Jack's E-Book on how to play guitar within a few months

E-Book: Learn to play Guitar Within 2 Months; Section One covers how to play all the chords in the Key of G,

Section Two covers 7th chords and how to make acoustic covers of popular songs, this can be applied to any song you know if you’re willing to put in enough time and practise. This is great for Open Mic Performances.Section 3 covers how to create different inversions of each chord to play over any backing, As well as links to pentatonic scale and how it can be used for lead guitar

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A good way to express yourself is to make music, it is something we all listen to and I believe as musician myself that we all hold some kind of desire to create music, I myself cannot image a life without picking up an instrument ever.

You may have tried to learn other instruments in the past and either been successful or unsuccessful, although it helps if you have some background in music already when it comes to learning guitar it isn’t absolutely necessary as this e-book is aimed at beginners. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Introduction To The E-Book- How to play all the chords in the Key of G major within a month Play your own personal Acoustic interpretation of any song you know and wish to learn in G

What I plan to show you is how to structure your practice time. Only perfect practice makes perfect, if you practise in the wrong ways you won’t get any improvement so it is important to always make your practise goal orientated. One quality that all good guitarists share is that at any given moment they can think of an area of their playing that needs improvement and implement a strategy to overcome each hurdle on their musical journey.

The main thing is to make sure you ALWAYS learn new things. Every week you only need to learn very little and over time it will mount up and become a wealth of knowledge. You don’t need to learn everything straight away, it takes a lot of time but it’s meant to be fun and as long as you don’t stress yourself out pushing yourself too hard over technique for the sake of technique you’ll have loads of fun and you’ll never want to put the instrument down.

To master the guitar tens of thousands of hours, many will never reach the status of virtuoso that people like Jimmy Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, and Steve Vai. This E-book will not make you a master but it will take you from knowing no chords on the guitar to knowing all the chords in the Key of G, these are the Folk chords which are played at the open position near where the tuning pegs are, there are other ways to play these chords up the neck called inversions that will be covered in a later instalment of my E-Book Series.

Say it takes 10,000 hours to get there, give or take 4000 hours due to variation between players. If you practise 1 hour a day, 365 days a year it would take you 27.3ish years to master.Many of the greatest players played 8+ hours a day often falling asleep with the guitar in their hands, Jimmy Hendrix could play the guitar with both hands although he took preference to playing a right handed guitar held in a left handed position.

Complete each task and tick it off as you go through. Remember to apply everything you learn musically, there is no point in learning technique for techniques sake. We learn how to do things so we can use them effortlessly when play.



Week 1-2: LEARNING CHORDS IN THE KEY OF G

I recommend when you start to practise at least 10 minutes every day or every second day, it is best to slowly work your way up as you will be using muscles your body has never had to use so precisely before and there will be some brain freeze due to both hands doing such different movements. If at the end of the 10 minutes you think “well I’ve only just sat down, do I really have to stop now?” then don’t stop and keep on going, if you start to find your attention drifting or you begin to get frustrated you should take a break and come back to it, a relaxed mind and hand is best for playing well, It takes a lot of time and you WILL make mistakes. Trying to do big long 2 hour practise sessions learning song well out of your playing ability with bad timing and out of tune strings out of tab books is a good way to be quickly put off learning guitar, it’s called playing guitar not working guitar, that’s because it’s not work, it’s fun and it’s about having fun. The best way to practise for me is to not set a time frame to your practises, just try to make them as daily as possible as each day adds more rust you must chisel off before you can again improve, this is more noticeable after a year or so when you plateau having learnt so much and it being hard to maintain it all. If you don’t push yourself to hard and keep it fun you’ll end up losing track of time and spending loads of time with your instrument.

Try to choose songs that are within your ability level, choose songs to improve a certain technique, don’t learn technique for the sake of technique because if you apply it and use it you’ll lose it..

.e.g. Jesus of Suburbia – Greenday | would be very helpful for any guitarists trying to learn how to use power chords, it would be an ideal song to push a beginner guitarists memory for playing a song due to it’s length, if you look at the tab below on Ultimate Guitar.com you will see how it has only a few chords, C#5, A#5, F#5, G#5.(8https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/g/green_day/jesus_of_suburbia_ver6_tab.htm)Power chords are dyads of a root and its 5th, chords without the major or minor third that makes them regular chords.They are therefore not sad or happy and give greater musical freedom to other instruments to move between minor and major keys. Due to the heavy repetition of musical idea’s the entire 15 minute long song doesn’t have as much in to learn it as it seems and to learn it might help the self-esteem of any aspiring guitarist to the next level.

Remember the master has tried and failed more times than you have even tried, that’s why he’s the master.

Some people dive straight into their favourite Metallica song and practise the tab over and over again until they can play it, this is a good way of learning a song and can be quite effective depending on your goals. Although learning something via tab will help you replicate the sound of a band you like it will also hinder you by stopping the natural development of your musical ear by over relying on tabs rather than listening and Complete each task and tick it off as you go through. Remember to apply everything you learn musically, there is no point in learning technique for techniques sake. We learn how to do things so we can use them effortlessly when play.



transposing. I however do not discourage tabs but I recommend them to be used alongside other forms of practising also.

When playing from tab guitar players can sound choppier and less fluid than when they have learned a song by ear although this can be fixed with enough practise (but it can only be fixed by using the ear)

We have a different goal as Readers of This E-Book than the dude learning out of the Metallica Tab Book, we want to learn how to:a.) Play enough chords to play a songb.) Apply these chords to some songs we knowc.) Learn how to improvise with these chordsd.) Learn how to compose our own songs with these chords

The reason we aren’t going to try to learn all the chords straight away is because not all chords are in the same key. This means if we tried to put them all in one song it would sound terrible so we might as well only learn the ones that sound good together at first, then we literally can’t go wrong when swapping between them, this makes it easier to improvise and make your own songs!

