The document outlines a guitar syllabus for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. At the beginner level, it covers choosing a guitar, basic techniques like posture, picking, fretting notes, reading tablature, tuning, and essential chords. The intermediate level goes deeper into techniques, music theory, scales, chords including barre chords, and the CAGED system. It also covers pursuing tone and practice coaching. The advanced level continues working on techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, bending, and fingerpicking polyphonically.
The document outlines a guitar syllabus for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. At the beginner level, it covers choosing a guitar, basic techniques like posture, picking, fretting notes, reading tablature, tuning, and essential chords. The intermediate level goes deeper into techniques, music theory, scales, chords including barre chords, and the CAGED system. It also covers pursuing tone and practice coaching. The advanced level continues working on techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, bending, and fingerpicking polyphonically.
The document outlines a guitar syllabus for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. At the beginner level, it covers choosing a guitar, basic techniques like posture, picking, fretting notes, reading tablature, tuning, and essential chords. The intermediate level goes deeper into techniques, music theory, scales, chords including barre chords, and the CAGED system. It also covers pursuing tone and practice coaching. The advanced level continues working on techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, bending, and fingerpicking polyphonically.
The document outlines a guitar syllabus for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. At the beginner level, it covers choosing a guitar, basic techniques like posture, picking, fretting notes, reading tablature, tuning, and essential chords. The intermediate level goes deeper into techniques, music theory, scales, chords including barre chords, and the CAGED system. It also covers pursuing tone and practice coaching. The advanced level continues working on techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, bending, and fingerpicking polyphonically.
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Guitar Syllabus
Beginner
Beginner - The CORE - Module 1
● Choosing an Acoustic Guitar ● Choosing an Electric Guitar ● Anatomy of the Acoustic Guitar ● Anatomy of the Electric Guitar ● Definitions We'll Need to Know ● Proper Posture and How to Hold the Pick
Beginner - The CORE - Module 2
● Introduction To The Physics of Sound ● Basic Picking Technique - The Pick Rest ● Basic Fretting Technique ● Naming the Notes on the Fretboard ● How To Read Tablature
Beginner - The CORE - Module 3
● Dexterity Exercise 1 ● Stacatto Vs Legato Technique ● How To Read Chord Stamps ● Tuning With A Tuner ● Basic Chord Technique
Beginner - The CORE - Module 4
● Curled Knuckle Technique - To Help With Chord Playing ● Advice and Encouragement ● 9 Essential Chords ● Changing Chords - Transition ● Basic Rhythm Lesson ● Basic Strum Technique and Exercises
Beginner - The CORE - Module 5
● Picks and How the Gauge Effect Your Playing ● If You Are Still Having an Issue With Strumming ● Why Do You Want To Play Guitar ● Practice Schedule - How To Practice ● Guitar Care 101 ● Quicken Your Chord Transitions Using the Inventory Trick ● "Big Strumming" To Sharpen Your Strumming Skills Beginner - Solid Foundation - Module 1 ● Workout For Your Hand Without a Guitar ● Talent vs. Practice ● Using The Thumb For Muting and Playing ● Inversions and "slash chords" ● Inversions You Will Use A Lot ● Construction of the Major Scale on a Single String
Beginner - Solid Foundation - Module 2
● Introduction To Intervals ● Understanding Shuffle Rhythms ● How To Tune The Guitar To Itself ● Basic Music Reading For The Guitar - Musical Notation ● How To Read Chord Charts ● How To Learn & Practice a Song Step-By-Step - Amazing ● Grace ● How and When To Use A Capo (All about capos) ● Overview of Various Capos
Beginner - Solid Foundation - Module 3
● Basic Electric Guitar Settings Part 1 ● Basic Electric Guitar Settings Part 2 ● The Looping and Chunking Techniques - Ninja Methods For ● Getting Massive Results In Your Playing ● The Juggling Unicyclist on a Tightrope - How To Get Good at ● Many Things at Once ● Slow It Down! Break It Down! ● Guitar Pro Downloading, Looping, Playing and Slowing-Down ● How to Download Tux Guitar for Playing .gpx Files
