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Beginners Course
Lesson 1: The Basics
Lesson 1/The Basics: FAQ's
Lesson 1/The Basics: Parts of the Guitar
Lesson 1/The Basics: Get your Guitar "Set-up" so it will be "Playable"
Lesson 1/The Basics: Get Your Guitar in Tune
Lesson 1/The Basics: Posture
Lesson 1/The Basics: Thoughts on How to hold the Guitar Pick
Lesson 1/The Basics: Fretting Hand Finger Numbers
Lesson 1/The Basics: How to read the Chord Diagram
Lesson 1/The Basics: The Metronome and How to use it
Lesson 1/The Basics: How To Read Tablature
Lesson 1/The Basics: Note Duration Breakdown
Lesson 2: The First String: E
Lesson 3: The Second String: B
Two String Melodies
Lesson 4: The Third String: G
Lesson 5: The Fourth String: D
Lesson 6: The Fifth String: A
Lesson 7: The Sixth String; E
Forming Your First Chord
Basic Chord Forms
Movable Chord Forms
Movable Chord Forms - Major 7th, Minor 7th and Dominant 7th
Drop D tuning Chord voicings Lesson
Lots more chord forms..................
Chord Progressions
Basic Rhythm Guitar
Basic Rhythm Guitar - Tied Notes
Strum Patterns Combined
Chord Progressions and Strum Patterns combined
Power Chords
Power Chord examples 3-13-2010
Palm Muting
Adding Accents
Blues
The 12 Bar Blues - Expanding the Pattern
Blues/boogie rhyth guitar figures
Fingerstyle
Arpeggiating Basic Chord Forms - Variations
Fingerstyle example 11/23/10
Fingerstyle example 3/25/10
Fingerstyle example 10/20/2009
A Guiliani Study for the Right Hand
Arpeggios using first extensions
Example 06-13-11
Fretting Hand Techniques
Examples of Bending
Examples of Bending 2
Hammer on/Pull of Sequence on String 4 and 5
Easy Exercises/Technique Builders
3 up, 3 down........
The Major scale
Keys and Chords
Full Fretboard Note names
Music Theory
Music Theory - How Music Works
Music Theory - Adding Accidentals
Music Theory - Building the Major Scale
Music Theory - Let's Build some more Major Scales for practice......
Music Theory - The Numbering System
Music Theory - Let's Build the G Major Scale...
Music Theory - Let's Build Diatonic Harmony in the Key of G Major
Phrases Over Tracks
Practice Track (midi) - General Beat 1
Practice Track (midi) - Rock 101
Practice Track (midi) - Chicago Blues
Practice Track (midi) - Hip Hop
Practice Track (midi) - Funk
Practice Track (midi) - Double Kick Rock
Practice Track (midi) - Punk
Track 100 - E Minor - Slow and Moody - Tempo 70 bpm
Track 101 - E Blues - Slow Blues - Tempo 72
Track 200 - G Major - Acoustic Pop - Tempo 80 bpm
Track 201 - G Major - Medium Rock - Tempo 81
Track 202 - G Major - Smooth Jazz - Tempo 81 bpm
Track 300 - E Minor - Jazzy - Tempo 100
Track 301 - E Blues - Medium Shuffle - Tempo 118
Track 400 - E Blues - Rock Shuffle - Tempo 130bpm
Practice Songs
Country Style Licks Series - 09/09/11
The E Minor Pentatonic scale - open position
Blues Lick 1
Pot 1
New Licks 11-12-10
"Chikin' Pickin' lick thang 11/23-10
Riff 3/18/2010
Chikin' Pickin' - Key of G
Diminished Riff 11/23/10
"Hendrix" style, movable/chord based embellishments over a C Major chord
Diminished lick - 10/30/2009
Phrases 1 - 5
Phrases 11-16
12 Bar Blues 3/17/2010
Workin' my way up to you babe......