Once we learn one key we can transpose songs that are in other keys to the key we know. Rather than learn a song note for note on in an electric guitar style we will try to use these chords to make an Acoustic chord’s cover of a song.

Chords are groups of 3 notes, the notes of the Chromatic scale are: A, A#/Bb, C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, G#-Ab - (A# and Bb are the same note just from different reference points.)

Chords are made of triads, groups of 3 notes.Scales are a groups of notes too but they are bigger than chords because chords are made out of scales. You get loads of different kinds of scales creating all kinds of exotic sounds.

Week 1: Learning Basic Chords and Music Theory of Scales




Week 1 goals: By the end of this week we should know 2 major chords and 2 minor chords in the Key of G major. This is only 1 chord every 2 days (: only worry one day at a time and don’t focus on how long it takes to become the best, that’s not what it’s about, it’s about having as much fun as you can, if you want to try to make a song straight away with 2 chords you do it! Should understand how to hold guitar and the guitar pick.

Week 2 goals: We should know 1 more minor chord and the diminished chord and have practised strumming through the chord. This is a new movement and it takes years to master good percussive strumming technique but if you keep practising it will all come together, focus on things like timing in 4/4 (1, 2, 3, 4) then try playing on the offbeat too, so (1,and,2,and,3,and,4,and), then try missing some numbers or ands out, just whatever beat you’re playing try to loop it over so it creates a nice repetitive beat, repetition is very important to music.

Chords for week 1: Day 1: Happy Chords : G, C, D || Day 2: Sad Chords : Em, Am, Bm || Day3:F#Dim

G Major:

A Minor: Only play the bottom 5 strings for Am as the E is not a part of this chord

B Minor: Only play this on the last 5 strings




C Major: Only on last 5 strings.

~Week 2~ : Learn Bm and F#Dim and learn to strum and improvise through chords. D Major:




E Minor:

F#Dim:F#Dim (xxx212) ( not used very much ) (similar to d7 but functions as G’s 7th)

___________________________________________________________________________________Task: Make a chord progression out of all major chords and play it, focus on timing. Eg. G C DDo the same with minor chords. Eg. Am - Emnow try to mix them together. G – D – Am – C (The chords to Knockin’ on Heaven’s door) [ ]

Record yourself over a metronome, start slow at 60bpm then speed up. Focus on how to improve your strumming and timing while doing this. Use progressively faster metronome speeds until timing becomes second nature, try different strumming styles and techniques with the metronome. Alternate between picking the bass notes of a chord and strumming the chords. Try to use things like changes in volume and strumming the highest few strings to accent and bring brightness into certain parts of a song as a cymbal is used, just learn different ways of doing it so you can variate and choose what you want at the time because If you only know one strum pattern or way to think about music it will all start to sound samey, you need to constantly diversify your sound and explore, try to express emotions as sounds such as happy, sad, spooky, atmospheric, tense, aggressive, chilled out, etc. Eg all major progression sounds happy, minor one sounds really tense and the mix of both sounds like normal rock music.__________________________________________________________________________________________




G Major Cheat Sheet – All Chords and some 7th Variations in G Major – Basic Explanation of 7th Chord Structure – How 7th Chords can link two chords within the 7th Arpeggio

Overview of G major:

Chords of G Major: Lends itself to classic rock, also to some country but less so than C major which is very popular in country music.

G major, A minor, B minor (x24432), C major, D major, E minor, F#Dim (xxx212)

Gmaj7 (32ooo2), Amin7 (oo2o1o), Bmin7 (x24232), Cmaj7 (x32ooo), Dmaj7(xoo212), Emin7 (o2oooo), F#Dim7 (xx1212)~ G -- C-D -- G Em - C Am - C

DMaj7 is best because it is G's 5th making the added C a great passing tone to G major. Avoid F#Dim

For A Minor you can use Amin7 or Amin6, Amin11 as long as it’s in the Am family - use to construct melody

G harmonic minor scale notes: G A Bb C D Eb F#

E harmonic minor scale: E F# G A B C D# E - can’t be used on major or maj7 chords

E minor scale: E F# G A B C D E

E melodic minor scale: E F# G A B C# D# E

Major Major: Smooth, sighing, hint of tension eg. Gmaj7

Major Minor (Dominant): Very tense, wants to move eg. G7

Minor Minor: Smooth, hint of happiness eg. Amin7

Minor Major: Jarring, tense, unsure eg. Amin/maj7

Two chords making a larger song. eg. Cmaj7 = C + E + G + B

C = C + E + G, Em = E + G + B --- Gmaj7 = G, B, D, F#

= Bm = B, D, F#

Task: Make a song using 7th’s to link their parent chords, C – Cmaj7 – Em – G – Gmaj7 – Bm

Just Below we have some Chord progressions using these chords to play some popular songs. To strum along we will try to emulate the rhythm of the song with combinations of up and down strums, on Complete each task and tick it off as you go through. Remember to apply everything you learn musically, there is no point in learning technique for techniques sake. We learn how to do things so we can use them effortlessly when play.



the 1,2,3,4 try to use a down strum and try to use up ones on the and’s in-between so that we accent the beats. I have left the chords in intervals so that you can transpose songs from other keys to G

Week 3: Improving our speed at swapping between chords and using them to cover a song.At first it will take a long time to get your fingers to move to the right place, eventually after enough days of repetition muscle memory will kick in and soon enough you won’t even need to look when changing chords. When you get to the point you don’t need to focus to play the guitar you could consider adding in vocals, this is much harder than I first assumed when I first tried to play and sing, I still have never mastered it.