● Play Your Chords On Time When Moving From One Chord To The Next ● Dexterity Exercise 2 - Ninja Fretting Hand Skills ● Chord Noodling ● Octave Technique ● Fretting Hand Muting ● Introduction to Playing By Ear ● Introduction To Fingerpicking Intermediate - Technique - Module 2 ● Pick or Strum Hand Muting For Spicing Up Your Playing ● Adding a "Snare" To Your Strumming ● Fingerpicking Harpsichord Technique ● Introduction To The Metronome - Improving Your Timing ● The One Crucial Method That Unlocks the Mysteries of ALL ● Fingerpicking ● Fingerpicking Harpsichord Technique (Basic Method ● Revisited by Request)
Intermediate - Technique - Module 3
● Inside Vs. Outside Fingerpicking ● Alternate Picking ● Tuning By Harmonics ● How to Key a Song to Your Vocal Range ● How To Create A Reggae or Ska Rhythm Sound ● Hum and Hunt Ear-training Exercise ● How To Play the Guitar Without Looking at the Guitar Neck ● How To Determine The Strumming Pattern Of A Song ● Strumming 16th Notes - Dirtying Up Your Strum ● Playing Open Chords on the Electric Guitar - Less is More! ● 12 Bar Blues - Folsom Prison Blues - Alternating Bass Notes ● The Violin or Volume Swell Technique ● Using the Rake Technique ● Using Accents To Play In Time
Intermediate - Theory - Module 1
● How To Keep Everything In The Feel Of G Or C ● Stationary Springboards - Fretboard Knowledge ● Movable Springboards - Fretboard Knowledge ● "Magic Z" Pattern - Fretboard Mapping Logic and Theory Nashville Number System ● Introduction To Relative Major - Minor ● Finding The Chords To Any Key Instantly Without Music Theory - 6th String ● Finding The Chords To Any Key Instantly Without Music Theory - 5th String ● Transposing Up AND Down With a Capo - SUPER Powerful Tool for Changing Keys ● (Nashville) Number System - Further Discussions Part 1 ● (Nashville) Number System - Further Discussions Part 2 ● String Patterns That Occur on the Guitar and What's Up With That Tuning
Intermediate - Chords - Module 1
● Introduction To Chord Construction ● Construction of Triads: Major Chord ● Construction of Triads: Minor Chord ● Construction of Triads: Diminished Chord ● Construction of Triads: Augmented Chord ● Construction of Suspended 4th Chord
Intermediate - Chords - Module 2
● Bar Chords: Understanding The Forms ● Bar Chords: Playing The Forms (fingering technique) ● Introduction to Power Chords ● The One Trick That Will Double Your Chord Vocabulary
Intermediate - Chords - Module 3
● Intro To The CAGED System ● Practical Applications For The CAGED System ● Caged System - Advanced Exercises and Applications ● Using the CAGED System Across the Neck to Find Dominant 7th Chords ● Using the CAGED System Across the Neck to Find Minor Chords ● Using the CAGED System Across the Neck to Find Major ● Using the CAGED System Across the Neck to Find Minor 7th Chords ● Ear Training (Sister Chords) Part 1 ● Ear Training (Sister Chords) Part 2 - Every Major Chord Has a Relative Minor ● How To Apply The CAGED System To Dominant 7th Chords ● How To Apply The CAGED System To Minor 7th Chords ● How To Apply The CAGED System To Major 7th Chords ● How To Apply The CAGED System To Minor Chords
Intermediate - Scales - Module 1
● How to Use Scales Over Chords ● One-Octave 6 String Root Major Scale ● One-Octave 5th String Root Major Scale ● Two-Octave 6th String Root Major Scale ● Two-Octave 5th String Root Major Scale
Intermediate - Scales - Module 2
● Introduction To The Pentatonic Scale ● Introduction To The Major Pentatonic Scale ● Introduction To The Minor Pentatonic Scale ● The Chromatic Run (Scale)
Intermediate - Pursuit of the Ultimate Tone - Module 1
● Introduction to Pursuit of the Ultimate Tone ● Solid State Amplifiers ● Tube Amplifiers - Do Tubes Truly Affect Your Tone? ● Tube vs. Solid State Listen Test ● Amp Modeling Tone ● Telecaster Style Guitar ● Stratocaster Style Guitar ● Les Paul Style Guitar ● Advanced Pick Choice ● String Choice and How They Affect Tone ● Cabling Choice and How It Affects Your Tone ● Pedal Boards ● Effects Order and Detail and How That Can Affect Your Tone ● Assembling a Pedal Board ● Tone Woods - Does The Wood of Your Electric Guitar Actually Affect Tone? ● C Major Chord Noodling ● A Minor Chord Noodling ● G Major Chord Noodling ● D Major Chord Noodling ● E Minor Chord Noodling ● Transitioning Between Open Chords and Bar Chords ● Using the F Major Chord Forms To Help You Master Bar Chords
● How to Practice - Series Introduction ● Questions to Ask When Coming Up With a Practice Schedule ● Introduction to How to Practice ● Warming-Up ● Scalular Practice ● Chords Practice ● Picking-Fingerpicking Practice ● Theory Practice ● Repertoire ● Conclusion - How Should I Practice?
