BEGINNER GUITAR COURSE.
(duration 6 month)
BASIC LESSONS.
Lesson 1: 1] introduction to course. 2]parts of guitar 3] standard tuning.
4]Note identification over fret-board.
Lesson 2: 1] How to hold the Guitar 2] Guitar Anatomy
3] Finger, Frets and Numbers 4] Picking exercise 5] Finger exercises.
Lesson 3: 1] How to read Leads 2] How to read Chord diagrams
3] How to tune your guitar.
Lesson 4: 1] Basic Chords 2] Chord holding technics 3] Some Major
Chords 4] Some Minor Chords.
Lesson 5: 1] Chord changing technics. 2] Basic Chord Progressions.
Lesson 6: 1] Major Scale. 2] Fret-board Notes 3] How to make Major
scale. 4] harmonization of Scale.
Lesson 7: 1] Basic of Rhythm Guitar 2] Strumming Technics.
3] Common Strumming Patterns.
Lesson 8: 1] How to read Chords n Leads Notations 2] How to play
songs on Chords 3] How to play songs on Leads
Lesson 9: 1] Minor scale 2] How to make Minor scale 3] Harmonization
of scale.
Lesson 10: 1] Different shapes of chords over fret-board, all shapes of
chords moving over fret-board. 2] Sharp and Flat Chords.
Lesson 11: Understanding 7th, 9th, sus 2, sus 4 chords and Major
7th chords and Minor 7th chords.
INTERMEDIATE COURSE
(12 months)
SOME ADVANCED TOPICS
Lesson 12: 1] Introduction to Pentatonic scale and Pentatonic Blues
scale 2] C major / A minor pentatonic on first two position.
Lesson 13: 1] Basic of 12 Bar Blues 2] 12 Bar Blues Progressions.
Lesson 14: 1] Introduction Rock music 2] Power chords.
Lesson 15: 1] Fret playing (mastering fret-board) 2] Hammer on, Pull
On, Pull Off technics.
Lesson 16: 1] How to play Bar chords 2] E shape bar chords
3] A shape bar chords.
Lesson 17: 1] Introduction to Fingerstyle Guitar 2] Fingerstyle Practices
3] Fingerstyle patterns 4] Fingerstyle Songs.
Lesson 18: Part A 1] Ear Training 2] Rhythm Guitar 3] Tapping
Technics.
Lesson 18: Part B 1] chord progressions. 2] 12 bar blues variations.
3] applied fingerstyle patterns.
Lesson 19: 1] Slash chords 2] Triplet rhythms 3] palm mute.
Lesson 20: 1] Songs Bollywood, Western performing 2] jamming
technics 3] theory basics.
THEORY
Table of Contents:
1.Introduction
1.1 - Where to start?
1.2 - The first 10 thing to learn
2.0 - What intervals and steps are
2.1 - Interval guide
2.2 - Steps
2.3 - Tones and semi-tones
3.0 - Understanding the Chromatic scale
4.0 - The Major scale
4.1 - Triads
5.0 - The Circle of Fifths and Key Signatures Introduction
5.1 - The Circle of Fifths
5.2 - Key Signatures - How they work
6.0 - Chord Construction
6.1 - Extending
6.2 - Altering
6.3 - Suspended Chords
6.4 - Inversions
7.0 - The meaning of "Diatonic" and what it does
7.1 - Diatonic in chords
7.2 - Diatonic in scales
7.3 - E# and B# DO exist
8.0 - Finding out what chords are in what key
9.0 - Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor scales
Introduction
9.1 - Natural Minor Scale
9.2 - Harmonic Minor Scale
9.3.0 - Melodic Minor Ascending
9.3.1 - Melodic Minor Descending
9.4 - What chords do these scales go with?
10.0 - The Modes of the Major scale Introduction
10.1 - Using the intervals
10.2 - Using the Steps
10.3 - Using the modes over chords
11.0 - Applying #1-9 on the guitar Introduction
11.1 - Applying "What Intervals and Steps are"
11.2 - Applying "Understanding the Chromatic Scale"
11.3 - Applying "The major scale and Triads"
11.4 - Applying "Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor and Melodic Minor
Scales"
11.5 - Applying "The Modes of the Major scale"
*CONCLUSION
If One goes through these lessons according to training manner, then
he/she would be able to play guitar
1. Fully understand guitar and its music concepts from very beginning,
2. Will learn all kinds of popular scales including, pentatonic scales.
3. Play and understand different kinds of chords played on guitar i.e.
major, minor, 7th, 9th, sus2, sus4, add, dim, and power chords, bar
chords etc. you will learn how chords are formed.
4. Learn all popular rhythms used in western songs as well as Bollywood
songs.
5. figure-out scale (key) and chords and rhythm pattern for much of
popular songs/ worship songs/ Bollywood songs, alone.
6. Understand basics of western music theory as well as reading and
writing of music notations / tabulation (tab).
7. And above all, this will be base of solid ground in music, would
possess basic theoretical knowledge of western music, and of guitar,
would be able to understand music language, style, and all other terms
used on You-tube and elsewhere in music/ guitar tutorials, can also go
ahead in music.
thank you.