There is a list of about a few different chord progressions and a few different songs for each below.Task: Learn 2 songs with for each chord progression/ Try to replicate how the strumming should sound. / If it’s out of time try to just strum on the 1, not 2, 3,4 and just swap between the chords over it until you feel more confident. Metronome practise is very important as timing is one of the most important aspects of musicianship. Save yourself so much hassle and just buy a metronome now and practise with it from the start, it’s so often you get musicians in the studio who can’t record their track properly and get frustrated all because they have never needed to play to a click before.

Although these songs won’t be being played as direct covers of the original version it will be your artistic interpretation of these songs and that is in ways more impressive than just copying what someone else did. You should be proud.

SONGS TO LEARN BELOW: CHORD PROGRESSIONS SHOWN IN INTERVALS

INTERVALS OF G MAJOR – EVERY CHORD IN G MAJOR – Each interval is equal to a note, these are relative to which key the song is in, for example in G major the first interval is G, in C it will be C and so on. I know you guys will hate theory but a bit of basic theory makes it so much easier to play about with things later on and make a song, it’s not boring when you look at it as just a set of sounds that sound good together, always remember to focus on the sounds, even though as guitarists we tend to think in boxes and shapes we need to remember our audience doesn’t hear those shapes they just hear the sounds we make (:

I = G Major, ii = A minor, iii = B minor, IV = C Major, V = D Major, vi = E minor and vii = F#dim.Interval key, use to transpose. – TRY: randomly play these chords after each other in 4/4 time, they will always sound good but some orders create stronger chord progressions than others, play some for 4 beats and two chords over 4 beats to mix it up. eg. G G G G C C D D ~

Strong and weak chord progressions are important for song writing. We need stronger chord progressions for bigger changes and to make a hook. Apparently G-Em is not a strong change in chords due to it sharing the same notes, yet it does have a strong effect on major and minor, its strong in its own right but the point is that these sounds are different, the more you learn to differentiate sounds and create the sounds you wish to the better your writing will get, it will rarely get worse, just keep using your ears and look for what sounds good to you, if you keep practising and writing songs you will eventually have someone impressed with something you’ve created. They might even look at you in a different way after you sang your song or played your solo, hopefully in a good way.

( Of course when creating you will also meet a few haters, people who are so depressed in themselves they




have given in on creating so nobody can ridicule what they do so they can just mock other people’s art and happily know to themselves if they tried to write a song they would be the best most sensitive song writer ever because they are beyond reproach. )

G Major’s relative minor is E natural minor They have the same notes in their pentatonic scales, G Major Pentatonic scale = G B D E F#E Minor Pentatonic scale = E F# G B D One is a happy chord but the other is sad. Em is a strong chord on guitar due to having the most open strings open possible

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Progression: I – VIn the key of G that is = G DIn the key of C that is = C G

Song examples: Jambalaya – Hank Williams, Dance the night away – The Mavericks

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Progression: I – IV – VIn the key of G that is = G C DIn the key of C that is = C F G

Song examples: La Bamba – Ritchie Valens, Twist and shout – The Beatles

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Progression: I – IV – I – VIn the key of G that is = G C G DIn the key of C that is = C F C G

Song examples: Free Fallin’ – Tom Petty, Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison

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Progression: I – vi – IV – VIn the key of G that is = G Em C DIn the key of C that is = C Am F G

Song examples: Stand by me – Ben E King, Every breath you take – Sting, Love hurts – Everly Brothers

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Progression: I – V – vi – IVKey of G = G D Em CKey of C = C G Am F

Song examples: You’re beautiful – James Blunt, I’m yours – Jason Mraz, With or without you – U2

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Progression: vi – IV – I – VKey of G = Em C G DKey of C = Am F C G

Song examples: The other side – RHCP, Zombie – The Cranberries, One of us – Joan Osbourne




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& Now, 7th Chords! Congratulations on learning the Chords of G Major!

I bet you thought that would take much longer than it did!How to add a bit of colour to the chords of G major!

7th chords, 2 chords superimposed on top of each other or a chord with its 7th added.As mentioned in the G Major Overview There are different kinds, it can be two majors, a major and a minor or two minors.“Major Major: Smooth, sighing, hint of tension eg. Gmaj7 = G, B, D, F#

Major Minor (Dominant): Very tense, wants to move eg. G7 = G, B, D, F

Minor Minor: Smooth, hint of happiness eg. Amin7 = A C E G

Minor Major: Jarring, tense, unsure eg. Amin/maj7 = A C E G#

Two chords making a larger song. eg. Cmaj7 = C + E + G + B

C = C + E + G, Em = E + G + B --- Gmaj7 = G, B,D,F#= Bm = B, D, F# - Gmaj7’s last 3 notes are the Bm Triad this means a Bm chord will always play over a Gmaj7 well, or a Bm pentatonic scale, or a Em one, There is so many different ways to mix and match. We will look at how to learn the pentatonic scale and the Major scale soon after 7th Chord diagrams.

This is also explained in the G Major Overview Cheat Sheet.




Week 3-4: Learn all these 7th Chords

Gmaj7 3x443x0

Try to come up with some Chord progressions that use these chords as they can add some flavour into a song you compose. Try using and researching different kinds of 7th chords such as dominant 7ths, major 7ths and minor 7ths.

When making a chord progression with them try to remember 7th chords are like two chords stuck together, they are excellent for going between the two chords that are merged as they are good halfway points. Eg, G – Gmaj7 – Bm C – Cmaj7 (C,E,G,B) – Em (E,G,B




G – Gmaj7 – BmC – Cmaj7 – Em

This is an interesting chord progression and its quite strong as each chord leads to the next.

