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