Learn Beginners Guitar with SammyT

This is a promotional YouTube presentation by Sammy Taggett introducing "Rockstar Guitar," a beginner-focused online guitar course that promises to get students playing their favorite songs quickly (claim: "90% of your favorite songs") using short daily practice (15 minutes) and novel techniques like a Chord Cam and a Color Chord Activation Technique (CAT). The presenter outlines his background as a touring musician, describes the course modules (basic posture/tuning/strumming → chord progressions → dexterity and shadowing exercises), lists pricing options and bonuses (drum tracks, metronome, recording tips), and closes with a call-to-action to subscribe.
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Hey all, this is Sammy T. And I'm here to address a problem. Every day, thousands, if not millions of potential rockers walk by a dusty and out of tune guitar. That's right. Every day, that beautiful instrument that holds the promise of countless sing alongs, millions of love songs and immeasurable joy sits alone on a stand or in a corner unplayed. And what's worse is each day that passes lends you to not believing that you can do it it that you may never learn how to play your favorite songs on the guitar. I'm here to tell you all hope is not lost. I can't help you. There is still a way to finally learn how to take care of that beautiful instrument that has been sitting there untouched and unplayed. And it's easier now than ever before. Not only are we going to have the guitar tuned with you sitting properly, looking comfortable and looking good with a guitar, I'm going to get you playing some of your favorite songs. And in minutes, we've made this a course that starts you from scratch. We asked ourselves, what if? What if in minutes you can be the unassuming guy that picks up the guitar and has people singing the rousing rendition of the absolute best sing along songs ever, jump starting the party and making you the hero? What if you could be the guy that serenades his special someone with a sweet melody that doesn't just melt her heart but gets her to be so intrigued by you she goes to get another bottle of wine just so she can stay and list you play some more. What if you're the dad that has kids that refer to you as the dad that never does anything cool? Imagine their surprise when you sit down and blast out one of their favorite songs from the radio that they thought you'd never know how to play, instantly making you that my dad's kinda cool. What if you could be that little beacon of inspiration to that lonely soul or friend that just literally needs to hear a soothing sound because they've lost all hope and maybe that someone is you. How amazing would it be if in just 15 minutes of teaching you simple chords and how to change between them, and using some revolutionary teaching techniques that engage the subconscious part of your brain, you were playing your favorite songs all the way through. How amazing would it be that in just 15 minutes of easy instruction using these strategies, all the what ifs became. I can play that. See, in this course, I'm going to show you how to finally play literally 90% of your favorite songs and more importantly, teach you how to teach yourself how to play all your favorite songs. I'm even going to put hundreds of Billboard top played songs in easy to follow play along videos so you have a simple reference to some of your favorite sing along tunes. I was first handed a guitar at the age of 14 and I learned very quickly that my short attention span or partial ADHD was not going to make learning anything easy. Lucky for me, I was raised by a couple of parents who were not only teachers but they were great teachers and they taught me in a number of different ways that kept my short attention span engage. So much so that 20 years later I've not only had the chance to play for some of the biggest musical acts in the world like Empire of the Sun, Kid Cudi, Cascade, Foo Fighters, Britney Spears, just to name a few. Heck, I've even been put in two major motion pictures because of who I was able to play with. I've also been able to pick up a guitar and play in front of not just 10 people in a living room, but to literally rock out in venues that hold over 8,000 people. Like Red Rocks where they shot the legendary YouTube video Jimi Hendrix got to record, Purple Haze and Led Zeppelin played on one of their first US tours ever. I've also been asked to play alongside some of the best DJs in the world in nightclubs, not a very traditional place where you'd see a guitarist. It's been totally crazy. In a nutshell, I'm living out my dream as a bonafide touring musician. Some might even say I'm a rock star. However, despite the many countless sing alongs and the living room rock out sessions and the late late nights in empty studios, I found the key to helping you learn the guit in minutes. Not weeks and hours, but literally minutes. What it takes to learn the guitar is simple. Most people fail because they never commit. Most people don't have a super easy system set up for their ultimate success. Most people have no consistent education or someone to push them. Or they don't have access to mentors or a teacher that really understands their struggles. At Rockstar Guitar, we have just that for you. If you can commit to me for 15 minutes a day, I can totally change your ability to play the guitar and more importantly get you playing 90% of all your favorite songs from start to finish. I have an oversimplified system that will get you up and playing in minutes, but we specifically teach you how to play crowd favorites so you are playing music you recognize and relate to fast. We've scoured the web so you don't have to. And we put everything in one spot. So now you can follow in a paint by numbers fashion and learn the guitar. We do this by giving you small, achievable goals that help you see and hear your improvements fast. If you were like me and tried numerous teachers and didn't get results, maybe it wasn't you, maybe it was actually them. Did you ever think about that? Listen, I can relate. I went through numerous teachers and it took me years to realize that there are different ways to learn. We actually focus on four here in Rockstar Guitar. And all you need to do is relate