Week 5. FINGER PICKING/Travis Picking + Working on strumming – Time to implement basic metronome practise in all exercises.Now we have learned some basic strumming and how to use it over some basic songs we should try to add in some string picking as well, it is important to try without using a pick at some point also, many people prefer it and you can develop the ability to finger pick chords by playing each string individually in different combinations, say if the last 5 strings were the numbers 5, 4. 3. 2. 1 from deep to high string

the beat goes : 1 2 3 4 – 1 2 3 4 - 1 2 3 4 -- 1 2 3 4use thumb to play bass note on 6th string T T T T T T T T(thickest string) for G chord and Em I3 I3 I3 I3 Use thumb to play 5th string for C and Am I2 I2Use thumb to play 4th string for D~ I1 I4

Just remember timing 1,2,3,4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4, try to use drumming as an inspiration, bass notes and treble notes, the last three strings being like a cymbals and the middle being the rhythm and the bass notes being the bass.

T= thumb I =IndexSo playing 6, 2, 6, 3, 6, 2, 6, 1 over and over on Gor playing 5, 2, 6, 4, 5, 2, 5, 1 for C, the same with the 4th string for D You need to change the bass note for this because the low E isn’t used for C and the A isn’t for D.You can use C with a G bass note like (332010)

Task: come up with 5 different picking patterns for a song.Maybe learn a picking song like time of your life - greenday

1234~ 1314~ 103204 etc.

Guitar Tuning. Ed Ate Dynamite GoodBye Ed – A mnemonic to remember the name of each string.String 1 = E low eString 2 = AString 3 = DString 4 = GString 5 = BString 6 = E High E




Guitar +Music Exercises and challenges to test out:

Create a riff based song.Make it based around a key, 120 bpm, In the key of G.Use single notes or use double stops or a mix of the two. Break it up with a bit of finger picking a chord progression, then go back into a few bars of the riff.

Create a song on FL studio with just keyboards and drums and add a solo on to it.Since creating a song from scratch into a blank studio multitrack recorder can be daunting get acquainted with setting up the synth of a track before-hand alongside some temporary drums before being swapped out when the final drums are put into the mix. Chord Progression: Dm-Bb-C-Dm (In key of Dm) - Chords of Dm are shown below alongside the chords of a few other commonly used keys

Create a backing track to just try out a few different ideas on.Progression: I – IV – V Use these progressions, Make one’s in C major, D major, G major, E minor,Key of G = G – C – D C# minor, Bb major etc.

Progression: I – IV – I – VKey of G: G – C – G - D

Progression: I – vi – IV – VKey of G: G – Em – C - D

Make a reggae track, a metal ballad track, a country track, a rock trackeg. Reggae track would have trademark off-beat rhythm, played on the “and” of 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. It could have bongos rather than regular drums.

Bob Marley - Woman No Cry C Major – G Major – A Minor – F major – C Major – G Major C Major – G Major This goes through the intro verse chorus and bridge.

One long interesting chord progression with interesting percussive offbeat rhythm, Perhaps bongo’s or Transport to FL Studio for house remixing.

Eg. A metal ballad would use a harmonic or melodic minor scale to add in accidentals to the pentatonic scale. Maybe the drums would use a double bass pedal to mix with some chugging Tasteful use of speed, Metal techniques such as tapping, pinch harmonics, mute root note. slides, pedal tones ( one note that’s common to each chord ) Write in minor

Eg. A rock song may use the basic pentatonic scale for a powerful chord tone orientated solo.A rock song may play a E minor Pentatonic over a G5 power chord.Eg. A country song may be in C or G because this popular in the genre and will use a lot of hammer on and pull




offs alongside some impressive bass runs or melody runs incorporated into some finger picking ala Johnny CashEg. A Blues song may use 12 bar blues, G (4) C (2) G (2) D (1) C (1) G (1) D (1) or it may use a riff that uses the blues scale. The blue note is important to blues. Would often use Dominant 7th chords and would play some bass with spare strings In a bluesy pattern (TRY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT DIRTY BLUES AND HOW TO PLAY IT)

MAIN TASK:*Try to make a 1 minute song of each genre: Metal Ballad, Reggae, Rock, Country and Blues**Make a riff based song, try over G – C – D**Make a song based on call and response between different instruments, eg Bass and Guitar.Vocals and Guitar (Blues or Country)**Make a copy of wilf song*

Set a Metronome and create 5 different guitar runs and notate them. Do it on 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, until 180. 1. Try going up and down from bottom to top2. Go from top to bottom3. Try it with all hammer on, then all hammer offs.4. Try a guitar run that harmonizes itself5. Try making a bass guitar accent every 4th note or every 4th then 3rd and 4th to get more complex rhythms.

Set a metronome and create 5 different strum patterns.1. Up down updownity updown 2. Down pause down down. (Add in silences too)3. Layer in some slaps and bangs 4. Create a backing track of a known song eg. Let her go. With acoustic guitar.

