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Guitar
From holding a pick to barre chords, bending, the blues and beyond. A structured guitar progression across 6 levels, from your first open chord to improvising over changes.
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1. Beginner
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Picking Your First Guitar
- 1.3 Holding the Guitar and Pick
- 1.4 Tuning Your Guitar
- 1.5 Fretting Notes Cleanly
- 1.6 Open Chords: Em, Am and E
- 1.7 Open Chords: D and A
- 1.8 Strumming Downstrokes in Time
2. Upper Beginner
- 2.1 Changing Chords Smoothly
- 2.2 Open Chords: G and C
- 2.3 Reading Chord Charts and Tabs
- 2.4 Down-Up Strumming Patterns
- 2.5 Your First Song
- 2.6 Power Chords
- 2.7 Palm Muting
- 2.8 The F Chord
3. Intermediate
- 3.1 The Minor Pentatonic Scale
- 3.2 E-Shape Barre Chords
- 3.3 A-Shape Barre Chords
- 3.4 Seventh Chords
- 3.5 Fingerpicking Basics
- 3.6 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
- 3.7 Alternate Picking
- 3.8 The Major Scale
4. Upper Intermediate
- 4.1 String Bending
- 4.2 Vibrato
- 4.3 Slides
- 4.4 The Twelve-Bar Blues
- 4.5 Travis Picking
- 4.6 Sus and Add Chords
- 4.7 Sixteenth-Note Strumming
- 4.8 The CAGED System
5. Advanced
- 5.1 The Five Pentatonic Positions
- 5.2 Triads Across the Neck
- 5.3 Legato Runs
- 5.4 String Skipping
- 5.5 Harmonics
- 5.6 Hybrid Picking
- 5.7 Drop D and Alternate Tunings
- 5.8 Chord-Tone Soloing
6. Expert
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