Nicholas Veinoglou

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Neo-Soul and R&B Guitar

Quickly spice up your playing in this music-first Master Class

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WHo it's for

Intermediate guitarists

Looking to step up your skills fast? This class will fuel new melodic ideas and make your rhythm playing shine.

Time

3 weeks

Nicholas will guide you through 3 class sections of step-by-step instruction with interactive TAB and assignments.

Outcome

Level up fast

Fuel your playing with ready-to-jam neo-soul techniques and learn how to break out of pentatonic boxes.

Keep going

Take the next step

Once you've mastered this class, keep progressing with advanced Master Classes and guided practice plans.

What you'll learn

Nicholas specializes in dynamic rhythm techniques, intermediate improvisational concepts, and a tried-and-true approach to achieving fretboard freedom.

Unlock your fretboard with arpeggios
Make your chords shine with neo-soul techniques
Learn how Nicholas builds his viral guitar compositions

Curriculum

Stay focused with this step-by-step learning program designed by our expert team of music educators.

How it works

Your guided learning pathway

In this three-part Master Class, you'll learn how to quickly spice up your playing with neo soul-infused rhythm guitar concepts and an arpeggio-based approach to improvising.

Technique

We'll start the class with a series of musical exercises that will help you incorporate a timeless neo-soul and R&B sound in your playing.

How to Break out of the Box

Next, we'll focus on how you can use arpeggios to break out of pentatonic boxes that trap so many intermediate guitarists. This section will do wonders for your soloing.

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SongSquad

We'll wrap up the class with nine songs that Nicholas composed just for this class.

For each song, he'll break down his approach to creating it so you can use the concepts to fuel your own playing.

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Take it further

Ready for more? Nicholas recently dropped another class that'll take your playing even further! Check out his newest Master Class 10 Techniques in 10 Days.

3-week Plan

Part I. Technique

Kick off the class by hitting the gym with fretting- and picking-hand workouts.

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This section focuses on techniques that will help you incorporate a timeless neo-soul and R&B sound in your playing. We'll cover three important techniques: chord quakes, pinky warm-ups and waterfall harmonics. At the end of this section, Nicholas breaks down how to practice guitar effectively so that you stay motivated and make as many gains as possible.

Part II. How to Break out of the Box

Unlock your fretboard with arpeggios.

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Nicholas will demonstrate an easy arpeggio and show you how to get the most mileage out of it with chromatic approach tones. Then, you'll learn three-octave arpeggios and how to create a totally new sound by changing only one note of an arpeggio.

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This section includes an interlude about how to become better at soloing. Nicholas walks you through some of the tools used in storytelling and how they can be applied to scales, chords, and arpeggios to help tell a captivating musical story.

Part III. SongSquad

Put your new skills to work!

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In this section, you'll learn nine tunes composed by Nicholas for this class. They incorporate many of the concepts you've learned throughout this Master Class. Taking someone else’s concepts, licks or ideas and making them your own will give you a toolbox of techniques and concepts to draw from.

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Your Instructor

Nicholas Veinoglou

Learn from a professional guitarist with 10 international tours under his belt. In Nicholas' vast lesson library, you'll learn a jam-ready approach to expressive neo-soul, rock, jazz, and fingerstyle techniques.

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Frequently asked questions

Are you a guitar, bass or piano player who feels like you haven’t made progress in a few months… years… or even decades?
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You’re probably stuck in what’s called the ‘intermediate plateau’. This is very common and can be very frustrating.

What’s the cause? Well, it’s pretty easy to learn the basics on any instrument. Learn a few chords and you can play hundreds of other songs. Learn a couple of scales and you can play some lead.

But what then? Triads? Modes? Arpeggios? The phrygian scale?!

Without a clear plan and learning system you fall back to playing the same things over and over again. Or you bounce around free lessons online but nothing seems to stick. It’s a recipe for a lot of practice without much progress.

That’s where Pickup Music can help. We specialize in taking players stuck in a rut and turning them into advanced musicians.

We do this through Learning Pathways that take you on a step-by-step journey towards mastery. We give you a highly structured system that shows you exactly what to work on each week to make serious progress.

These Learning Pathways take the guesswork out of your practice routine. You are guided through a proven grade-by-grade system with daily lessons, play-along practice exercises and interactive workouts.

But it’s not all about theory. We apply everything you learn to real music. That’s why every grade of our Learning Pathways build up to performing a song with a live backing band. This simulates what it’s like to play a real gig, with real musicians. It’s the absolute best way to learn.

You can also get 1-on-1 video feedback on your playing from our expert coaches and can attend weekly live lessons. This personal feedback makes Pickup Music the closest thing to taking in-person lessons, but at a fraction of the cost.

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