Guitar Lessons Syllabus
Beginner
- Naming parts of the guitar and music notes
- The string names and notes on fretboard
- Open chords, Major Minor and 7th
- Strumming, keeping an even rhythm
- Reading a song sheet with chord symbols
- A consistent practice regime
- Simple finger picking technique
- Tuning the guitar and using a Capo
- Reading simple Guitar Tablature
- Pentatonic and Major Scales
Intermediate
- Advances strumming and picking techniques and using a plectrum
- Fretboard technique: Slide, Bend, Vibrato Hammer on Pull off, Mute, Harmonics
- Tablature – chords, arpeggios fretboard effects, time signature, repeats and coda
- Barre Chords rooted on the E string and the A string
- Chords Major, minor, dominant, suspended, augmented diminished
- Scale & modes in two octaves - Pentatonic, Blues, Major and Natural Minor
- Blues and Popular chord progressions
- Basic Improvisation Techniques
Advanced
- Chord Construction
- Interpreting a lead sheet
- Advanced Scales - Harmonic and Jazz Minor, Whole tone, Diminished, Exotic
- Jazz and Cyclic Chord Progressions
- Chord Substitution - Secondary Dominant, ii V I, Tritone, Modal Interchange
- Modulation and Cycles - Pivot Chords, Relative Minors, Tritone
- Using the whole fretboard, Vertical boxes, 3 note per string, Frying Pan, CAGED
- Advanced Improvisation Techniques - Arpeggio, scale fragments, double stops, modes
- Reading Standard Notation