Try to harmonize some lead over backing track - keep it simple follow chord tones eg. D minor = D F A and B flat major = Bb F D play D (4), F(2), A(2) over F, A, D etc. Same pattern for both F, D, BbTry to harmonize vocals on backing track, keep them short like bumper sticker - life’s a bitch but keep on truckin’ (Dave Grohl quote)

Learn to connect drums via Midi mapping to FL studio

Inversions of Chords:




The CAGED theory shows 5 movable Major Chords for Arpeggios and Rhythm.




eg. C D D# E F Gx87565 – C shape G

x8(10)(10)(10)8 A Shape G

fret 3 - 5 5 - 8 fret 7-10 fret 10 - 12 12 fret – 15th I v 2 iv G – D – Am - CD shaped G – 5th Fret x87565 Am 577555 – 5th fretxx O O ~ O 5th O OOO O OO A Shape D – 5th fret G Shape C –x765557 3rd fretxOO O OOO O OOO O O

ALL CHORDS CAN BE MOVED UP AND DOWN THE NECK, eg. The E shape G chord on 3rd fret.Complete each task and tick it off as you go through. Remember to apply everything you learn musically, there is no point in learning technique for techniques sake. We learn how to do things so we can use them effortlessly when play.



------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------C shape up neck 0 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 - 12 C – C# - D – D# - E - F – F# - G – G# - A - A# - B - C------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A shape up neck 0 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 - 12 A – A# - B - C – C# - D – D# - E - F – F# - G – G# - A------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------G shape up neck 0 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 - 12 G – G# - A – A# - B - C – C# - D - D# - E - F – F# - G------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E shape up neck 0 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 - 12 E - F – F# - G – G# - A – A# - B - C – C# - D – D# - E

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------D shape up neck 0 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 - 12 D - D# - E - F – F# - G – G# - A – A# - B - C – C# - D – -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Also Em shape 0 – 1 – 2 – 3 - 4 - 5 – 6 - 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 - 12 Em - Fm – F#m - Gm – G#m - Am – A#m - Bm - Cm – C#m – Dm – D#m – Em---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------And Am shape 0 – 1 – 2 – 3 - 4 - 5 – 6 - 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 - 12 Am – A#m - Bm - Cm – C#m – Dm – D#m – Em - Fm – F#m - Gm – G#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------G shape G Open, D shape D Open, Am shape Am Open, C shape C Open a.k.a G-D-Am-C

D Shape G on 5th fret, is G A shape D on 5th fret Is DEm shape Am on 5th fret is Am G shape C on 5th fret is C

Task: Play through; G – D – Am- C x 2 (first voicings)G – D – Am – C x 3 (5th fret) ( D – A – Em – G )G (7th fret) : C shape – D(5th fret): A shape – Am(5th fret): Em shape - C(7th fret):G shape -I’m not sure how the last bit will sound but it’s just to give an example different voicings can be used to add more interest to a chord progression, different instrument can use different voicings of a chord and fill in different parts of the mix. Too much different stuff at once will mud up the mix.

to mix it up swap the 5th fret D shape G to a 7th fret C shape Gto mix it up swap the 5th fret G shape C to a C shape G 7th fret

a.k.a G-D-Am-C

Task: Look at the progressions we looked at earlier such as i – iv – v




Progression: I – VIn the key of G that is = G DIn the key of C that is = C G

Song examples: Jambalaya – Hank Williams, Dance the night away – The Mavericks

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Progression: I – IV – VKey of G = G – C - D

Progression: I – IV – I – VKey of G: G – C – G - D

Progression: I – vi – IV – VKey of G: G – Em – C - D

Progression: I – V – vi – IV Key of G = G - D - Em - C

Progression: vi – IV – I – VKey of G = Em – C – G – D

Try and create some different voicings of these Progressions.

Fill them in below

0 =G 2= A 5=C 7=D 9=E 10=F 12=G

Major 7th R357 - 1

0 = D 2 = E 3 = F 5 = G 7 = A


Barre chords crossing between Em, Am, A and E shapes.

With muted stings | 2nd fret = A , C on 5th D on 7th



Create some chords with some open strings - Exotic chords

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/all_time_low/remembering_sunday_ver4_crd.htm

SO first exotic chord I found is x75080 C/G# (:

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Remembering Sunday – All Time LowUses lovely chords including some open string chords

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Scales for Soloing!

These are the same as the G Major Pentatonic scale, the functions of the intervals are just changed.




Good Jam Tracks for Practising ScalesRemember to play slow, you can play literally anything no matter how hard it is if you slow it down enough, make sure not too rush. Only think about the note you are playing and how and where you are going to play the next one and get in-between the both, if you don’t focus on the moment at hand you will not play a note in the correct way. Eg. Perfect vibrato.

Backing track – Epic Metal Ballad – Emhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-PP4mygOlc

Classic Metal – Chug Chug Chug – Chug Chug DUNNN DUNNNhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYMvO4RtnnQI don’t yet know how to solo over this style so I should learn

Hard Rock Backing Track Am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDOFo7Fux6scome up with a solo, not Ballady

C minor Metal Ballad Track – Picking intro and Synth, Epic soundscapehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M0njWKFsMEPower Ballad – Make It soulfulDownloaded to put on Multitrack Recorder – Documents – CMinorMetalBalladBackingTrackTask: First try out some basic harmonising lead at the start of the track Record 3 solo’s over backing track. One completely improvised as January copy Record one that I plan before playing, Add in things like harmony Record a final solo in a few months’ time to see how things have changed.

When practising through scales make sure you have learnt all you need to from the first scale before moving on to another, I mainly use the Pentatonic scale when soloing, You should learn the notes of each fret on the guitar and which intervals these are relative to the key you are playing in.

If we are playing in G the Pentatonic scale is G, A, B, C, D, E, F#. The chord tones are G, B and D, The rest are passing tones.