Nice sequence involving 2 strings and hammer ons 3-17-2010
Pull offs on adjacent strings 3-25-2010
Rhythm and Melody 3-30-2010
Phrase over A dom 7 - 01-11-11
Phrase over E dom 7 - 01-11-11
Phrase - Rock Style E - 01-12-11
Phrase - Bluesy in A - 02-01-11
Phrase - 12 Bar Blues in A - 02-02-11
Phrase - 12 Bar Blues - 01-11-11
Phrase - Blues in A - 02-03-11
Phrase - Blues in A - 02-03-11-02
Phrase - Chickin' Pickin' Licks - 12-10-10
Phrase - 3 Lagrange style track licks
Phrase - Drop D Riff 1
Phrase - Funky Drop D Power Chord Riff - 02-03-11
Phrase - Embellishing over chords G, D and C
12-11-2010 - Blues Phases 1 - 4
melody in g
Arpeggios - Rock Style 5-08-2010
Arpeggios connected - all seven - Key of D Major
Embellishing over chords G and C Major
Fret Hand Muting
Hammer on Pull off exercise
Melodic Pattern - G Major Pentatonic/E Minor Pentatonic
2 dominant 7th based phrases
Blues Riff in A 05/05/11
What scale over G5, Bb5 and C5?
Phrase - Fast Rock Lick - E Blues - 06-08-11
Melodic Patterns
What it is to be in the Major, it's Relative Minor and the Blues of the same key
Rock Phrases 1 - 4
One octave G Major scale in 10 positions
Lick of the Day - 10-17-11
Lick of the Day - 10-19-11
Lick of the Day - 11-1-11
Songs and Tab
"Your Betrayel" -( intro) - Bullet for My Valentine
"Wild Horses" by The Rolling Stones
"Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" - Metallica (intro and intro solo)
"Welcome Home" the intro - by Coheed and Camria
"The First Cut is the Deepest" easy version
"Taking Care of Business" - (intro) - BTO
"Sweet Sunny South" - basic strum pattern - Norman and Nancy Blake
"Stewball" by Peter, Paul and Mary
"Stairway to Heaven" - The Solo
"Stairway to Heaven" (intro) part 2 - Led Zepplin
"Stairway to Heaven" (intro) part 1 - Led Zepplin
"Smoke on the Water" (intro/verse/chorus) - Deep Purple
"Rock n Roll" - Led Zeppelin - measure 1
"Rock You Like A Hurricane" - The Scorpians
"Rebel Rebel" - (intro riff) - David Bowie
"More Than Words" - Extreme - basic pattern
"Master of Puppets" - Metallica - main intro riff
"Little Wing" - intro - played slowly
"Let it Be" - The Beatles (simple version)
"Iron Man"-intro
"I'm Yours" - Jason Mraz
"I Need a Lover (who won't drive me crazy)" John Mellencamp
"Honky Tonk Woman" (easy version) - The Rolling Stones
"Honky Tonk Woman" - from :34 to :50 fill
"Honky Tonk Woman" - from :07 to :17 intro fill
"Hey there Delilah" - Plain White T's
"Hava Nigila" - Hal Leonard
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Chrismas" for solo guitar
"Hard to Handle" - The Black Crow - First Solo
"Gunslinger" (intro) - Avenged Sevenfold
"Good Riddance" - Green Day
"Go Your Own Way" - Fleetwood Mac
"Fire and Rain" - James Taylor - (Part 1)
"Dust in the Wind" - Kansas-fingerstyle pattern
"Dream on" - Aerosmith
"Come Monday" - Jimmy Buffet
"Cath" - by Deathcab for Cutie
Classical Guitar - Carcassi Etude No. 3
Classical Guitar - Carcassi Etude No. 14
"Busted" - (from :16-:18) - The Black Keys
"Boys of Summer" - (fingerstyle) Don Henly
"Better Together" - Jack Johnson
"Beauty in the Breakdown" - intro - The Scene Aesthetic
"Back in Black" chorus section - ACDC
"Back in Black" - (intro,verse section) - ACDC
"Arkansas Traveler" - Mel Bay
"Anna's Axe" - Mel Bay
"Alandria" by The Foo Fighters
"Age Six Racer" - Dashboard Confessional
"Africa" - by Toto
"You Shook Me All Night Long" - the solo - ACDC
"A Rite of Passage' - measures 34-41 - Dream Theatre
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Songs and Tab • "You Shook Me All Night Long" - the solo - ACDC