This course is based on the Guitar Proficiency Exams taken by the end of each semester for all the Guitar Performance Major students at Berklee College of Music. The content is split into 8 different levels and focus on developing students’ technique and enhancing their skills to play all over the fretboard. To have access to the entire program, please click on the link on the bottom of this page:
This course is based on the Guitar Proficiency Exams taken by the end of each semester for all the Guitar Performance Major students at Berklee College of Music. The content is split into 8 different levels and focus on developing students’ technique and enhancing their skills to play all over the fretboard. To have access to the entire program, please click on the link on the bottom of this page:
This course is based on the Guitar Proficiency Exams taken by the end of each semester for all the Guitar Performance Major students at Berklee College of Music. The content is split into 8 different levels and focus on developing students’ technique and enhancing their skills to play all over the fretboard. To have access to the entire program, please click on the link on the bottom of this page:
This course is based on the Guitar Proficiency Exams taken by the end of each semester for all the Guitar Performance Major students at Berklee College of Music. The content is split into 8 different levels and focus on developing students’ technique and enhancing their skills to play all over the fretboard. To have access to the entire program, please click on the link on the bottom of this page:
BIO
Rodrigo Moreira is a guitarist, bassist, and music educator born in Florianopolis, SC, Brazil and has resided in the NYC area since 2019 where he works with students of all ages and teaches courses focused on harmony, improvisation, guitar and bass proficiency, and musical beginning for kids. He graduated with honors from the prestigious Berklee College of Music with a major in performance with guitar as his principal instrument.
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Throughout his education, he studied with the finest music educators from Sao Paulo/SP, Boston/MA, and New York/NY such as: Richie Hart, Mick Goodrick, Garry Dial, Ed Tomassi, Bruce Bartlett, Jerald Harscher, Nando Michelin, Sheryl Bailey, Daniel D’Alcantara, Vitor Alcantara, Lupa Santiago, Michel Leme, Daniel Maudonnet, among others.
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Here’s a list of many courses taught by Rodrigo on improvisation, composition, and arrangement:
- ​Closed triads
- Open triads
- 4-way close chords
- Shell chords
- Drop-2 chords
- Drop-3 chords
- Drop-2 & 4 chords
- Drop-2 & 3 chords
- Double Drop-2, Drop-3
- TBN I
- TBN II
- Quartal harmony
- Secundal harmony
- Berklee Proficiency (all types of chords, arpeggios, and scales in all 12 keys + Mick Goodrick’s cycles of triads and 7th-chords)
- Motivic development
- Tension shapes​
- Diatonic approach
- Chromatic approach
- Passing tones
- Bebop scales
- Superimpositions
- Hexatonics
- Triads-pairs
- Pentatonics
- “Outside” and “free” playing
- Intervallic
- Serial tone-rows
- 23rd-chords
- Coltrane changes
- Blues
- Rhythm ‘n changes
- Ear Training
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“A passionate guitarist with technique and soul for days.”
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- Amanda Monaco
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