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Fret board Diagram

Standard Tuning

Music Notation

• Staves, Bass & Treble Clefs
• Key signatures
• Time signatures and Tempo
• Note values: including dotted notes, triplets and rests
• Ties, slurs, accidentals and pickup notes
• Common guitar music symbols

Scales

• Chromatic Scale
• Natural Major and Minor
• Relative Minor, Pentatonic and Blues Scales
• Relating scales
• Scale fingering

Chords

• Basic
• Complex including diminished, augmented and (m7b5)
• Barre chords, inverting and voicing chords
• Chord fingerings
• Open or 1st position
• Root 6 Barre Chords
• Root 5 Barre Chords
• Root 4 Chords, Power chords & open D tuning chords
• Using Chords
• Chord progressions and cadences
• Comping chords and Power Chords
• The ‘4 chord trick’
• Using scales with chords
• Using a Capo
• Signature licks and modal interchange
• Substituted chords and modulation

Blues

• 12 and 16 bar blues
• Turnarounds and endings

Bass Runs

Strumming chords

Picking styles and harmonics

Cycle of Keys

Major key signatures and parallel chords

Modes

Reading sheet music

• Song structure
• Endings, repeats and codas
• Lead sheet

Chords to accompany the voice and chord melody arrangements

Intros and outros for fingerstyle guitar

Non-standard guitar tunings

Choosing the right guitar and strings

Practice amplifiers

Acoustic guitar parts

List of figures