Guitar Red Award

Welcome to the resources for Guitar Red Award.

We regularly update our pages with new resources, so watch this space! 

Beginner Resources

For beginners, we recommend Simplified Guitar (click here to view Simplified Guitar on YouTube).

Click here for an external website full of easy guitar songs for kids.

Click here for a link to a Google Drive with 5 starter videos to get you going on the guitar.

My Red Award Checklist

Click here for a checklist to track your progress through Red Award.

My Red Award Exercises

• Click here for Parts of the guitar;
• Click here for Two simple chords (and click here for audio backing track: moving from C to E);
• Click here for starting to read tablature;
• Click here for Simple pentatonic scale;
• Click here for Open string warm-ups and rhythm introduction;
• Click here for Time signatures (click here for 3/4 backing track and click here for 4/4 backing track);
• Click here for Dynamics exercise;
• Click here for Dynamics exercise Audio Track.

My Red Award Pieces

• click here for Green The Earth;
• click here for James Bond Bass Riff;
• click here for Ode To Joy;
• click here for Spanish Romance;
• click here for Spanish Thing;
• click here for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Challenge Yourself

These resources are aimed at those who are working towards their orange award, but confident red award players could also give them a go!

• click here for 12 Bar Blues (and click here for 12 Bar Blues audio track);
• click here for Three Chord Trick;
• click here for Relative Minor and Major Scales.