Welcome and thank you for becoming a member and wanting to study online with me. Please excuse the different looks as I am giving the members section an overhaul, which includes adding mp3's, videos and general updating of each lesson. So far lessons 1-10 have been updated. Get started: Lesson 1

Lessons

I designed these lessons to be used when I teach small groups and one on one. Each lesson represents one 60 minute session and is ment to be practiced daily for one week before moving on to the next. Daily practice is the key, even if you can only do 10 minutes.

Lesson 1 is designed for a complete beginner who has never played guitar but does know how to use an electronic tuner to get their guitar in tune.

Even if you have played for awhile you may want to work your way through the early lessons just to make sure you understand the terms and get a feel for how the members section works as a whole. With the goal being to have a firm understanding of music theory, the fretboard, how to build any scale or chord, the technique to play anything you want to play, how to improvise and create great solos and how and what to practice to keep you progressing and having fun on the instrument.

Each lesson introduces a new idea or concept and uses different riffs and musical examples covering many guitar styles. Whether you like jazz, rock, metal, open your ears and mind. All the riffs used were specifically chosen to help you excel in different areas of the instrument. Each lesson has a section on reading, theory and improvising and progress steadily while reviewing and reinforcing the previous lessons.

Lesson 1 - Open Strings, Finger Gymnastics, Using a pick and Alternate picking,Getting started with finger picking and learn the intro to Metallica's Nothing Else Matters

Lesson 2 - How to build major scales, C Major scale in open, C Major Pentatonic in open and the main riff to My Girl

Lesson 3 - C & Am chords, Build diatonic triads and get started with the wonderful world of improvising

Lesson 4 - a closer look at major and minor chords, 2nd position C major scale, intervals and ear training, Em C Am chord progression, plus power chords and rests are used to play Greenday's Brainstew

Lesson 5 - key signatures and relative major and minor, G Major Scale in open, E minor scale in open, 4 chord progression with G Em C Am and a new strum pattern

Lesson 6 - learn D, Dsus4 and Asus4 chords and use them to play Tom Petty's Free Falling, D major scale in 2nd, The Tie, verse of Greenday's Blvd. of Broken Dreams using Em G D and A chords, D major arpeggio in 2nd position

Lesson 7 - review power chords and rests and learn to play the Megadeth Symphony of Destruction riff, 2 octave C major scale and shifting positions, get started with scale patterns, new strum pattern, plus learn a Cadd2 (also known as Cadd9) chord and a new way to play an open G, then use those chords plus review your D chord and get started on Greenday's Time of Your Life

Lesson 8 - A and E chord, A blues scale in 5th position, 5th position C major / A minor scales, simple blues riff and basic 12 bar blues, more power chord review to learn the chorus of Greenday's Blvd of Broken Dreams

Lesson 9 - Blink 182 Connecting 2nd & 5th Pentatonic boxes, I V vi iv chord progression, Greenday Time of Your Life arpeggio pick pattern

Lesson 10 - F major scale in 1st, 5th and 7th position, inversions of F major triad on strings 2 3 4, G moveable arpeggio, open G power chord, slash chords and the main riff from Collective Soul's December, Tegan and Sara's Call it Off, RHCP Californication

Lesson 11 - 2nd position A major scale, circle of 5th, diatonic triads in the key of F major on strings 2 3 4, new fingerpick pattern, Dm chord and inversions on strings 1 2 3, another slash chord and tripfuse In This Mess Again, sixteenth notes, White Zombie riff

Key of E and C# minor,

Lesson 12 - E major and E minor scales 9th position, mixolydian and dorian modes, inversions of G triad on strings 2 3 4 and sweep picking, Nirvana Come As You Are and Teen Spirit, diatonic 7th chords in C and F major, octave signs

Lesson 13 - D major/B Minor scale in 2nd & 4th (both full scale and pentatonic), Dmajor7th arpeggio in 2nd, more fun with power chords and rests with Veruca Salt Volcano Girl, new strum pattern and easy chords with Oasis Wonderwall, improvising with a one chord jam using Dmajor 7th and connecting 4th and 7th position D/Bm forms

Lesson 14 - bar chords, Led Zepplin Bar chord str 2 3 4 5, A major scale 2nd, E mixolydian 9th

Lesson 15 - phrasing, Lynyrd Skynyrd Hammer on and Pull off

Lesson 16 - time signatures, Pink Floyd B minor chord and B minor arpeggio in 2nd, B minor/D major scale

Lesson 17 - Joe Satriani low string exercise, 7th position C scale

Lesson 18 - G major scale in 2nd, I VI IV V chord prog key of G, Inversions of G triad (str 2 3 4)

Lesson 19 - Eric Clapton Crossroads, 12 bar blues, A blues scale in 7th, connecting pent boxes.

Lesson 20 - Lit My Own Worst Enemy, octaves