Guitar 1
Go From Unwrapping Your Guitar to playing any song you hear in just 12 weeks!
Whether you know a couple chords, or have never picked up a guitar, you're going to learn ALL the major and minor chord forms, foundational jazz chords, rock progressions, basic finger-picking, strumming patterns, advanced picking tunes and exercises, and guitar theory in your first few months. Ready, set, play!
Not Your Average Music Lessons. Get Immediate Access.
Weekly Lessons + Theory Sheets
Each week you will receive a new 20 minute lesson specifically designed to take you from beginner to making music completely on your own! Get extra practice by filling out your downloadable Student Handbook.
Student On-Boarding Q&A
Get help starting guitar with personalized instruction during our LIVE Student On-Boarding Call!
Video Vault
Before your next weekly lesson comes out, explore the guitar video vault, with additional exercises, theory practice, and genre-specific lessons, like learning hymns and worship songs.
(New lessons added every month!)
24/7 Access to Your Instructor
Message your instructor any time with questions you may have! Elisha wants to help support you in any way that he can.
LIVE Student Showcase
Share what you’ve learned each month at our LIVE student showcase! Cheer on other Musician’s Apprentices and simply be inspired by your fellow students and instructors OR show us what you’re currently loving to play!
Student Success Path
Earn badges and share your wins with our supportive community as you work toward completing your Student Success Path!
Meet Your Instructor!
Elisha began his music career at age 10 when he was somewhat forced to learn the violin to complete the family’s string quartet. A few years later, Elisha was introduced to traditional American fiddle music, and after
attending his first music camp in 2002, he was hooked.
Elisha went on to win numerous awards for his musicianship including the Washington State Fiddle Championship, West-Coast Guitar Flat Picking championship, Runner-up at the National Fiddle Championship, and the NW Regional Fiddle Competition. Along with his siblings, Elisha has made over 800 public performances around the US and Canada.
To date, Elisha has taught hundreds of in-person students on Guitar, Fiddle, and Mandolin, but his real passion is producing an incredible music experience for YOU, so that you can get a taste for the same life-long love of music he got touring the country, visiting camps, going to competitions, and growing up in a rich musical community—regardless of where you are at in the world AND regardless of your budget!
You can find Elisha soaking up the soul-filling evenings full of music with his own five small children and beautiful wife, or in the Voetberg Music Academy Community working with our incredible students.
FAQs
When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish. You will receive one lesson per week to encourage consistency but once the lesson is released you always have access to it.
How long do I have access to the course?
Voetberg Music Academy is a subscription based online academy. You will have access to this course on any and all devices you own and will be charged monthly as long as you are subscribed to the course.
What age-range is this course directed at?
We recommend this course for anyone 8 years old to 108 years old. Younger students will need more parental guidance.
Course Curriculum
Guitar One
How to Hold Your Guitar
Tuning Your Instrument, Using a Pick & Basic Fingering
In the Jungle
Hey, Hey, Good Lookin’
Happy Birthday
You Are My Sunshine
Secret Agent Man
It is Well With My Soul
L-O-V-E
My Girl
Here Comes the Sun
I’m an Old Cowhand
Here I am To Worship
Heart and Soul
Join for less than the cost of ONE Lesson for ONE Child (With FAR Better Results!)
(Less than the cost of ONE 30-minute lesson for ONE child)
Monthly Membership
$36/mo
Siblings can share monthly access to Voetberg Music Academy’s weekly lessons, LIVE Student Showcases, special events, the Video Vault (for students who learn even faster) and 24/7 instructor support.