Overview
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Learn how to play guitar at your own pace. These easy-to-follow videos feature examples in TAB and standard music notation, and hands-on instruction by guitar virtuoso Jared Meeker.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Getting to know your tools
- Tuning
- The notes on the fretboard
- Reading tablature (TAB)
- Your first chords: "Easy" G, C, and D7
- Strumming a song
- Awesome tips for learning and switching chords
- Full-size chords: D, A, and G
- Full-size chords: E and C
- The notes and the staff
- Notes on the 1st string
- Notes on the 2nd string
- Time
- Notes on the 3rd string
- Rests
- Eighth notes
- Notes on the 4th string
- Eighth rests and dotted notes
- Notes on the 5th and 6th strings
- Sight-reading songs
- Adding sharps and flats
- Reading key signatures
- 1st and 2nd endings
- Minor chords
- Bluegrass G chord and a C chord to match
- The art of strumming
- Country and bluegrass strumming
- Country and bluegrass flatpicking
- Rocking out with syncopation
- Cadd9
- Waltz time
- The right-hand position
- First fingerpicking patterns
- Alternating bass patterns
- Travis picking and pinch patterns
- Fingerpicking in waltz time
- Improvisation and music theory
- The major scale
- The circle of 5ths
- Open-position major scales in C, G, and D
- Movable major scale fingerings
- Intervals are your building blocks
- Interval fingerings
- Harmony and chords
- Getting started with improvisation
- The 12-bar blues
- Blues rhythm
- The minor pentatonic scale
- Beginning blues improvisation
- Bending
- New chords: The dominant 7th
- More 7th chords: Blues in E
- Minor blues and minor 7th chords
- The major pentatonic scale
- Switching chords mid-measure
- Split strumming
- The mute stroke
- A new folk/country strum and I–V–vi–IV
- Transposition
- Power chords
- Barre chords
- Thumb chords
- Hammer-ons and pull-offs
- Walking the bass
- Musical expression, phrasing, and dynamics
- Goodbye
