Basic Progression of Learning Guitar

Topics to Learn First

Open Chords Power Chords Barre Chords Scale Patterns Lots of Songs Basic Notes Some Melodies and Licks

Theory Topics
Chord Theory o (How Theyre built) o CAGED system Scales Chord Progressions

Tricks on Memorizing Notes on Strings

Guitar Fretboard o Its a grid o Chords and scales make shapes and patterns o Guitarists visualize these shapes and patterns to help understand the neck o They connect these patterns and shapes to improvise and build songs o All scales and patterns can be traced back to these 2 strings o Octave Shapes can be used to trace any note back to these 2 strings o You can chart progressions and determine correct scales by connecting patterns, with no regard for key signatures etc. Notes on strings 5 and 6 o 6th String Notes Learn the natural notes on string 6 and 5 up to 12th fret 5th fret is for relative tuning *Put A, B,& C together as a group Know them Forward & Backward o 5th String Notes Group A, B, & C together 5th fret = D (like next string, remember relative tuning) E Matches 12th fret of string 6 also its an octave above open sting 6 Remember F is step above E F, G, A all 1 whole step apart Do it Backwards and Forward

Tricks

Trace any note Back To string 5 & 6 Octave shape from5th & 6th strings is over 2 strings up 2 frets Octave shape for 4th strings is over 2 strings up 3 frets Octave Shape Songs: Fire (Jimmi Hendrix), 3rd Stone From The Sun (Jimmi Hendrix), Immigrant Song (Led Zepplin), My Sharona,

Pentatonic Scales
Learn Every Pattern Forward and backward Link Patterns 1-5 going up the neck and down the neck VISUALIZE the pattern. Learn the Patten and not the fret # Minor Pentatonics contain all the notes of their associated root minor chord i.e. Emin pentatonic has all the notes of Eminor chord This scale can be played over any progression revolving around that root minor o The minor pentatonics always have a relative major o The first note of pattern one is the root of the Minor, the first note of pattern 2 is the root of the MAJOR i.e. E, in pattern 1 is the root of Emin. Pentatonic & G (the first note of pattern 2) is the root of Gmaj. Pentatonic, but all the same notes are played in both scales. o Some Pentatonic Scale Songs Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) I Shot The Sherrif (Eric Clapton) Lady Marmalade Back in Black (AC/DC ) Suzy Q (CCR) My Girl (The Temptations) Purple Haze (Hendrix) o Pentatonic Solo Beverly Hills (Weezer) Hey Joe (Hendrix) o Chromatic Passing Tones The blues scale is just a pentatonic with chromatic passing tones Roadhouse Blues Sunshine of your Love More Pentatonic Songs: Susie Q Creedence Clearwater RevivalGtr. Riff Green River Creedence Clearwater RevivalGtr. Riff Purple Haze Jimi HendrixGtr. Riff Are You Gonna Go My Way Lenny Kravitz.Gtr. Riff Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Jimi o o o o

Hendrix.Gtr. Riff Back In Black AC/DC..Gtr. Riff Man in the Box Alice In Chains..Gtr. Riff/Vocal Melody Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry.Bass & Gtr. During Verse Paranoid Black Sabbath..Gtr. Solo Hey Joe Jimi HendrixGtr. Solo Turn Off the Light Nelly Furtado.Gtr. Solo Pawn Shop Sublime..Bass, Gtr. Solo Good Times, Bad Times Led Zeppelin.Gtr. Solo Honky Tonk Woman The Rolling StonesIntro Gtr. Lick Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd12-String & Lead Gtr. Intro, Bass Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd SkynyrdGtr. Intro & Solos Centerfold The J. Geils Band.Gtr. Riff Cannonball Duane Eddy..Gtr. Riff Amazing Grace Hymn..Vocal Melody LowriderWar .Bass Born Under a Bad Sign Cream.Bass Lady Marmalade Patti Labelle..Bass & Gtr. Money for Nothing Dire Straits.Gtr. Riff I Shot the Sheriff Bob Marley/Eric ClaptonGtr. Riff at Chorus

CAGED Chords
Take Common open forms and convert them into Barre chords Break the Forms into Arpeggios, Voicings, Inversions, Shapes & Fingerings Jack & Diane, Stairway To Heaven, Tears in Heaven, The Wind Cries Mary, Crash into Me