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GUITAR TECHNIQUE & SKILL SEQUENCE:

1st Techniques & Skills:

  • “Simple C” - “Simple G7” Chords
  • 2-fingered: "C" & "G7"
  • 3-fingered: "C" & "G7"
  • 1st String Notes: ‘E’ - ‘F’ - ‘G'
  • Strumming to the beat using a "Metronome"

2nd Techniques & Skills:

  • “Simple D” - “A7” Chords
  • “Full D” Chord
  • “Strum Patterns”
  • 2nd String Notes: ‘B’ - ‘C’ - ‘D'
  • Scale: ‘C’-‘D’-‘E’-‘F’-‘G’

3rd Techniques & Skills:

  • “Simple G” - “Full G” & "D7" Chords
  • 3nd string notes “G”-“A”
  • Scale: ‘G’-‘A’-‘B’-‘C’-‘D’-‘E’-‘F’-‘G’ (Octave)

4th Techniques & Skills:

  • “E” – “Em” – “E7” Chords
  • 4th string notes ‘D’-‘E’-‘F’
  • Scale: ‘D’-‘E’-‘F’-‘G’-‘A’-‘B’-‘C’-‘D’

5th Techniques & Skills:

  • “Am” Chord
  • 5th string notes ‘A’-‘B’-‘C’
  • Scale: ‘A’-‘B’-‘C’-‘D’-‘E’-‘F’-‘G’-‘A’
  • Scale: “A-Blues Scale" - ‘Blue Licks”

6th Techniques & Skills:

  • “A” Chord
  • “Power Chords” E5 - A5 - D5 - G5
  • 6th string notes ‘E’-‘F’-‘G’
  • Scale: ‘E’-‘F’-‘G’-‘A’-‘B’-‘C’-‘D’-‘E’

7th Techniques & Skills:

  • “B7” Chords

8th Techniques & Skills:

  • "Dm" Chord

9th Techniques & Skills:

  • "G Maj.7
  • "C7" Chord (Also Movable)

10th Techniques & Skills:

  • "Moveable E-shaped barre chords"
  • "F Barre Chord"
  • "G Barre Chord"
  • "A Barre Chord"
  • "C Barre Chord"

11th Techniques & Skills:

  • "Moveable E-minor & E7 shaped barre chords"
For example: "F#m" - "Gm" -"F7" - "Bb7" Chords

12th Techniques & Skills:

  • "Moveable Am-shaped barre chords"
  • “Bm” & "Cm" & "C#m" Chords

13th Techniques & Skills:

  • "Movable "A" Shaped Chords
For example: "D-3rd Fret" - Eb Chord

14th Techniques & Skills:

  • "Diminished chords"

15th Techniques & Skills:

  • Advanced Scales & Chords
For example; 5bs - 9ths - #9ths - 13ths - Augmented Chords

 

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GUITAR BASICS:

1. Holding the Guitar

2. Strumming Techniques

3. Left hand finger position

4. Left Hand: Picking Single Strings

5. Right Hand: Fingerpicking with ‘p’-‘i’-‘m’ fingers.

6. Fingerstyle Chording -“Arpeggio style”

7. Tuning the Guitar

 

MUSIC THEORY:

1. “Reading Chord Charts” & “Slash Chords”
2. “Tablature & Staff Notation:
  • 1st String: ‘E’ - ‘F’ - ‘G' Notes
  • 2nd String: 'B' - 'C' - 'D' Notes
  • Scale: ‘C’-‘D’-‘E’-‘F’-‘G’
  • 3nd string notes “G”-“A”
  • Scale: ‘G’-‘A’-‘B’-‘C’-‘D’-‘E’-‘F’-‘G’ (Octave)
  • 4th string notes ‘D’-‘E’-‘F’
  • Scale: ‘D’-‘E’-‘F’-‘G’-‘A’-‘B’-‘C’-‘D’
  • 5th string notes ‘A’-‘B’-‘C’
  • Scale: ‘A’-‘B’-‘C’-‘D’-‘E’-‘F’-‘G’-‘A’
  • Scale: “A-Blues Scale" - ‘Blue Licks”
  • 6th string notes ‘E’-‘F’-‘G’
  • Scale: ‘E’-‘F’-‘G’-‘A’-‘B’-‘C’-‘D’-‘E’
3. RHYTHMIC NOTATION:
  • “Quarter‘ Notes & Rests”
  • “Eighth Notes”
4. CHORD PROGRESSIONS:
  • The I – V7 Chords in Key of C = (C & G7)
  • The I – V7 Chords in the Key of D= (D & A7)
  • The I – IV – V7 Chords in the Key of A= (A-D-E7)
  • The I – IV –V7 Chords in the Key of E= (E –A-B7)
  • The I – IV –V7 Chords in the Key of G= (G-C-D7)
  • The I – IV –V7 Chords in the Key of D= (D –G-A7)

12-Bar Blues Progression

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