● Introduction To Volume Swells ● Introduction To Natural Harmonics ● Introduction To Pseudo Harmonics ● Using Your Thumb To Play The Bass Notes Of Chords ● Introduction To Sliding ● Introduction To String Bending ● Hybrid Picking Lick #1 ● Adding "Glissando" Picking To Spice Up Your Playing
Section 26: Advanced - Technique - Module 3
● Introduction To Palm Muting ● Introduction to Tremolo Picking ● Introduction to Vibrato ● Introduction To The Trill ● Introduction to Drop D Tuning - Alternative Tuning
Section 27: Advanced - Technique - Module 4
● Basic Amplifier Settings ● String Skipping Exercise For Extreme Pick Control ● Double Stops ● Super Advanced Metronome Techniques For Building Ninja Timing Skills On The Guitar ● Woodshedding Versus Dress Rehearsal - Different Ways To Practice
Section 28: Advanced - Technique - Module 5
● How To Do A Pick Scrape ● Wiggle Pick Trick ● Pinch Pick, False Harmonics, Squealies - How To Create a "Screaming" Guitar ● How To Harmonize A Melody Line
● Introduction - How to Find the Key or Tonal Center to a Song ● Three Powerful Ways to Find the Key Tonal Center of a Song ● Song Example 1 - He Stopped Loving Her Today ● Song Example 2 - Folsom Prison Blues ● Song Example 3 - Mr. Brightside ● How the Feel of C and G Major Will Revolutionize the Way You View the Guitar ● The Naturally Occurring Diatonic Chords and How We Get These ● G Major Chordal Scale ● C Major Chordal Scale ● Song Example 4 - House of the Rising Sun ● Song Example 5 - Don't Fear the Reaper ● Conclusion - How to Find the Key or Tonal Center to a Song Section 36: Advanced - Chords - Module 1 ● Know The One Note That Makes A Chord Major Or Minor ● 7th Chord Introduction ● Creating The Dominant 7th Chord ● Creating The Major 7th Chord ● Creating The Minor 7th Chord ● Creating the Minor Major 7th Chord
Section 37: Advanced - Scales - Module 1
● Form 1 Minor Pentatonic Scale ● Form 2 Minor Pentatonic Scale ● Form 3 Minor Pentatonic Scale ● Form 4 Minor Pentatonic Scale ● Form 5 Minor Pentatonic Scale
Section 38: Advanced - Scales - Module 2
● Form 1 G Major Scale ● Form 2 G Major Scale ● Form 3 and 4 G Major Scale ● Form 5 G Major Scale ● Form 6 G Major or E Minor Form 1 Scale ● Form 7 G Major Scale
Section 39: Advanced - Scales - The Modes (aka Jazz Modes)
● All About The Modes - Part 1 - Overview ● All About The Modes - Part 2 - Modal Intervals Using Whole/Half Steps ● All About The Modes - Part 3 - Thinking About The Modal Notes ● All About The Modes - Part 4 - Thinking In "Sharps" and "Flats" ● All About The Modes - Part 5 - How To Match Modes With Chords ● All About The Modes - Part 6 - Applying Modal Theory To The 12 Bar Blues ● All About The Modes - Part 7 - How To Think About Modes Over Embellished Chords
Section 40: Advanced - Blues Guitar - Riff and Licks - Module 1
● Primer 1 Licks Measure 1 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 2 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 3 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 4 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 5 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 6 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 7 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 8 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 9 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 10 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 11 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 12 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 13 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 14 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 15 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 16 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 17 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 18 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 19 ● Primer 1 Licks Measure 20
Section 41: Advanced - Blues Guitar - Riff and Licks - Module 2
● Boogie Woogie - Basic Key of A ● Boogie Woogie - Basic Key of A - Variation 1 ● Boogie Woogie - Basic Key of A - Variation 2 ● Boogie Woogie - Basic Key of G ● Boogie Woogie Basic Key of G - Variation 1 ● Boogie Woogie - Basic Key of G - Variation 2 ● Boogie Woogie - Basic Key of F with Turnaround ● Boogie Woogie Turnaround - Key of A - Lick 1 ● Boogie Woogie Turnaround - Key of A - Lick 2 ● Boogie Woogie Turnaround - Key of A - Lick 3 ● Boogie Woogie Turnaround - Key of A - Lick 4 measure 7 and 8 ● Boogie Woogie Turnaround - Key of A - Lick 5 ● Bending the Minor 3rd or b3 Within the Minor Blues or Minor Pentatonic Scale
● Introduction To Blues Scale ● Minor Blues Form 1 ● Minor Blues Form 2 ● Minor Blues Form 3 ● Minor Blues Form 4 ● Minor Blues Form 5 ● Major Blues Forms Related To Minor
Section 44: Advanced - Blues Guitar - Call and Response
● Introduction To "Call and Response" Lead Playing Exercises ● Call and Response for Beginner Lead Players ● Call and Response for Intermediate Lead Players ● Call and Response for Intermediate Lead Players #2
Section 45: Advanced - Blues Guitar - Embellishment Notes To The Blues Scale ● Adding the Major 3rd to the Blues Scale ● Adding the Major 6th to the Blues Scale ● Adding the Major 2nd to the Blues Scale ● Extending the Blues Scale - Adding the "1" Chord Notes to the Blues Scale ● Extending the Blues Scale - Adding the "4" Chord Notes to the Blues Scale ● Extending the Blues Scale - Adding the "5" Chord Notes to the Blues Scale
