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Ready, steady, rock: ABRSM Guitar Journeys

ABRSM's new guitar resource offers independent learners a pathway to rock and pop – but is this a route to successful strumming? Chris Walters finds out.

ABRSM, the leading international graded exam board, must be one of the most featured organisations in these pages – but not usually for a rock guitar product. Journeys, a new online resource that lets you play familiar pop hits on the electric guitar with a pre-recorded live band, marks a departure from the board's usual area of activity in three significant ways. Firstly, it is a standalone resource that does not link to an assessment. Secondly, it dives head-first into popular music, which ABRSM is not known for (its noteworthy jazz syllabus notwithstanding). And thirdly, it is designed for self-teaching learners, rather than learners who are working with teachers.

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