Ed Sheeran’s guitar playing is so much more than your standard singer songwriter strumming a few chords to accompany themself. Ed’s a real virtuoso in his specific style of groove based acoustic music, and we have a lot to learn from him. In fact, Thomas has broken his style down into four core techniques and ideas that we need to master. The slap technique, the chug technique, the flowing fingerstyle technique & the art of embellishing simple chord shapes. In this course, we cover all of these skills and ensure that you understand how to use them in your own playing.
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Ed Sheeran
Player Studies
Difficulty
Intermediate
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This course includes the following 4 units
Unit 1
Audible Pontification
This unit is all about introducing you to that “slow slap chord pluck” as Thomas so beautifully puts it!
Unit 2
Chordal Flickys
We’re going to be taking a deeper dive into the improvisational nature of Ed Sheeran’s playing, focusing in on those flicks and twists that he plays around with on open chord and barre chord shapes.
Unit 3
Lanzarote Water
We are now ready to move on from the “pluck and slap” that we’ve been studying so far, to Ed’s more intricate fingerstyle playing.
Unit 4
The B Squad
We’re now going to take a deep dive into the final style of rhythm and groove that Ed is famous for.
Introduction
“
I was first taken by how Ed managed to take such simple chord progressions, and make them sound so interesting. The grooves, the flicks and the impressive fingerstyle. It’s so much more than your standard singer songwriter strumming.
Thomas McConville
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Upgrade your acoustic skills
Thomas’s goal in this course is to take your basic acoustic playing and massively upgrade it by adding Ed’s unique strumming styles and embellishments. Using three core songs as a base for our learning, Thomas will take you through all three rhythm techniques, as well as how to easily add extra colour to your playing with embellishments. In fact, to really drive home the idea of upgrading chords with embellishments, we’ve written an entire unit focused around the theory and practice behind this technique. By the end of the course, you will be able to play three Ed Sheeran style songs, add new life to your standard chords with embellishments, and most importantly, have a deep understanding of how to use a variety of grooves to take your acoustic playing to a whole new level!
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Featuring:
20 HD videos
Full lesson notes
Backing tracks
Supporting diagrams
Interactive guitar tab
This course includes the following 4 units
Unit 1
Audible Pontification
This unit is all about introducing you to that “slow slap chord pluck” as Thomas so beautifully puts it!
Unit 2
Chordal Flickys
We’re going to be taking a deeper dive into the improvisational nature of Ed Sheeran’s playing, focusing in on those flicks and twists that he plays around with on open chord and barre chord shapes.
Unit 3
Lanzarote Water
We are now ready to move on from the “pluck and slap” that we’ve been studying so far, to Ed’s more intricate fingerstyle playing.
Unit 4
The B Squad
We’re now going to take a deep dive into the final style of rhythm and groove that Ed is famous for.