The Total Beginning Guitarist

Song List: Riff Rock Stop-Time Improvising a Solo Improvising on the 1st and 2nd Strings A One and-a Two and-a Improvising on the 3rd and 4th Strings Song for Ewe Improvising on the 5th and 6th Strings Dotted Quarter Notes Ooh La La The Major Scale and Its Use in Improvisation C Major Scale Etude Song of Major Basic Music theory The Musical Alphabet Half and Whole Steps Enharmonic Equivalents The Musical Alphabet on the Guitar More on the Major Scale How Chords Are Built Keys I, IV, V---The Primary Chords More Power Chords Root-6 Power Chords Simple Riff Root-5 Power Chords Swamp Thing Dissatisfied Basic Lead Guitar The Minor Pentatonic Scale A Minor Pentatonic Solo Comping Turnaround-a-Roo Turnaround-a-Two More Chords and Chord Progressions The ii-V-I Progression The I-vi-ii-V Progression The iii-vi-ii-V Progression Soloing Over a 12-Bar Blues---Revisited A Minor Blues Too Fingerstyle Sunday Picnic Scarborough Fair---Melody Scarborough Fair---Fingerstyle Accompaniment Moveable Chords Barre Chords The E-Form Barres The A-Form Barres Lessons Learned READING CHORDS Intervals Chord Theory Major and Minor Triads Diminished and Augmented Triads 7 Chords Extended Chords Chord Encyclopedia Guitar Fretboard Chart Conclusion About the Authors Introduction Buying a Guitar Parts Of The Guitar HOLDING THE GUITAR Two Positions for Playing the Guitar Left-Hand Technique Right-Hand Technique Tuning the Guitar String Names and Numbers Methods of Tuning First Chords and First Songs Time Signatures, Measures, and Beats In Shallow Water The Big Switch Freddie's Bounce The C Chord and a New Rock Song Three-in-One The 12-Bar Blues 12-Bar Blues Two New Chords and Another 12-Bar Blues Another Three-Chord Tune 12-Bar Blues in A Your Next Two Chords: CMaj7 and Amin7 CMaj7-Amin7-Dmin-G7 (or, How to Play 80% of All Jazz Tunes) Soulful Heart Two New Chords: A7 and E7 Careful The New Blues Basic Rhythm and Strumming Quarter Strums Review Eighth Strums Strumming Eighths on A Nostalgia Triplets Swing Eighths Swing Blues Minor Chords and a New Strum On the Way to Heaven Combining Quarter and Eighth Strums E Minor Strum Allow It to Happen Variations on the 12-Bar Blues Country Blues The Bass-Strum Pattern Bass-Strum Blues Minor Blues A Minor Song Reading Tablature Yankee Doodle Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star I've Been Working On The Railroad An Introduction to Rock Playing Power Chords Power Chord Exercise A New 12-Bar Blues Rock Blues Rock Riffs Rock Riff 1 Rock Riff 2 Power Chords and the Blues Simple Shuffle Shufflin' A Word About Improvisation E String Jam READING STANDARD MUSIC NOTATION Pitch Rhythm in Standard Notation Notes on the 1st String Quarter Notes 1st String Exercise---No. 1 1st String Exercise---No. 2 Whole notes Whole Rests The Whole Truth ...And Nothing But Notes on the 2nd String Half Notes Quarter Rests I've Been Told I've Been Told Some More Half Rests Two-Step Shuffle Shave and a Haircut Open Hands High Lonesome Notes on the 3rd String Four, No More Rest easy Eighth Notes 3rd String Exercise Nappin' Eighth-Note Rock Notes on the 4th String Ties Along The Road Up the Road Eighth Rests Spang-Spang-a-Lang Five, Six, Seven, Eight Dotted Half notes Caveman Blues Solo Notes On The 5th String Song for Fonzie Song for Whole and Half Pickup Notes Riffin' on the 5th St. Louis Blues Accidentals Accidental Exercise 12-Tone Tune Notes on the 6th String Baby Bass Is the Place Funky