How to Play the Guitar

Buy a Guitar

Buy an Amp?

Play an A Chord

Cowboy Chords
Power Chords
The Dreaded F Chord
Barre Chords
Major 7
Everything Else

The G Major Scale

Likcks

Mr Brownstone
Sultans’s
Cake – Survive

  1. Get a Guitar
  2. Play an A Power Chord(s)
  3. Learn Cowboy Chords (& Capo)
  4. Tackle The Dreaded F (Barr Chords)
  5. Learn The G Major Scale (There is only one Scale & 7 Notes)

Riffs vs.Progressions (TNT)
Alternative Voicings (Get Lucky)
The Modes (There is only one Scale & 7 Notes)
Pentatonic + (Brian Steeksma)
Bass How low can you go

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Could talk about … Start

  • What is music / Sound …
  • Was Music Discovered or invented [?]
  • How many notes are there

The MAJOR Scale (Do re mi fa so la ti do)

  • 12 Semi-Tones
  • 7 Notes in a Scale (or 5)
  • 1 Scale
  • 3 Notes in a Chord

It’s all just one thing …

  • G Major
  • E minor
  • Pentatonic -Rock / Pop / Blues (5 notes)

Playing Guitar A

  • The “Cowboy Chords”
  • Bar Chords
  • Power Chords

… Can Play anything.

Progressions

  • Singing > Playing – Fortunate Son
  • Complicated > Simple – Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Looping Songs

  • Good Times
  • Rapper’s Delight
  • Another One Bites the dust

Behringer – Guitar Pedals

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