If we are playing in Em the Pentatonic scale is E, F#, G, A, B, C, D.The chord tones are E, G and B, the rest are passing tones

Chord tones are the three notes that make up a chordPassing tones are used to add tension which is later diffused by returning back to a chord tone. Music is the art of building and releasing tension and creating emotions from soundscape.Complete each task and tick it off as you go through. Remember to apply everything you learn musically, there is no point in learning technique for techniques sake. We learn how to do things so we can use them effortlessly when play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M0njWKFsME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDOFo7Fux6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYMvO4RtnnQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-PP4mygOlc



How to make my solo’s sound like the pros? Introduction to following chord tones

When soloing you should start with a chord tone for the key/chord you are playing in eg. GBD for G, then if we move to a C chord we should try to land on a C, E or a G, when moving between chords it helps to try and land on a pedal note, that is a note that two chords share in common that plays over both of them. In the example of G – C a pedal note between the two would be G because G is the 1st Interval of G major and the 5th of C.

This means if we solo over G – D – Am – C^ = bend up 2 semitones , r = release bend, /slide, ~ = vibratoE------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-12-- 10 ---------------------------------B—9—8----8h9p8-------I 10^12r10—8 -----------------|-------------8—10—12/10/12-|----12—10- 10^12r8 ---8-88~G--------------------------9--I----------------------9—-7-9--------------------------|--------------------------------9---9------D-----------------------------|-------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------A------------------------------|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------e------------------------------|------------------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------

Starts on a B – During G Major Chords (GBD) --- Goes into a D when D major starts playing and so on.

I’ve not tried this out but I just made a quick solo, Try to start a lick beginning with G. B or D for G major, when it changes to D try to use a D because they both share this pedal note. When it changes to Am play an A because D and A share this pedal note. Am and C are the relative minor of each other, you can play the same notes over them.

In the key of G over a G major chord you want to play a lick starting with G, B or D and that finishes on one of these notes to resolve the lead line. Chord tones are how a lead guitarist plays the chords, because the rhythm guitarist and lead guitarists are communicating using the same key, scale and chord tones it will sound good.

You might choose to use G major pentatonic for the G and the D and a C major Pentatonic for the Am and C.You might want to use just G major pentatonic for it all and let your ear guide you, remember all of the Pentatonic scale fits.

You could also use harmonic scales or melodic scales as I have used above

These notes are as followsG-F#-G-F# E, | D, E, G, A B-A-B | E D, B, A A^BrA | E G E G G

Squeezing an A into a B for G major as it’s a chord tone, starting passages on chord tones and using passing tones to add interest as these aren’t already included in the chords eg. A.

When it changes to D major we play a D chord tone etc.

B—9—8----8h9p8 is a good little lick to start a run on.




When practising scales you should practise:

Playing horizontally, and Vertically separately.

As you can see the intervals of a scale go up one by one as you go from the low e, up vertically one interval then cross a string horizontally and do the same, In the first position of Am Pentatonic which is on 5th fret it goes 1, b3, 4, 5, b7, 1,b3, 4, 5, b7, 1, b3. Each position starts with a different root number, these root’s are the same as the bass notes for Barre chords using the E or Em shape or the A or Am shape.

You can practise playing up and down one string in different ways but it’s also important to play horizontally, make sure to remember to sometimes skip a string/note in-between some notes to make sure you end up with a melody and not just endless scale runs up and down the scale.

Try to add in DynamicsBends are when you bend a string to make a note rise in pitch, normally to a chord tone. During a bend you can add vibrato, you can release a bend back to neutral or let it go squeezed.Try slow bends and fast repetitive bends to find different sounds, keep picking the string as you bend it rhythmically etc.

A slide is a good way to liven up your performance, there are several kinds of slurs you can make to blur each note into each other. When you play staccato you tend to play short separate notes, a slide is often used for the exact opposite for a style of playing called legato which heavily relies on hammer-on, pull offs and slides.Again try a slow and fast slide, try using it for last notes, try sliding from a note to a note that harmonizes with it eg G-C-D – Try sliding out of a phrase to create a descending sound then sliding back into the same note or next lick

Try a Hammer-on for each second note on an ascending scale runTry a Pull-off for each second note on an ascending scale runTry a Hammer-on for each second note on an descending scale runTry a Pull-off for each second note on an descending scale runTask: Record these at 60bpm, 80bpm, 100bpm, 120bpm, 140bpm – 200bpm

Find Double stop’s and Double stop riffs, to beef up single note lead runs, makes it sound more rock and roll, use your ears, epic riffage.




G Major chord tones on each string: G B DE- G-3 B-7 D- 10B- B-0 D-3 G-7G- G-0 B-4 D-7D- D-0 G-5 B- 9A- B-2 D-5 G-10E- G-3 B-7 D-10 You should memorise these chords, they are the same chord shapes as we learnt in CAGED for different chord voicings and inversions. These are key to learning Lead Guitar.

Tapping is a good technique to improve your lead guitar, you tap with one hand on a chord tone on a string and use the left hand to do a pull of or hammer on between two chord tones, and this will create a tapping pattern as a series of 3’s. Task: make this follow a chord pattern. G = G D B || D= D F# A || use g and d string. Record for several bars.

Pick slides are another technique often used in Rock and Metal music, scraping the pick up the neck off the guitar across the thick bass strings to create a scratching sound.

Palm Muting is a technique heavily used in the rhythm and lead guitar featured in most Rock and Metal music. For example Slash’s use of it in Welcome to the Jungle, He uses it heavily to create a chunky percussive lead sound and to create his riffs.

