Song List:
About the Author
Introduction
Basic Notation and Theory
CHAPTER ONE: The Guitar Styles Toolbox
Lesson 1: Simplifying the Fretboard
Lesson 2: The Octave Pattern
Lesson 3: The CAGED System
Lesson 4: Simplifying the CAGED System
Lesson 5: Movable Fretboard Shapes
Lesson 6: Using Scale Degrees to Build Chords
CHAPTER TWO: Rock Guitar
Lesson 1: Palm Muting
Lesson 2: Rock Chords
Muting and Barring on the Fretboard
Lesson 3: Rock Chord Shapes
Lesson 4: Rock Chord Progressions
Voice-Leading Labyrinth
Three-String Strum
Sweet Molasses
Lesson 5: Rock Chord Embellishments
Frost
Lesson 6: Soloing in a Rock Style
CHAPTER THREE: Blues Guitar
Lesson 1: Roman Numerals
Lesson 2: The 12-Bar Blues
Basic 12-Bar Blues
The Chile's Gone
Lesson 3: The Blues Shuffle
The Troubled 8-Bar Shuffle
Stevie's Shuffle
Lesson 4: The 12/8 Blues
Cloudy Day Blues
Lesson 5: Soloing in a Blues Style
CHAPTER FOUR: Acoustic Guitar
Lesson 1: Slash Chords and the Bass/Strum
Afternoon Again
Absolutely
Lesson 2: The Quintessential Strum
Half a Strum to Play
A Twist of Lime
Lesson 3: The Muted Strum
Fret-Hand Mute
Take a Seat
Moments Like Those
Flap
Lesson 4: Tricky Strumming Simplified
Lesson 5: Acoustic Soloing
CHAPTER FIVE: Fingerstyle Guitar
Lesson 1: Pick Your Variation
Lesson 2: Fingerpicking Potential
Passenger Pigeon
Lesson 3: Travis Picking
Travis Rag
Lesson 4: Melodic Fingerpicking
Fingerpicking Paradise
CHAPTER SIX: Classical Guitar
Lesson 1: Posture and Positioning
Lesson 2: Classical Fingerpicking
Lesson 3: The Renaissance and Baroque Periods
Greensleeves
Cello Suite No. 1 (Prelude)
Minuet In G
Lesson 4: The Classical Period
Etude in A Minor
Allegro In G
Prelude in C
Lesson 5: Flamenco Guitar
Rapid Rasgueados
Flamenco Fingers Flying
CHAPTER SEVEN: Metal and Shred Guitar
Lesson 1: Metal Rhythm
Lesson 2: Tremolo Picking
Lesson 3: Drop D and Odd-Time Riffs
Lesson 4: Neo-Classical Metal
Malmsteen Madness
Lesson 5: Shredding Tricks
CHAPTER EIGHT: Reggae and Ska Guitar
Lesson 1: Reggae Chord Voicings
Lesson 2: Reggae Rhythm Chops
Lesson 3: Single-Note Syncopations
Rastafari Police
Lesson 4: Third Wave Ska
Don't Come Toasting
More Than Inspired
Dr. Bosstone
Sub-Lime
Reel Big Sale
CHAPTER NINE: Funk Guitar
Lesson 1: Single-Note Funk Lines
Funky Strut
Lesson 2: The Chicken Scratch
Feeling Funky
Lesson 3: Building Chord Extensions
Lesson 4: Funky Rhythm Guitar
Theme Park Funk
Bag of Potatoes
Funk Machine
Super Funky
CHAPTER TEN: Jazz Guitar
Lesson 1: Jazz Chord Progressions
How New the Key
Chords in the Afternoon
Some Keys You Play
Lesson 2: Soloing Over ii-V-I Progressions
Lesson 3: Jazz Blues & Walking Bass
Bop Blues Stroll
Lesson 4: Soloing Over a Jazz Blues
Bebop Blues Solo
Lesson 5: Jazz Chord Inversions
Fall Inversions
Lesson 6: Adding Color to Your Chords
Lesson 7: Latin Jazz
How Syncopated
Lesson 8: Modal Jazz
Modal Impression
Lesson 9: Modal Jazz Soloing
Tonal Modal
Lesson 10: Jazz Soloing Strategies
Maybe
Outward Inclination
Yellow Noon
Not Just Acquaintances
Conclusion
Guitar Fretboard Chart
