Beginning Guitar
Getting to Know Your Instrument
- Guitar components, accessories, and effects
Note Layout
- Names of strings and notes
- Sharps and flats (B and E no sharps)
- Fretboard position markers
Tuning
- Standard tuning (A = 440 Hz)
Intro to Rhythm Guitar
- The Power Chord - 36 instant chords
- 6th string forms
- 5th string forms
- 4th string forms
- Right hand muting
- Left hand muting
- Simple power chord progressions
Intro to Lead Guitar
- Scales defined
- Pentatonic blues scale
- Finger excercises
Intermediate Guitar
More Rhythm Guitar
- The full barre chord - 72 instant chords (major, minor, seventh)
- 6th string forms
- 5th string forms
- 2-note chords applied to rhythm
- More chord progressions (including 2-note chords)
More Lead Guitar
- Hammer
- Pull
- Slide
- Trill
- Bend
- Vibrato
- Chimes / Natural Harmonics
- Pick Harmonics
- Muting individual notes
- 2-note chords applied to lead
- Licks
- Solos
- Finger Exercises
Guitar Tricks
- Bend flat
- Pick scrape - regular and alternating
- String yank
- Bend behind the nut
- Octaves
- Roll
- Violin sound
- Infinite sustain (controlled feedback)
- Tapped bend
- Two handed licks
- Open string lead
- Random harmonics
- Half step run
Learning Songs by Ear
- Tuning to recordings
- Nailing the key and rhythm
- Learning the lead
- Equipment that makes it easy
Advanced Guitar
Music Theory Applied to Rock Guitar
- Definition of a scale revisited (schemes)
- Intervals (half steps and whole steps)
- Scheme of the major scale
- Tones of the major scale (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.)
- Chord formulas - major, minor, seventh
- Pentatonic (minor) scale analyzed
- Complete pentatonic scale (all patterns)
- Major pentatonic scale
- The full scale (major)
- 7 Modes of the major scale
- Three note per string patterns
- Song writing (matching chords and scales)
More Rhythm Guitar
- The full barre chord - 72 instant chords (major, minor, seventh)
- 6th string forms
- 5th string forms
- 2-note chords applied to rhythm
- More chord progressions (including 2-note chords)
- Hammer
- Pull
- Slide
- Trill
- Bend
- Vibrato
- Chimes / Natural Harmonics
- Pick Harmonics
- Muting individual notes
- 2-note chords applied to lead
- Licks
- Solos
- Finger Exercises
- Bend flat
- Pick scrape - regular and alternating
- String yank
- Bend behind the nut
- Octaves
- Roll
- Violin sound
- Infinite sustain (controlled feedback)
- Tapped bend
- Two handed licks
- Open string lead
- Random harmonics
- Half step run
- Tuning to recordings
- Nailing the key and rhythm
- Learning the lead
- Equipment that makes it easy
Advanced Guitar
Music Theory Applied to Rock Guitar- Definition of a scale revisited (schemes)
- Intervals (half steps and whole steps)
- Scheme of the major scale
- Tones of the major scale (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.)
- Chord formulas - major, minor, seventh
- Pentatonic (minor) scale analyzed
- Complete pentatonic scale (all patterns)
- Major pentatonic scale
- The full scale (major)
- 7 Modes of the major scale
- Three note per string patterns
- Song writing (matching chords and scales)
