Quick Start Beginners Guitar Course

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QUICK START BEGINNERSGUITAR LESSONSWith Gary Clinton

Accompanying

Book for the 10

Part video series

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Foreword by Gary Clinton

Welcome to the wonderful world of guitar! We hope you find this booklet a big help in ensuring you make fastprogress in your guitar playing skills. Check out the Guitar & Music Institute for more free lessons, as well as amassive amount of other resources for those making their way in music.

I had fun in creating the course, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it. We have included extra ma-terials within this book that were spoken about in my videos. You should also have three backing tracks tohelp with specific lessons.

All the best

Gary Clinton

BEFORE YOU START - TUNING THE GUITARWe wanted you to get right into this course and we felt that it was better to give you rock solid tuition on the are-as that mattered most to get you playing as fast as possible.

With this in mind, we did not want to go over areas that are covered well across the Internet. Before youplay your guitar, it helps if it’s in tune!

CLICK HERE TO LEARN ALL ABOUT TUNING YOUR GUITAR!


LESSON ONE - ANATOMY OF THE GUITAR

BODY

NECK HEADSTOCK

PICKUPS

BRIDGE

JACK

FRETS

FRETWIRES

MACHINEHEADS

SCRATCHPLATE

SOUNDHOLE

PICKUP VOLUME& TONE KNOBS

PICKUPSELECTOR


LESSON TWO - MAJOR CHORD SHAPES


LESSON THREE - MINOR CHORD SHAPES


LESSON FOUR - CHANGING BETWEEN CHORDS


LESSON FIVE - PLAYING RIFFS


LESSON SIX - POWER CHORDS


LESSON SEVEN - TWELVE BAR BLUES IN A


LESSON EIGHT - FINGERSTYLE MELODY

Right Hand Fingering ideas.

I showed you how to work with i, m strokes. You should also practice the following:

m, i strokes

i, a strokes

Finally, I mentioned that we would be playing “free” strokes. The other stroke is a “rest” stroke. This strokeis used to create a thicker more sonorous tone. To do it, you pluck the string then let the pull through of thefinger take your finger to rest on the next string below. A rest stroke is played with the right hand fingers ata slight angle (backwards) to the string.


LESSON NINE - FINGERSTYLE CHORDS

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LESSON TEN - INTRO TO SCALES

Believe it or not, all music is created from two main elements. Scales and arpeggios. Now, we felt that arpeggioswere beyond the scope of what we wanted to offer, however, we have provided you with a scale to work with.

As mentioned on the video, you can use the scale below (which has the same notes as the C Major scale) toexperiment and work out songs that you know as well as create songs of your own.

Experimentation really is the key here as well as having fun! So, good luck and get cracking with the scalebelow.


APPENDIX A - MORE OPEN STRING CHORDS


APPENDIX B - MORE 12 BAR BLUES VARIATIONS

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