Overview
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Get a beginner's guide to rock guitar. Learn how to start immediately playing riffs and licks, reading music, playing chords, and learning guitar at your own pace.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- The parts of your guitar
- The acoustic guitar
- The electric guitar
- Which guitar is best for me?
- How to hold your guitar
- The amp
- The right hand
- The left hand
- How to tune your guitar
- Getting acquainted with music
- Getting acquainted with tablature
- Left-hand finger numbers
- The sixth string E
- Sound-off: How to count time
- The fifth string A
- Repeat signs
- The fourth string D
- Playing two notes together
- The third string G
- The quarter rest
- Power chords
- The second string B
- The first string E
- Review
- The major scale
- Six-string E minor (Em) chord
- Quarter-note slash
- Five-string A7 chord
- Introducing high A
- Ties
- Eighth notes
- Four-string D7 chord
- Six-string E chord
- Introducing the eighth-note slash
- Five-string A chord
- 11 classic rock strumming patterns
- Sharps, flats, and naturals
- Signs of silence
- Playing two notes together: Blues patterns
- Move up the neck on the 6th string
- Moving up the neck on the 5th string
- Moving up the neck on the 4th string
- Moving up the neck on the 3rd string
- More on power chords
- Six-string G chord
- Chords in standard notation
- Rock and blues licks and tricks
- The bend
- The E minor pentatonic scale
- The A minor pentatonic scale
- Incomplete measures or pickup
- Conclusion and credits
