PARADIGM MUSIC SCHOOL
VAN NUYS, CA
ACOUSTIC GUITAR: CONTENTS
GUITAR - LEVEL 1
Parts of the Guitar
Tuning
Holding the Guitar
Left-hand and Right-hand Position
The Musical Alphabet
Picking Symbols
Counting Beats
Chord Diagrams
Major Chords
Eight Notes
Strumming
Musical Symbols
Notes on the first string
Notes on the second string
GUITAR - LEVEL 2
Minor Chords
Progressions
Dominant Seventh Chords
Basic Moves
Using a Capo
Note on the Third String
Three-String Review
3/4 Time
Notes on the Fourth String
Pickup notes
Ties
GUITAR - LEVEL 3
Notes On The Fifth String
Notes On the Sixth String
Half Steps And Whole Steps
Key Signatures
Rests
Eight Notes
Downstrokes And Upstrokes
Tablatures
Playing Notes With Tablatures
Playing Chords With Tablatures
GUITAR - LEVEL 4
The Low E String
The A String
Rhythm Tab
More Riffs
Eight Notes and Rests
C-Sharp ( C#)
More Strums & Syncopation
Barre Chords
Arpeggiated Chords
Power Chord Shapes
Power Chords with an added ninth
Major 7th Chords
Minor 7th Chords
6th Chords
Dominant 9th Chords
Blues Charts
Harmonized Major Scale
Sixteenth Notes
Suspended 4th Chords
Dominant 47sus4 Chords
Major and Minor 9th Chords
Minor 7b5 Chords
11th and 9sus4 Chords
Voicing
Inversions
Major, minor, augmented and diminished triads
Altered Chords
The ii-V-I Progression
Triplet strumming
Double stops
Single-note rhtyhm parts
Fingerpicking
Using a capo
Alternate tunings
Country
Blue Grass
Folk
Blues Slide Guitar
Acoustic Riffs
Natural, Harp and Slap Harmonics
Slap and Pop Fingerstyle Technique
Blues Soloing
Acoustic Guitar Soloing