to a couple of those methods and you'll get past those hurdles no matter who your teacher is. I have students everywhere because the guitar is such a simple instrument to take with you. Literally. Thousands of people have watched me play and they all say the same thing. You make that look so easy. And the secret that I don't always share with them is it is pretty easy. I just needed to know some of the basics. And that's what we have shown thousands of people over the course of the last 10 years. And they've all walked away playing the guitar. And they all agree that is a lot easier than they thought. Guys, it's time to stop saying I can't do that and finally commit to succeeding at finally learning this instrument and how to play your favorite songs fast. Listen, I've watched hundreds of people that had no musical ability pick up a guitar, do a quick exercise with me. See the simplicity of how it is to change between chords and to strum their first recognizable melody. And it's amazing. Nothing warms me up more than watching them finally just play. You can do this. I've had 7 and 8 year olds play their favorite music and so can you. Remember, guys, we've designed this system at Rockstar Guitar to get you going from scratch. We're taking the guesswork out of what you need to do and how to play songs, not just the guitar. We've made it a paint by number system for you. You will learn how to sit, how to hold, how to strum, to position your fingers. And that's just the first easy module. We give you the simple secret ninja tricks of guitar playing that show you how to make your fingers do what you tell them to do instantly. It's amazing that no one has thought about putting all of these things in one spot. And given the crucial easy button on how to learn at Rockstar Guitar, we do just that for you. And you are going to Benefit from it instantly. Look, I know you can do this because I built the system. I modeled the system off a couple things. First, I looked at how I learned the guitar and what worked and what didn't. Personally, for me, I was add and unfocused and a bit wild. But I loved music and I loved the guitar. What kept me enthralled with playing and why I did stay and learn when almost every outside force said that this is going to be really hard for you. What made it easy for me was that I had role models playing music that I loved. Pearl Jammin, Blind Melon, ccr, Lenny Kravitz, Bare Naked Ladies, the Indigo Girls, Foo Fighters, and classic rockers like the Animals, the Beatles, Elvis Presley. What kept me playing was the simple fact that I was learning all of their music and singing and strumming along with them. As I learned to teach later, it dawned on me. When we start playing the guitar or any instrument, what do we want most to play our favorite songs. In my comprehensive system, I take you through the process of playing your favorite songs first. Then we dissect what you're doing and why it works. We start with a couple of the basics. Basic posture, guitar placement, tuning, and strumming, just to start. Then we go into something totally revolutionary. We address the mind motor skill connection. It's one thing to see someone play the guitar and another to try and put your hands where theirs are without training your mind. We help you train your mind so that your hands and your fingers go where you tell them to quickly. To do this, we use one of the first ninja tools and we call it the cord cam. It's a revolutionary way to view how your fingers look on the neck of the guitar as if you were sitting in my shoes, not watching from afar. Then we jump right into it. We literally give you the chords to play 90% of all your favorite music and make it so easy to read and follow that you may almost feel like you're cheating. So how do we do this? By using a brand new anchoring technique. We utilize our second revolutionary tool, colors, to really engage that incredible, powerful unconscious part of your brain. We take the basics and we make it even easier for you to play your favorite songs. So easy that you are literally moving two fingers at times. And that's it. People don't tell you this. So after you have some of these basics under your belt, we do something a little unique. We send you more songs that build on what you have already learned. For example, Three Little Birds by Bob Marley has three Chords A, D and E. A popular song, Pumped Up Kicks, has three different chords, plus one. A, G, D and E minor. What's that? Just one more chord in a little different order. The thing about that is, almost every song you hear or can play has a combination of maybe three to four chords. So by using the Color Chord Activation Technique or cat, we actually see the patterns of the songs at a glance. So your mind can anticipate what's coming up next. Kind of like cheating. It's just a comprehensive program that will show you the nuts and bolts and get you playing your favorite songs fast. So one of my favorite stories is of one of my students, Jason. Jason came to me not even knowing what to do with the guitar. He could barely hold the thing, and it was something that he had wanted to do for as long as he could remember. He told me before we even started working together that he would love to write a song of his own and wanted to learn how to play so he could write a song for his grandmother. So in the process of learning how to play some of his favorite songs by Everlast, the Foo Fighters, and countless others, Jason came to me one afternoon and declared, hey, I wrote my first song. This song was so good, it made me tear up because it was so from his heart and he was so able to express how he really felt through music. It was very touching. As a teacher and as a student, I don't know if I can think of a more rewarding thing as an instructor than listening to your students play a song they've written from their heart. I knew without a shadow of a doubt we were onto something with this new teaching strategy. If someone can learn the guitar and get their music out of them because of something I was able to translate and make simple to learn, I was doing my job. And that's exactly what we can do for you. At Rockstar Guitar, writing a song was something that Jason had wanted to do his whole life. Now he could sit and write a song just by using