar UnCAGED isn't for beginners, we assume you can play a bit and are just looking to fast forward your playing. Physical colleges working in this way have existed for ages, we are just doing it online and without the several thousand pound price tag!

 

How often will you update new lessons?

The core of the course is based around the understanding gained in each of the terms,so the basis of the terms won't change radically although e will add new lessons and licks periodically and will keep the liev room updated with extra lessons!

 

Will I need any other materials?

No everything you need is right here! Just obviously your guitar, an amp and a desire to work hard and learn.

 

How is the course structured?

Simple! We have four tutors that teach you the practical aspects of playing music in the real world. Mark is dealing with your theory, Isa your notation, Gaz your techniques and Rich your applied theory. Each term build on the last. We make no apology for being theory heavy, if you want to get good, you gotta have your building blocks first.

 

Can you tell me more about the tutors?

Sure, click here for a little bit about each of us.

 

You don't seem to teach any songs?

No, we don't! If you want to learn songs, then buy a tab book or have a look elsewhere online. We aren't about learning songs, we are all about you finding your own voice on the instrument, and getting your theory and chops together enough that you can write great songs and solos etc.

 

What's the 'guitar off' competition all about?

The guitar off can be found in our live lounge, basically we will provide you a free backing track once a month written by us. We'll probably put a example solo down for you to hear somewhere on the site. You download the backing track, record your own solo over the top and send it back in. We'll judge them and put the winner online in the live lounge for the remainder of the month.

 

But I dont have any recording equipment?

No problem, quality isn't important, use a web cam or similar to record yourself playing along, that's fine! Format doesn't matter either, as long as we can play it, videos are more fun though!

 

Your site isn't finished yet?

Ha ha yes, you're correct, we are rolling it out one term at a time and there's only a few of us here, so bear with us it'll be out in it's entirety soon!!

 

Any other questions, feel free to give us an email and we'll get back to you asap!