Arpeggios are broken up chords, a finger picking pattern is an Arpeggio of a chord. You can find arpeggios in the CAGED system or make one out of any chord, they are made out of chord tones so they will always sound good played over a chord as they are saying the same thing. Task: Play an Arpeggio over G-C-D

Pinch Harmonics are a rock guitar technique where you hit a string twice once with a pick, but then slightly pinch the skin of your thumb on the string and pull it away fast enough so that the pick plays the note and the thumb stops some of the overtones of the note from playing leaving us with a high pitched squealier/pitch harmonic, these require a lot of skill and technique. You need to pick the note a specific distance away from the note to get it to ring out clearly and be heard, you will also need to apply a lot of vibrato. This is a hard technique for beginners to pick up and is quite advanced.

Regular Harmonics are when you play a note such as the 5th fret of most strings on standard tuning, most 7th notes, 4th note, 12th note. You touch the note without pressing it, you pluck the string and release at the same time, this causes a harmonic to ring out.

Tap Harmonics are another kind of artificial harmonic, it is done by fretting a note/arpeggio run with the left hand then mimicking these notes with the right hand exactly 12 frets down on the octave by hitting them with my finger and then instantly releasing, a harmonic will ring out. Van Halen used a lot of these and is much of the reason the technique is so famous today.

Tremolo Picking is playing a note really quickly, it is used to quickly play blasts of notes, it sounds




almost like a guitar harp due to how much the sound is reinstated.

Whammy bar Effects / Floyd Rose

A whammy bar only can loosen the strings, it can’t tighten them up like a Floyd Rose because you need the floating design of the Floyd Rose to do that.

I plan to invest on a Jackson Guitar with a Floyd Rose Installed, Once I have invested in this I will update this section on how to do various Floyd Rose Tricks such as Dive-bombs, etc.

It will have a Tronical Tune Automatic Robot Tuning Machine Head for £200I plan to purchase a Jackson js32 warrior w Floyd Rose. £300

Links for all products below:Guitar:http://www.sweelee.com.sg/jackson-js32-warrior-w-floyd-rose-electric-guitar-w-bag-black.htmlTuning Head:http://www.gak.co.uk/en/tronical-tronicaltune-automatic-robot-tuning-machineheads-h/88996?gclid=CjwKEAiA8ee0BRD1l7vV6JHe0zISJADxYItm_J9c0-pNg-UJyifmBpSFk9a5nxP-vydreMhLiJ053BoCY7Lw_wcB


http://www.sweelee.com.sg/jackson-js32-warrior-w-floyd-rose-electric-guitar-w-bag-black.html

http://www.sweelee.com.sg/jackson-js32-warrior-w-floyd-rose-electric-guitar-w-bag-black.html



Now leaving behind the G major scale for a bit we will learn some lead guitar in a few different keys, we can always transpose these up or down to any key of our choosing later and it’s important we start doing this as it’s good practise.

Note Runs:

G minor Pentatonic (3rd fret)

Task:|----------------------------------------------------------------3---||------------------------------------------------3-----3-6---3-6-----||--------------------------------3-----3-5---3-5---3-5-----5---------||----------------3-----3-5---3-5---3-5-----5-------------------------||------3-5---3-5---3-5-----5-----------------------------------------||--3-6-----6---------------------------------------------------------|

Then try this next one once you can do first one

|------------------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------5-7------7-10----7-10-12-||----------------------3-5-----5-8---5-8-10-5-8-----8-10------10---------||------3-5---3-5-8-3-5-----5-8-----8-------------------------------------||--3-6-----6-------------------------------------------------------------|

This kind of run is pretty standard. ___________________________________________________________Task: Learn it at different tempo’s 60, 80, 100, 120 bpm etc. up to eventually 200bpmish. Complete each task and tick it off as you go through. Remember to apply everything you learn musically, there is no point in learning technique for techniques sake. We learn how to do things so we can use them effortlessly when play.



Record this perfectly at these different tempos. No timing mistakes what so ever. Try it in different keys.Task 2: Try it over a G Minor Backing such as G Minor - Bb Major. Compare results with same scale run over the minor and relative major. Then try over a Blue’s Dominant G7 progression. All produce different tonalities.___________________________________________________________

Building up on basic knowledge, learning to apply what we know into music and learning the chords from other keys.

When practising you will occasionally hit what seems like a brick wall, this is because once you have learnt the basics of various techniques and go through quick learning of a lot of things you eventually reach a point where you need to learn to apply the material you already know. An example is when you learn a scale, or the chords as you just have. You can either move on to learn more scales and chords or you can look as to how to apply what you already know to make music. There is no point learning more scales before you know how to use the ones you already have, there is however reason to start learning chords outside of the key of G, these chords are listed below..

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Task: Make a chord progression using this key.




Task: Learn to play a song in several keys. Eg. 8 Days a Week – The Beatles a step down C – D – F – C (Verse) Am-F Am-D - - G – Am – D – F – Goriginal = D – E – G – D (Verse) Bm-G Bm-E - - A – Bm – E – G – A}a step up = E – F –A – E (Verse) Cm – A – Cm – F - - B – Cm – F – A - B link: http://www.azchords.com/b/beatles-tabs-410/eightdaysaweek-tabs-100958.html link for capo 5 version: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_beatles/eight_days_a_week_ver8_crd.htm


https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_beatles/eight_days_a_week_ver8_crd.htm

http://www.azchords.com/b/beatles-tabs-410/eightdaysaweek-tabs-100958.html



Good songs to learn on Guitar:

Nightmare – Avenged Sevenfoldhttp://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/avenged_sevenfold/nightmare_ver6_tab.htmDifficulty: Hard for me, Need to learn chugging especially.

