Overview
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If you're an acoustic guitar player looking for a challenge, then this course is for you. Learn about suspended chords, altered tuning, soloing patterns, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Reading music and tablature (TAB)
- Flatpicking arpeggios
- Suspended chords
- Add9 chords
- Movable dominant 7th chords
- Harmonics
- Tuning with harmonics
- Slides
- Bending strings and vibrato
- Acoustic funk strumming
- Acoustic funk split strumming
- Creating a monster funk groove
- A taste of swing
- The grooves of New Orleans
- Modern celtic rhythm guitar
- Old-time guitar: The roots of bluegrass
- Bluegrass part 1: Flatpicking a fiddle tune
- Bluegrass part 2: Backup and lead
- Delta blues
- Rule the fretboard in five Notes—the major pentatonic scale sliding fingering
- Blurring the line between rhythm and lead
- The minor pentatonic sliding fingering
- The five positions of the minor pentatonic scale
- The five positions of the major pentatonic scale
- Using the pentatonic scales to play the 8-bar blues
- Major triads up the neck
- Minor triads up the neck
- Triads in reggae
- The five major triad block forms
- Harmony for writing and arranging
- Double stops
- Getting creative with open strings
- Drop D tuning
- Double drop D tuning
- Open G tuning
- Open D tuning
- Conclusion and credits