the techniques that we're going to show you here in Rockstar Guitar. If you've ever worried about dying with your music still inside you, this is a sure fire way to get that out through the vehicle of one of my favorite instruments. Who knows what that could actually lead into? Maybe you'll be like me and play in front of thousands of people and go on tour. Or maybe you'll be like Jason and write a song for your grandmother. As I mentioned before about how moved I was when Jason shared his song with me, Using the skills he had acquired during my teaching, I realized that there was something even bigger at play for me here. I know that music transcends all languages and barriers and unites people and shows us another insight and texture of life. And I know you may be thinking that this is just a silly guitar course on learning your favorite songs fast, but I can tell you that I've poured my heart and soul into this product because I've witnessed first hand what can happen when you unite people under the banner of music. Things just happen. I have one of the fondest memories of my life where I was able to unite and motivate a group of students working in inner city Detroit for the summer. How did we do this? We sang a song together and I remember thinking at the time that this memory is never going to fade. And I felt so thankful for all the headaches and the frustrations that I had had while learning the guitar and how at that one moment as we all sang one song together, it made it all worth it. See, my mission to you guys is to help you create those memories for yourself wherever and whenever they hit you. I feel it's my calling to share this skill with you all and give you the opportunity and the support to experience the joy of creating a song or playing one that you love and to do this all through the simple skill of learning the guitar. Now, if you feel me on that, we're listening to the same song. So Rockstar Guitar is a yearly membership that is constantly updated and filled with songs to learn and ways to play them and some fun easy games and a color coded action technique to make the process fun and easy. We've recorded our first set of videos and music right here in our professional studios based in Denver, home of One Republic, Big Head, Todd and the Monsters, the Flobots, Ryan Tedder, the Fray, Erykah Badu and John Denver, just to name a few. And get this, we even record some of our tracks in the very same studios as your favorite musicians. Epicenter Studios right here in Colorado. So you know everything coming out for you in Rockstar Guitar is top notch. We break everything down into simple steps and how it works is this. We show you the basic chords, how to tune, what equipment you're going to need, what you're going to need to set up your own lesson plan so you can measure your improvements, load you up with tons of songs that you can pick from to learn that we record in the easiest broken down lessons where you can see my hands, hear the strings, watch the transitions from My point of view, or even better yet, from our chord cam, which is as if you're looking from my vantage point. We continue to build on top of your basic successes by continuing with the simple techniques on changing between chords. We're going to break it down again. This time introduce our color chord activation technique or cat, where we take the basic colors of the rainbow or the color spectrum and the seven major chords of the guitar. By using colors, we actually engage that dormant part of your brain and really help you bend that learning curve. Now, instead of just seeing chords and strings, we give you a flashcard strategy to help you know which chord is coming up in a song and you can see them at a glance. This strategy was so key to me learning all my favorite songs and performing them in front of people. This program will help you to do this step by step as we hold your hand. So you have everything you need to know to get you playing 90% of all your favorite songs fast. Look, I've been teaching this system for years. If my 9 year olds can do it and my 40 plus can do it, then guess what? So can you. So a quick module breakdown. We break everything into simple steps and how it works is this module one through three. We show you the basic chords, how to tune, what equipment you need, what you're going to need to set up your own lesson plan so you can measure your improvements. And then we load you up with a ton of songs that you can pick from, that we record in those broken down lessons. Where you can see my hands and hear the strings and watch the transitions between the chords as if you were sitting right next to me. You will learn how to literally put your hands on the guitar and play some chords and play them over and over, specifically a D and E. So you can learn a couple songs right out of the gates. And the craziest thing about this is that it takes very little time and gives you instant satisfaction because you're playing some music and you've got over the first hurdle. Now, as you play, you'll notice a couple things. Your guitar may sound out of tune or you may need to change a couple parts of your technique, like sitting differently or holding the guitar differently. That's why we're here consistently with you. We help you dial in all those techniques that need to be improved on in those first three modules in module four through six, we continue to build on top of your basic chords. We go over a couple more advanced techniques on changing between the chords, like how to use the shadowing method so you can attach your mind to your fingers and we even give you some simple exercises to do this. Then we added just a couple more chords. G, C, F, B Thus building on top of your already existing knowledge. It just gets easier from here as far as what we teach you as we continue to put some more easy to learn songs in the funnel for you so you can take advantage of all the tips we've been giving you. And now we string them together. Your hands and fingers will now be more comfortable pushing the strings down and really getting into the groove of repetition by this module. So the neat thing here is we start to add some exercises on stretching your dexterity where traditional guitar instruction used to start. Here with exercises. This is where