Introduction | p. 5 |
About the Author | p. 5 |
p. 6 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
Standard Notation | p. 6 |
Tablature | p. 8 |
Chord Diagrams | p. 9 |
Scale Diagrams | p. 10 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Using the Metronome | p. 10 |
Rhythm Exercises 1 and 2 | p. 11 |
Open String Chords | p. 12 |
Sight-Reading | |
C Major: 1st or Open Position | p. 13 |
Sight-Reading Exercises 1 and 2 | p. 14 |
Scales and Technique | |
Warm-up Exercise | p. 16 |
Pentatonic Scales | p. 16 |
p. 18 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
Major Scale Construction | p. 18 |
Bar Lines | p. 18 |
Repeats | p. 19 |
Accidentals | p. 19 |
Key Signatures | p. 20 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Triplets | p. 21 |
Rhythm Exercises 3 and 4 | p. 22 |
Barre Chords | p. 23 |
Sight-Reading | |
Positions | p. 24 |
Sight-Reading Exercises 3 and 4 | p. 25 |
Scales and Techniques | |
Pentatonic Scale Sequences | p. 27 |
Extended Pentatonic Scales | p. 28 |
p. 29 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
Beams | p. 29 |
Flags | p. 29 |
Ties | p. 29 |
Dots | p. 29 |
Chord Charts | p. 30 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Rhythm Exercises 5 and 6 | p. 30 |
Power Chords | p. 32 |
Sight-Reading | |
Sight-Reading Exercises 5 and 6 | p. 33 |
Scales and Techniques | |
Blues Scales | p. 34 |
Repeating Patterns | p. 35 |
Bends and Slides | p. 36 |
Blues | p. 38 |
Blues Chord Progressions | |
12-Bar Blues | p. 38 |
12-Bar Minor Blues | p. 38 |
12-Bar Jazz Blues | p. 39 |
8-Bar Blues | p. 40 |
8-Bar Blues Variation | p. 40 |
8-Bar Jazz Blues | p. 40 |
16-Bar Blues | p. 40 |
Intros, Endings, and Turnarounds | p. 41 |
Rhythm Figures | |
Two-Note Patterns | p. 42 |
One-Note Patterns | p. 42 |
Full-Chord Patterns | p. 43 |
Improvising Concepts | |
A Minor Pentatonic over Entire Blues Progression | p. 43 |
Shifting Major and Minor Pentatonics over Each Chord | p. 44 |
Shifting Major Pentatonics over Chords | p. 44 |
Shifting Minor Pentatonics over Chords | p. 45 |
Mixolydian Scales | p. 45 |
Blues Scales | p. 46 |
p. 47 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
Intervals | p. 47 |
Perfect Intervals | p. 48 |
The Tritone | p. 48 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Rhythm Pyramids | p. 48 |
Rhythm Exercises 7 and 8 | p. 49 |
7th Chords | p. 50 |
Sight-Reading | |
Sight-Reading Exercises 7 and 8 | p. 52 |
Scales and Techniques | |
Major Scales | p. 53 |
Minor Scales | p. 54 |
Major Scales: Horizontal Movement | p. 54 |
Interval Workout: C Major | p. 56 |
p. 59 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
Intervals II | p. 59 |
Compound Intervals | p. 59 |
Complementary Intervals | p. 60 |
Interval Fingerings | p. 60 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Rhythm Pyramid Exercises | p. 62 |
Rhythm Exercises 9 and 10 | p. 63 |
6th Chords | p. 64 |
Sight-Reading | |
Sight-Reading Exercises 9 and 10 | p. 65 |
Scales and Techniques | |
Alternate Picking | p. 66 |
Repeating Patterns | p. 67 |
Pedal Tone Licks | p. 70 |
p. 71 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
Circle of Fifths | p. 71 |
Relative Minors | p. 71 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Muted Strums | p. 72 |
Rhythm Exercises 11 and 12 | p. 72 |
Diminished 7th Chords | p. 74 |
Sight-Reading | |
Sight-Reading Exercises 11 and 12 | p. 74 |
Scales and Techniques | |
Bending | p. 76 |
Vibrato | p. 78 |
Slides | p. 78 |
Rock | p. 81 |
Palm Muting | p. 81 |
Sixteenth-Note Rhythms | p. 82 |
Scratch Notes | p. 84 |
Octaves | p. 84 |
Improvising Concepts | p. 85 |
Miscellaneous Techniques | p. 86 |
p. 87 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
Triads: Major, Minor, Diminished, Augmented | p. 87 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Time Signatures: Even Meters, Compound Meters, and Odd Meters | p. 89 |
Rhythm Exercises 13 and 14 | p. 90 |
Triads: Major and Minor | p. 92 |
Sight-Reading | |
Sight-Reading Exercises 13 and 14 | p. 93 |
Scales and Techniques | |
Three-Note-per-String Scales | p. 94 |
Three-Note-per-String Sequences | p. 95 |
p. 98 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
Triad Inversions | p. 98 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Dotted Notes | p. 98 |
Rhythm Exercises 15 and 16 | p. 99 |
Triads: Diminished and Augmented | p. 100 |
Sight-Reading | |
Sight-Reading Exercises 15 and 16 | p. 102 |
Scales and Techniques | |
Three-Note-per-String Scales: Vertical Movement | p. 103 |
