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.

1.Beginner

• Picking Your First Guitar I can choose a beginner guitar that suits me
• Holding the Guitar and Pick I can hold the guitar and pick comfortably
• Tuning Your Guitar I can tune my guitar with a tuner
• Fretting Notes Cleanly I can fret a note so it rings clearly
• Open Chords: Em, Am and E I can play clean Em, Am and E chords
• Open Chords: D and A I can play clean D and A chords
• Strumming Downstrokes in Time I can strum steady downstrokes in time

2.Upper Beginner

• Changing Chords Smoothly I can switch between open chords without stopping
• Open Chords: G and C I can play clean G and C chords
• Reading Chord Charts and Tabs
• Down-Up Strumming Patterns
• Your First Song
• Power Chords
• Palm Muting
• The F Chord

3.Intermediate

• The Minor Pentatonic Scale
• E-Shape Barre Chords
• A-Shape Barre Chords
• Seventh Chords
• Fingerpicking Basics
• Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
• Alternate Picking
• The Major Scale

4.Upper Intermediate

• String Bending
• Vibrato
• Slides
• The Twelve-Bar Blues
• Travis Picking
• Sus and Add Chords
• Sixteenth-Note Strumming
• The CAGED System

5.Advanced

• The Five Pentatonic Positions
• Triads Across the Neck
• Legato Runs
• String Skipping
• Harmonics
• Hybrid Picking
• Drop D and Alternate Tunings
• Chord-Tone Soloing

6.Expert

• Sweep Picking
• Tapping
• Economy Picking
• Modes of the Major Scale
• Jazz Chord Voicings
• Chord Melody
• Playing in Odd Time
• Transcribing by Ear

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