TrueFire has 20+ different course series available, each focused on various educational and curricular formats. Each course series features a variety of top educators and presents lessons across all skill levels and genres. To understand more about each series, check out the guide below!
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Practice Sessions
Learn & Practice Interactively with the Educator
You’ll focus on key creative approaches and techniques with Practice Sessions. What makes the format really special is how you’ll get the new material firmly under your fingers — you’ll practice each of the concepts together with the educator, in a series of interactive practice sessions.
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate
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Guitar Heroes
Key Influences of TrueFire Educators
Every musician has a long list of other musicians, past and present, that have inspired, influenced and helped shape their own sound and musicality. It’s the natural evolution of music. We asked TrueFire educators to pass on to you some of the key learnings that their Guitar Heroes passed on to them.
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate, Advanced
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On Location
Style-Focused Courses from Educators’ Studios
Shot on location at the educator’s home studios, the On Location series of courses focuses on a variety of creative approaches, essential techniques and applied theory. You’ll play your way through a series of performance studies to get a solid grip of the key learnings in a musical context.
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate, Advanced
Essentials
Rhythm & Soloing Performance Studies
Our Essentials series gets right down to business — you will play through 10 soloing or rhythm performance studies with video-sync tab and notation like all of our courses. Each performance study is followed by a detailed breakdown of the concepts and techniques being demonstrated in the studies.
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate, Advanced
Licks You MUST Know
Style-Specific Vocabulary Building Studies
Our Licks Your MUST Know series is a vocabulary class for guitarists. You’ll learn a variety of licks, phrases and rhythm moves in a particular style. The educator demonstrates over a track and then breaks it down note-for-note. You’ll get the video-sync tab and notation, plus all of the backing tracks.
Skill Levels: Late Beginner, Intermediate, Late Intermediate
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Trading Solos
Trade Solos and Comping with TrueFire Artists
One of the best ways to improve your playing is to jam live with other players, especially with a great rhythm section. The next best thing is working with our Trading Solos series. When you’re playing rhythm, the educator is soloing. When the educator is comping, you’re soloing. Killer tracks too!
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate, Advanced
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Focus On
Style and Technique Focused Studies
The Focus On series is just that — very focused on a specific technique or creative approach. Drill deep with the educator and put it to work over tracks for musical context. Like all of our courses, You’ll get video-sync tab and notation, plus all of the backing tracks to optimize the learning experience.
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate
Fakebooks
Rhythm & Soloing Studies Over Song Progressions
The Fakebooks series examines the most popular song progressions used in a particular genre. In the rhythm Fakebooks, You’ll learn voicings and comping approaches. In the lead editions, You’ll learn how to solo over those changes. Put your key learnings to work over hundreds of tunes.
Skill Levels: Late Beginner, Intermediate, Late Intermediate
Survival Guides
Style-Specific Essential Concepts & Techniques
Need to dive deep into a specific style? Dig into our Survival Guide series for a full range of techniques, moves, licks, soloing approaches, comping approaches and everything else you need to play at a pro level. Using backing tracks, performance studies put everything to work in a musical context.
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate, Advanced
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Guidebooks
Key Concepts & Performance Studies
Guidebooks present key learnings for targeted styles, techniques and/or creative approaches. You’ll play your way through a series of performance studies to get a solid grip of the key learnings in a musical context. Video-sync tab, notation, and backing tracks optimize the learning experience.
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate
1-2-3 Guitar
Accelerated Style-Specific Studies
Our 1-2-3 series are not for the faint of heart (or beginners). Each 1-2-3 course is an accelerated introduction into a specific style of play or technique. If you’re not a patient learner — start here! You’ll be presented with 3 key principles to learn and then put them immediately to work musically.
Skill Levels: Late Beginner, Intermediate, Late Intermediate
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Take 5
Progressive Style and Technique-Focused Studies
Take 5 examines a style, a technique or a specific creative soloing approach. What’s special about this curriculum? After a thorough primer filled with detail and demonstrations, you play your way through a progressive series of 5 performance studies, each one more advanced than the previous one.
Skill Levels: Late Beginner, Intermediate, Late Intermediate
Masterclasses
Key Concepts & Techniques of TrueFire Educators
Many of our most passionate educators are also top recording and performing artists. Their Masterclasses reveal their own personal key concepts, techniques and improvisational approaches that they use to craft their original music and signature voice on the instrument.
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate, Advanced
Play With Fire
Curated Series of Music Education Programming
Play With Fire is a curated series of music education programming that examines the techniques, perspectives and creative approaches of today’s most influential artists. The artist’s contributions to our musical heritage is conveyed across a series of interviews, performances and demonstrations.
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate, Advanced
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Live Plus
Enhanced Lessons from Live Broadcasts
The Live Plus series takes our most popular live broadcasts and TrueFire-izes them with video-sync tab and notation, plus all of the backing tracks to optimize the learning experience. The educators share variations and innovative approaches not found in their regular course productions.
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate
Chord Studies
Chord Vocabulary Building Studies
Chords, chords and more chords! Unlike typical chord dictionaries, Chord Studies pass on dozens of chords you can immediately integrate into your play. And we’ll bet you likely don’t already know them. Interested in breathing new life into your rhythm playing? Dig in immediately!
Skill Levels: Late Beginner, Intermediate, Late Intermediate
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Guitar Gym
Technique & Skill Focused Workouts
Speed picking, legato, hammer-ons, string-skipping, hybrid picking, sweep picking, triads, arpeggiation, pull-offs, tapping, alternate picking, and every other guitar technique you need a solid grip on — it’s all here at the Guitar Gym. Playalong workouts over tracks with the educator is the key to success!
Skill Levels: Late Beginner, Intermediate, Late Intermediate
Guitar Lab
Deep Dive Technique & Applied Theory Studies
We have over 100 Guitar Lab courses that dive deeper and wider into specific topics, techniques and approaches than anything you’ve ever experienced. Pick carefully here because we guarantee you that these learning experiences are intense and not designed for the casual practicing guitarist.
Skill Levels: Late Intermediate, Advanced
Greatest Hits
Top-Ranked Style-Specific Lesson Collections
Dig into any style-specific Greatest Hits collection for a range of top-ranked lessons, from a variety of top TrueFire educators, across a range of curricular topics. You’ll find rhythm lessons, soloing lessons, licks and more inside each Greatest Hits course including tab, notation and jam tracks.
Skill Levels: Late Beginner, Intermediate, Late Intermediate
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Explorer
Deep Dive Style-Specific Examinations
The Explorer series guide you through a deeper dive into style-specific skills, harmonic applications, creative and stylistic approaches, techniques and a wide range of embellishments that you can immediately employ to spark inspiration into your playing and improvisations.
Skill Levels: Intermediate, Late Intermediate