Three-Note-per-String Scales: Horizontal Movement | p. 104 |
Three-Note-per-String Scales: Variations | p. 106 |
p. 108 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
Triads: Review | p. 108 |
Naming Triads | p. 108 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Syncopation | p. 108 |
Rhythm Exercises 17 and 18 | p. 109 |
Four-Note Triad Voicings | p. 110 |
Sight-Reading | |
Sight-Reading Exercises 17 and 18 | p. 112 |
Scales and Techniques | |
Major Triad Arpeggios: Diagonal, Horizontal, and Vertical Movement | p. 113 |
Minor Triad Arpeggios: Diagonal, Horizontal, and Vertical Movement | p. 114 |
Latin | p. 116 |
Brazilian Rhythm Patterns | |
Bossa Nova | p. 116 |
Samba | p. 116 |
Afro-Cuban Rhythm Patterns | |
Bolero, Cha Cha, Mambo | p. 117 |
Comping Patterns | |
Bossa Nova | p. 117 |
Bolero | p. 118 |
Cha Cha | p. 118 |
p. 119 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
7th Chords | p. 119 |
The Primary 7th Chords | p. 120 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Quarter-Note Triplets | p. 120 |
Rhythm Exercises 19 and 20 | p. 121 |
Sus4 Chords | p. 123 |
Sus2 Chords | p. 123 |
Sight-Reading | |
Sight-Reading Exercises 19 and 20 | p. 124 |
Scales and Techniques | |
7th Arpeggios | p. 126 |
p. 128 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
Extended Chords: 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths | p. 128 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Half-Note Triplets | p. 129 |
Rhythm Exercises 21 and 22 | p. 130 |
Funk Chords | p. 131 |
Sight-Reading | |
Sight-Reading Exercises 21 and 22 | p. 133 |
Scales and Techniques | |
Practicing Arpeggios | p. 134 |
p. 136 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
The Function of Chords | p. 136 |
The Cadence | p. 136 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Triplet Combinations | p. 136 |
Rhythm Exercises 23 and 24 | p. 137 |
Harmonized C Major Scale: Triads and 7th Chords | p. 139 |
Sight-Reading | |
Sight-Reading Exercises 23 and 24 | p. 140 |
Scales and Techniques | |
Rhythmic Displacement | p. 141 |
Funk | p. 144 |
Syncopation Exercises | |
Typical Sixteenth-Note Rhythms | p. 144 |
Triplets | |
Typical Triplet Rhythms | p. 145 |
Funk Grooves | |
One-Chord Grooves | p. 146 |
Single-Note Grooves | p. 147 |
Octave Grooves | p. 148 |
Triplet Grooves | p. 148 |
Improvising Concepts | |
Rhythmic Motives | p. 149 |
p. 150 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
The Modes of the Major Scale | p. 150 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Shuffle Feel | p. 151 |
Rhythm Exercises 25 and 26 | p. 152 |
9th Chords | p. 153 |
13th Chords | p. 154 |
Sight-Reading | |
Chord Chart Reading Exercises 1 and 2 | p. 154 |
Scales and Techniques | |
Legato Playing | p. 155 |
Repeating Scalar Patterns | p. 156 |
Pentatonic Sequences | p. 157 |
Major Scales: Diagonal Movement | p. 158 |
Major Scales: Horizontal Movement | p. 159 |
p. 160 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
The Modes of the Major Scale II | p. 160 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Odd Groupings | p. 161 |
Rhythm Exercises 27 and 28 | p. 162 |
11th Chords | p. 164 |
Dominant Sus Chords | p. 164 |
Altered Chords | p. 164 |
Sight-Reading | |
Chord Chart Reading Exercises 3 and 4 | p. 165 |
Scales and Techniques: Tapping | |
Tapping Triad Arpeggios | p. 166 |
Pentatonic Tapping Licks | p. 167 |
Open-String Tapping Licks | p. 168 |
Pedal-Tone Tapping Licks | p. 168 |
Tapped Slides | p. 169 |
Scalar Tapping Licks | p. 170 |
Eight-Fingered Tapping | p. 171 |
p. 172 | |
Harmony and Theory | |
Substitutions | p. 172 |
Pentatonic Substitutions | p. 173 |
Rhythm Concepts | |
Groups of Four in 3/4 | p. 174 |
Rhythm Exercises 29 and 30 | p. 174 |
Major ii-V-I Progressions | p. 176 |
Minor ii-V-i Progressions | p. 176 |
Sight-Reading | |
Chord Chart Reading Exercises 5 and 6 | p. 177 |
Scales and Techniques: Sweep Picking | |
Scales | p. 178 |
Triads | p. 179 |
Arpeggios | p. 181 |
Sweep Picking with Tapping | p. 183 |
Jazz | p. 184 |
Common Chord Progressions | |
ii-V-I Progressions | p. 184 |
Cycle of 4ths | p. 184 |
Rhythm Changes | p. 185 |
Modal Improvisation | p. 185 |
Typical Jazz Standard | p. 186 |
Common Jazz Rhythms | |
Ballad, Medium Swing | p. 186 |
Improvising Concepts | |
Modes | p. 187 |
Arpeggios | p. 188 |
Altered Scale | p. 188 |
Harmonic Minor Scale | p. 190 |
Guitar Notation Legend | p. 191 |
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