• 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

• 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!

• 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