Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Getting Started - The Beginner Guitarist
• Stretching & Chord Preparation
• Strumming and Holding the Pick
• The Five Basic Open Chords
• The Five Basic Barre Chords
• Strings 6&5 and Octaves
• For The Intermediate-Advanced Guitarist
• How To Use The Metronome
• Strumming Exercise
• Alternate Picking – The Straight & Shuffle Feel
• The Musical Alphabet
• The Fret Board and Scale Numbers
• Intervals
• The CAGED Chord Shapes
• The Diatonic Chord Scales on the 6th String
• The Diatonic Chord Scales on the 5th String
• Chord Scale Awareness
• The Diatonic Scales by Numbers
• The Number Shortcut
• The Major, Minor & Dom7 Chords & Scales
• The Seven Diatonic Scales
• Using the Seven Ionian Major 7 Scale Fingerings
• Using the Seven Aeolian Minor 7 Scale Fingerings
• Using the Seven Mixolydian Dominant 7 Scale Fingerings
• The Major & Minor Tri-Ads
• The Major7 & Minor7 Arpeggios
• The Dominant7 Arpeggios
• The Major & Minor Tri-ad Inversions
• The Major & Minor Pentatonic Scales
• The Whole Tone & Augmented Scales
• The Four Main Scale Fingerings
• The Diminished & Dom 7b9 Scales
• The Chromatic Scale
• Extracting Other Scales From The Modes
• The 12 Chords To Know & Solo Over
• More on Using Scales
• The Turn Around
• The Blues 1,4,5 Chords
• The Twelve Dominant 7th Shapes
• Reminders & Things to Practice that Really Help
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• Blank Tab Page