we end for the first portion of the teaching because frankly, it's not as exciting as playing your favorite music. This is the part where a lot of students really understand what they are doing and find that it really isn't as hard just to dedicate 15 minutes a day to learning something new. The crazy thing is we're only teaching you 12 chords in total. Guess how many you use throughout the course of a song in general? Usually three, four at most. So again, we teach you three chords to start how they work together. Simple exercises so you can make your hands go where you want them to go. Then we repeat the next set of chords and songs and it's that simple. You can do this from home or wherever you have a laptop, a phone, an iPad tablet, basically anywhere. It's that easy. So we've designed this course for the beginner to really get the fundamentals down with the guitar. I'm not here to teach the virtuosos or the Stevie Ray Vaughn's of the world. Those guys may be in the next video session though, who knows? This course is designed for that person who needs to pick up their guitar and learn simple and fun popular songs fast. This course has all the tools you'll need to get up on playing the basics on the guitar and give you a great frame of reference to start playing all your favorite songs fast. This is a comprehensive site that will really get you there. The amazing thing about online communities is that we have the ability to simply add more content as needed. So you won't only just have the basics on how to play, but we'll give you hundreds of songs in our catalog to pick from. You'll never have a shortage of things to work on and you'll always have a community of people to bounce off of learning and going through the same things that you're going through. So just to remind you of everything that we're going to give you, we've got the modules put together from soup to nuts on how to sit, hold, strum and tune. We go into the chords, switching between them and forming songs. And lastly we add the exercises in the color cord activation technique and the chord cam to help you work on dexterity, muscle memory and speed. We utilize colors throughout the course with that cat technique or the color activation technique. And at the end we bring it all together with our super fun flashcard like way to really help you hone in on the new skills and play songs fast. Hundreds of videos and especially designed graphs and easy systems were put together for you under one umbrella so you don't have to scour the web on technique after technique. We have them all here in one spot for you. This course is literally the product of thousands of hours of dedicated guitar playing and frustrating learning curves that I had to go through. The crazy thing is we're just getting started and haven't fully even touched the surface on how much more we're going to put in this course for you. Heck, I've had people pay thousands of dollars for a month's worth of lessons from me. Now I'm putting all that knowledge in one place so you don't have to. I'm so fortunate now that I can make thousand to $5,000 for playing a show and I'm going to teach you the same techniques I use to memorize songs and to perform them professionally when I'm out. My personal one on one lessons now run somewhere between 100 to 200 an hour, so you can imagine what it would cost to put all these lessons together in one spot using the same techniques. In my lessons. I've watched my students like Jason and Brandon and Caleb and Ashley figure out songs and learn a skill set that will stay with them forever. And I decided I'm not going to charge you anywhere close to that. What we've given you is a few different options. You can sign up for the monthly lessons for $27.97 or you have the option of just paying quarterly at $97. And we even have a last option which is just one yearly subscription for $2.97, the price of two private lessons with me. So I also understand how much you can accelerate your learning if you have a simple way to measure and watch your growth. So I'm also going to include some really easy bonus charts so you can monitor that growth. I'm going to include 10 drum tracks that will help you practice rhythm and push you to learn how to play in time and in sync with the beat. I'll give you some easy metronome beats so you can practice playing with rhythm when you start. And then I'll include beats all the way up to rock rhythm speeds so you can jam along with professionals. It's so fun. Not only am I going to do that, I'm going to include, free at no charge, some simple lessons on how to record your own music video using something as simple as your phone. Last but not least, I'm going to throw in some of my favorite jam along chord progressions so you can play along with me. And I'll break down some of my original music so you can learn it in halftime and play along with me on some of my original music. Wasn't that long ago when some of my first students were right where you are now, looking at the guitar, wanting to play, and just not knowing where to start. A couple of my students even told me they had tried and just couldn't relate to other guitar courses because the learning scales just wasn't for them. They just wanted to learn songs. So just by taking that simple commitment to 15 minutes a day, we showed them how to start off playing their favorite songs fast. This is the best time and the best opportunity. And I'm putting a stellar price tag on this because I want you to enjoy the benefits of learning the guitar just like I did. And I know without a shadow of a doubt your life will have a much needed kick to it after you learn how to play this amazing instrument. So click on the button below to register now. But by the time you guys have gone through this presentation on Rockstar Guitar, I will have a handful of slots already filled up. And one thing we really pride ourselves on here at Rockstar Guitar is giving you the absolute best value. We get hundreds and hundreds of requests on what music to put on our site, what lessons to teach next, and if you're not one of the first people to register, we may not be able to get to your songs right away. So click the button below register today and we'll see you on the other side.
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