The Maine – Into Your Arms (Only Chords)https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_maine/into_your_arms_ver4_crd.htm

Carry on My Wayward Sonhttp://www.e-chords.com/chords/kansas/carry-on-my-wayward-son (chords)http://www.e-chords.com/tabs/kansas/carry-on-my-wayward-son (TABS)Fairly easy intro once practised, I just need to devote some time to it. I haven’t practised a whole song of this length yet

Time of Dying – Three Days Gracehttp://www.e-chords.com/tabs/three-days-grace/time-of-dying

Never too Late – Three Days Gracehttps://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/three_days_grace/never_too_late_ver5_tab.htmNeed to brush up on bridge and chorus, learn to swap between clean and distorted sound

Girl All The Bad Guys Want – Bowling For Souphttp://www.e-chords.com/tabs/bowling-for-soup/girl-all-the-bad-guys-wantSimple punk song with easy riff once practised a couple times, one of the easiest on the list apart from learning to accent the chugging.

Hey there Delilah https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/p/plain_white_ts/hey_there_delilah_ver6_tab.htmNeed to brush up on playing, should learn to add vocals to it as I was new to picking like this when I learnt it.

Back in Black – ACDChttp://www.e-chords.com/tabs/acdc/back-in-blackNeed to learn the rest apart from the riff

Paranoid - Black Sabbathhttp://www.e-chords.com/tabs/black-sabbath/paranoid

Pinball Wizard – The Whohttp://www.thewho.net/whotabs/tablature/pinballwizard.txtLearn it by splitting it up bit by bit.


http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/tablature/pinballwizard.txt

http://www.e-chords.com/tabs/black-sabbath/paranoid

http://www.e-chords.com/tabs/acdc/back-in-black

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/p/plain_white_ts/hey_there_delilah_ver6_tab.htm

http://www.e-chords.com/tabs/bowling-for-soup/girl-all-the-bad-guys-want

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/three_days_grace/never_too_late_ver5_tab.htm

http://www.e-chords.com/tabs/three-days-grace/time-of-dying

http://www.e-chords.com/tabs/kansas/carry-on-my-wayward-son

http://www.e-chords.com/chords/kansas/carry-on-my-wayward-son

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_maine/into_your_arms_ver4_crd.htm

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/avenged_sevenfold/nightmare_ver6_tab.htm



Inbetween – Beartooth - planning on learning nexthttp://www.e-chords.com/chords/beartooth/in-between

>More Songs

You Me At Six – Underdoghttp://www.azchords.com/y/youmeatsix-tabs-42791/underdog-tabs-534900.htmlTask: Learn Gt2 as well as Gt1.

Ed Sheeran – Don’t ( Chords )http://www.e-chords.com/chords/ed-sheeran/dont

Sunshine of Your Love – Creamhttps://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/c/cream/sunshine_of_your_love_ver7_tab.htmLearn solo next ;)

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd - Currently working onhttps://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/p/pink_floyd/comfortably_numb_solo_ver6_tab.htmLearn solo better and Task: Create an acoustic version of comfortably numb and record it, using:http://www.azchords.com/p/pinkfloyd-tabs-3040/comfortablynumb-tabs-112833.html

Jesus Of Suburbia – Greendayhttps://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/g/green_day/jesus_of_suburbia_ver6_tab.htmLearn Solo also

You’re Gonna Go Far Kid – The Offspring (One of first songs I learnt, just 4 simple power chords) http://www.e-chords.com/chords/the-offspring/youre-gonna-go-far-kidNeed to learn the parts that are different – Try to use ear to do this - Good beginner song

Time-Bomb – All Time Low (Drop D)https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/all_time_low/time_bomb_ver3_tab.htm - Great beginner song all three string bar chords just up and down the neck.

Remembering Sunday – All Time Lowhttps://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/all_time_low/remembering_sunday_ver5_crd.htm

You Really Got Me Going – The Kinkshttp://www.e-chords.com/chords/the-kinks/you-really-got-me

All Day and All Night – The Kinks https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_kinks/all_day_and_all_of_the_night_ver6_crd.htm

Wish You Were Here – Pink Floydhttps://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/p/pink_floyd/wish_you_were_here_ver3_crd.htm (Chords) http://www.e-chords.com/tabs/pink-floyd/wish-you-were-here (Intro tab + Solo Tab)


http://www.e-chords.com/tabs/pink-floyd/wish-you-were-here

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/p/pink_floyd/wish_you_were_here_ver3_crd.htm

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_kinks/all_day_and_all_of_the_night_ver6_crd.htm

http://www.e-chords.com/chords/the-kinks/you-really-got-me

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/all_time_low/remembering_sunday_ver5_crd.htm

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/all_time_low/time_bomb_ver3_tab.htm

http://www.e-chords.com/chords/the-offspring/youre-gonna-go-far-kid

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/g/green_day/jesus_of_suburbia_ver6_tab.htm

http://www.azchords.com/p/pinkfloyd-tabs-3040/comfortablynumb-tabs-112833.html

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/p/pink_floyd/comfortably_numb_solo_ver6_tab.htm

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/c/cream/sunshine_of_your_love_ver7_tab.htm

http://www.e-chords.com/chords/ed-sheeran/dont

http://www.azchords.com/y/youmeatsix-tabs-42791/underdog-tabs-534900.html

http://www.e-chords.com/chords/beartooth/in-between



Long-term GoalsSultans of Swing – Dire Straitshttps://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/d/dire_straits/sultans_of_swing_tab.htm

Sweet Child o’ Mine – Guns’n’Roses – ONE DAYY!http://www.guitarworld.com/tabs-guns-n-roses-sweet-child-o-mineTask: Learn Solohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGW_f_CU3wQ Video Lesson


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGW_f_CU3wQ

http://www.guitarworld.com/tabs-guns-n-roses-sweet-child-o-mine

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/d/dire_straits/sultans_of_swing_tab.htm