PARADIGM MUSIC SCHOOL
VAN NUYS, CA
ELECTRIC GUITAR: CONTENTS
- Tuning the guitar.
- Connecting the guitar.
- The correct position of the guitar.
- Parts of the guitar
- Open strings.
- The notes on your fingerboard.
- Open position Chords; major, minor and 7th
- Strumming
- Rhythm Guitar
- Quarter, half and whole notes.
- Rests.
- Power Chord
- The Barre Chords.
- Sus2 and Sus4 triads.
- Seventh Chords; 7h, maj7. min7
- Dominant Chords.9, 11, 13.
- Maj6 / min 6
- Fingerstyle picking.
- The Pentatonic Scales
- Improvising with pentatonic scales.
- The minor blues scale and variations.
- Improvising over blues progresions
- The major pentatonic scales.
- Major scales and their modes.
- Triads and triads arpeggios.
- Major and minor triads
- Inversions.
- Open tunings
- Time signatures.
- Odd meter time signatures
- Shifting meter time signatures
- Major and minor 6th
- Cluster Chords.
- Harmonic and melodic minor scales
- The whole tone scales
- The diminished scale
- Vibrato
- Phrasing
- Slides
- Bending
- Pull offs
- Hammer ons.
- Octaves
- Trills.
- Artificial and natural harmonics.
- Speed picking techniques
- Eight and sixteenth notes
- Hammer tapping techniques
- Whammy Bar
- The Wah-Wah
- Two handed tapping.
- Sweep picking.
- Chiicken picking
- Modulations
- Improvising over chords.
- Guitar FX; pedalboards.
- Composing.
- Recording in a studio.
- Playin live