TABLE OF CONTENTS

Guitar Background

Guitar Anatomy

Stringing

Tuning

• Using an Electric Tuner

• Using a Keyboard or a Piano

• Using a Pitch Pipe

• Using a Pitch Fork

• Standard Tuning

• Half Step Down Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb

• Whole Step Down D-G-C-F-A-D

• Dropped D D-A-D-G-B-E

• Double Dropped D D-A-D-G-B-D

• Dsus4 Tuning D-A-D-G-A-D

Holding the Guitar

• Sitting

• Classical

• Casual

• Standing

Ways to Learn

• Theory Books

• Videos

• Private Lessons with a Good Teacher

• Learning by Ear

Reading Music

• Standard Music Notation

• Treble / Bass Clef

• Tablature

• Scale / Chord Charts

Technique

• Strumming

• Muting

• Bending

• Timing

Theory

Chords

• Major

• Minor

• Seventh

• Augmented

• Diminished

• Half-Diminished / Minor Seventh Flat Fifth

Other Chords

• Suspended Chords (Sus4 and Sus2 chords)

• Bar Chords

• Power Chords

• Slash Chords

Scales

• The Pentatonic Scale

• The Blues Scale

• Major Scale

• Minor Scale

• Harmonic Minor Scale

• Melodic Minor Scale

• Exotic Scales

Modes

• Ionian

• Dorian

• Phrygian

• Lydian

• Mixolydian

• Aeolian

• Locrian

Progressions

• 12 Bar Blues

• Jazz Progressions