Building a Solid Foundation
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Welcome! (Download your PDF manual)
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BONUS: Get your Scale Book
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Introduction (0:11)
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The Guitar Pitch Axes (2:37)
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Defining 'Pitch' and 'Notes' (1:00)
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The Language of Music - Learning its Alphabet (2:32)
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Insight Into The Tuning of the Guitar Strings (1:21)
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Mapping out the Musical Alphabet Across The Fretboard (2:32)
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Defining The Distances 1 - The Whole Step (or Tone) (1:28)
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Defining The Distances 2 - The Half Step (or Semitone) (0:57)
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EXERCISE - Visualizing the Musical Alphabet all over the fretboard (1:45)
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QUIZ - Test your new knowledge
Expanding upon the Essentials
Fretboard Mastery
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Introduction (0:08)
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Overlapping Strings and Moving Notes (3:05)
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Finding Notes Using Octave Shapes 1 (2:23)
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Finding Notes Using Octave Shapes 2 (1:34)
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Linking the Octave Shapes For Fretboard Domination (2:47)
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EXERCISE - Visualizing the Octave Shapes (0:13)
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Horizontal Note Finding for Fretboard Memorization (2:00)
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The ULTIMATE Exercise For Fretboard Memorization (2:40)
The creation of melody from the Major Scale
Demystifying Key Signatures
Building Chords and Defining Keys
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Introduction (0:41)
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The Major Third (1:19)
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The Minor Third (2:42)
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Harmonizing The Major Scale in Thirds (2:31)
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Harmonizing on Different String Pairs (2:16)
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EXERCISE: Learning your Thirds (1:13)
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Harmonizing The Major Scale in Fifths (2:33)
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Creating Chords - Major Triad (1:53)
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Creating Chords - Minor Triad (0:47)
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Chords in the Key of D Major (3:05)
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What are the Chords in Other Keys? (2:50)
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QUIZ: Do you know your Chords?
Creating Chord Progressions
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Introduction (0:10)
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Your First Progression - I-IV (1:55)
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Adding the V Chord (and the Perfect Cadence) (2:08)
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Adding the Minor Chords (1:41)
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The Infamous Four-Chord Song Progression (1:41)
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Rooting The Chords Anywhere on the Fretboard (1:36)
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The I Chord (E-Shape Major Barre) (2:37)
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The ii and iii Chords (E-Shape Minor Barre) (1:30)
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The IV and V Chords (A-Shape Major Barre) (2:53)
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The vi Chord (A-Shape Minor Barre) (0:55)
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Playing ANY Progression in ANY Key (2:09)
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Capo Transposition - New Ways to Play the Same Chords (5:32)
Exploring in the Dark - The Minor Scale
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Introduction (0:41)
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How to play the Minor Scale (2:48)
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Everything is Relative (1:21)
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The Derivative Approach to Minor Scales (4:02)
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But what about the Scale Degrees? (2:32)
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The Parallel Approach to Minor Scales (2:11)
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EXERCISE: Playing and Creating with the Minor Scale (1:13)
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What Chords are found in a Minor Key? (2:34)
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V Chord in a Minor Key? (1:04)
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Flat symbols with Roman Numerals?! (1:23)
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Common Minor Key Progressions
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More Circle of Fifths Awesomeness (4:17)
The Power of Fives - Pentatonic Scales
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Introduction (0:39)
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How to Play the Major Pentatonic Scale (4:09)
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Learning the Major Pentatonic (0:44)
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How to Play the Minor Pentatonic Scale (2:33)
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Learning the Minor Pentatonic (0:21)
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The Vertical Pentatonic Scale (3:09)
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Getting More from the Pentatonic Box Pt. 1 (2:30)
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Getting More from the Pentatonic Box Pt. 2 (1:51)
An Introduction to Arpeggios
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Introduction (1:33)
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Playing a Major Arpeggio (5:20)
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Playing a Minor Arpeggio (2:53)
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Crossing Strings by Shifting the 5th (Major) (2:24)
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Crossing Strings by Shifting the 5th (Minor) (1:09)
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Shifting the 3rd (Major) (1:11)
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Shifting the 3rd (Minor) (0:48)
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EXERCISE: Mastering the Arpeggio Patterns (2:29)
Bring all your Knowledge Together
