Fender Play Online Learning Platform Launches New R&B and Soul Course

Over the past 10 years our audience has heard or read me talking about how I don’t make music, I’m not a musician, I just love good music. Well I just got turned onto an exciting program put on by Fender called Fender Play and guess what…I’m going to learn to play guitar…this is me excited! Fender has been kind enough to let me to participate in their new R&B/Soul Music course and I’m getting an amazing guitar too boot. I’m going to trust our audience with my learning experience so stay tuned for upcoming video cuts…I promise I won’t mind if you laugh at my rough beginnings…!

Here’s some info about the course and if you’ve been suffering through the ups and downs of COVID and want to expand your mind…this could be something very fun and refreshing…below is some official info on the program:

Fender Play, is the complete online learning platform for guitar, bass & ukulele, and recently launched a brand-new path celebrating R&B/Soul music. This new path joins the popular Blues path, which has been on the Fender Play platform since its inception.

The revolutionary styles of R&B and soul derived from traditional blues, jazz & gospel music in the 1940s, and over the decades, expanded into contemporary, mainstream top 40 music & beyond. It showed the world the power of soul & feel and, of course, introduced us to iconic artists including Earth, Wind, and Fire, Alicia Keys, Amerie, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, H.E.R, Aretha Franklin & Curtis Mayfield.

This distinctive new Fender Play path launched with 18 new courses focusing on the building blocks of R&B rhythm, tones, and chords and introduces five new instructors, including Taylor Gamble & Izzy Fontaine. These new lessons feature songs from R&B/Soul legends and come with all the Fender Play trimmings – chord scroll, practice tracks, end-of-level reviews, and the new feature, feedback mode.

The brand has just introduced Feedback Mode, a Beta feature that goes beyond the guitar instruction the app already offers, and actually listens to your playing, provides an overall score, and detailed, note-by-note feedback to help new players adjust and improve their skills. With this new feature, plus a massive song library, plus video instruction on popular songs from songwriters themselves, it’s grown to be an amazingly comprehensive way to learn to play.

Get the full scoop at https://www.fender.com/play/

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Tags: Fender, Fender Play, Guitar, R&B, soul

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