Part 1: Most Basic of
Basics
- The anatomy of the guitar
- The basics behind musical sound
- Styles of playing guitar
- Introducing “Chords” – open & closed
- Tuning your guitar
- Making simple chord sounds
- Learning to “Strum” to your first song
Part 2: Learning about Chords & a bit about music theory
- Learning a song using chords in G
- Using your right-hand fingers to “pick”
- Learning about Bar chords
- Pitch, Timbre, Frequency, Octaves
- Only 12 notes to learn & play with …
- Flats, sharps and scales
- Note names on the guitar fingerboard
- How a Major scale is made up
- Types of Scales & Modes simplified
- Making up more major scales
- Learning the chords in C D, A, E & F
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Part 3: Chord
Structures
& more advanced chords
- Chord Families Tonic, Sub-Dom, Dom,
Relative Minors, Dom 7ths…
- Open Chords versus Closed Chords
- Understanding Chord Inversions
- Three Major Inversions
- Three Minor Inversions
- Dominant 7ths & their Inversions
- Major 7ths & their Inversions
- Minor 7ths & their Inversions
- Basics of chord formations
Part 4: Yet More Complex Chords
- Augmented, Diminished, 7b9, Aug7
Part 5: Lead guitar made easy
- How you play closed scales
- The “Tonic-Sol-Fa” mind-set
- Finger-Picking time again
- Some Classical - if you want it.
- Now you’re a real guitarist!
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Part 6: Principles of Reading
Music
- What the Lines and the Dots mean?
- The Musical staff and the guitar
- Notes of differing lengths
- Time Signatures and Keys
- Chords shown as dots
- Playing from music
Part 7: Using & Understanding TAB
- What is TAB all about?
- Reading and Writing Basic TAB
- Understanding some of the terms
- More advanced TAB
- Finger Picking with TAB
Part 8: Understanding Chords
.. and putting them to work
- Remember chromatic & major scales?
- How more complex chords are made up
- Putting the chords together in a song
- More songs – more chord sequences
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