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3 Table of ontents SESSIONS PAGE SESSIONS PAGE ) Starting Off Right String Names, Technique, Tuning, Finger Exercises, & G hords ) Reading Music & Notes on the st & nd Strings Music Reading, st & nd String Notes & Exercises Ode To Joy (D # Tracks,,4) 4 Jingle Bells (D # Tracks 5,6,) 5 ) Notes on the rd & 4th Strings 6 Ties, Dots, Repeat Signs, Eighth Notes, rd & 4th String Notes & Exercises Yankee Doodle (D # Tr. 8,9,0) When The Saints Go Marchin' In (D # Tr.,,) Love Me Tender (D # Tr. 4,5,6) 4) Notes on the 5th & 6th Strings 5th & 6th String Notes & Exercises, Sharps, Flats, Natural Signs, Am & E hords Minuet in (D # Tr.,8,9) 6 Simple Gifts (D # Tr. 0,,) 8 The Star Spangled Banner (D # Tr.,4,5) 9 Minuet in G (D # Tr. 6,,8) 0 5) Basic Open hords Open hords & hord Exercises - Morning Has Broken (D # Tr.,,4) 5 America The Beautiful (D # Tr. 5,6,) 6 6) Minor Seventh & Suspended hords Minor Seventh & Suspended hords & Strumming Patterns Scarborough Fair (D # Tr. 8,9,0) 4 Greensleeves (D # Tr.,,) 4 The Banana Boat Song (D # Tr. 4,5,6) 4 ) Barre hords on the 6th String 4 Half-Steps & Whole Steps, 6th String Barre hords & Exercises, Major Scales Home on the Range (D # Tr.,8,9) 4 Yellow Rose of Texas (D # Tr. 0,,) 4 8) Barre hords on the 5th String 48 5th String Barre hords & Exercises, Keys & Key Signatures, Parallel Major & Minor Jamaica Farewell in F (D # Tr.,4,5) 5 Jamaica Farewell in G (D # Tr. 6,,8) 5 9) The Secret to Great Strumming 5 Strumming Technique, Intervals & Worksheets La Bamba (D # Tr.,,4) 55 The Wabash annonball (D # Tr. 5,6,) 56 Blues in E (D # Tr. 8,9,0) 56 0) Fingerstyle Guitar 5 Technique & Exercises, Merle Travis & lassical House of the Rising Sun (D # Tr.,,) 6 anon in D (D # Tr. 4,5,6) 6 ) Pentatonic Scales 6 Pentatonic Scales, Forms & Pentatonic Patterns A Minor Pentatonic Blues (D # Tr. ) 66 G Major Pentatonic (D # Tr. 8) 66 Around the Pentatonic World (D # Tr. 9) 66 ) Advanced hords 6 Two hords, Major th hords, Minor th hords, Exercises & hord Substitution Rockin' (D # Tr. 0) 0 Suspended Smooth (D # Tr. ) 0 Acoustic Groove (D # Tr. ) 0 ) Playing the Blues Blues Scale, Minor Pentatonic with Blues Notes, Blues hord Progression, Triads & Worksheets Jam Blues (D #4 Tr.,) 5 Johnny's E Blues (D #4 Tr. 4,5) 5 4) Giving Your Playing Some Style 6 Sliding, Bends, Hammer-ons, Pull-offs, Tapping & Harmonics Bending the Blues (D #4 Tr. 6) 8 Jazz Octaves (D #4 Tr. ) 9 The Funky Mute (D #4 Tr. 8) 9 5) Electric Guitars-The Heart of Rock & Roll 80 Power hords, hicken Pickin', ountry Bends, Arpeggios, Sliding 4ths, Harmonized Major Scale Power hord Rock (D #4 Tr. 9) 84 Power Riffs (D #4 Tr. 0) 84 6) Advanced Strumming 85 6th Notes, Strumming & Exercises Rolling Along (D #4 Tr. ) 8 A Little Bit Rocky (D #4 Tr. ) 88 Electric Funk (D #4 Tr. ) 88 ) Going Beyond the First Position 89 Note on a String scales, Seventh hords Triplet Scale Practice (D #5 Tr.,,4) 9 Pop Ballad Groove (D #5 Tr. 5) 9 ZZ Shuffle (D #5 Tr. 6) 9 8) Jazz 9 Jazz hords & hord Progressions All of Me (D #5 Tr. ) 96 On Green Dolphin Street (D #5 Tr.8) 9 As Time Goes By (D #5 Tr. 9) 9 9) Soloing 98 Soloing Techniques & Ear Training Ear Training Exercises (D #5 Tr. 0,,) 99 Stevie's Groove (D #5 Tr. ) 00 Every Breath (D #5 Tr. 4) 0 0) All the hords You Need To Know 0 hord Formulas, Abbreviations & Inversions hord Exercises & (D #5 Tr. 5,6) 04 Friend (D #5 Tr. ) 05 Funky Groove (D #5 Tr. 8) 05 Dancing on the eiling (D #5 Tr. 9) 06

4 SESSION 5- Basic Open hords Estimated Time to Learn These oncepts - Weeks Being good is not about playing fast, it's about thinking fast. ~ Anonymous 4 D D D m E E E m G G B 4 4 A A A m 4 SESSION 5 Basic Open hords

5 Basic Open hord Exercises - Learning the, G, Am, E, & Dm chords G.. This chord uses 5 strings. Strum chord for each beat. Am 5 string chord E Am This chord uses 6 strings. 6 string chord. 4. Strum chord down & up for each eighth note pair. Am Dm Dm G 4 string chord 5. Am Dm G 6. SESSION 5 Basic Open hords

6 Basic Open hord Exercises - Learning the G, D, Em, & B chords G D. 6 string chord 4 string chord D. B Em. 5 string chord 6 string chord Use your finger tips to get all of the notes to sound properly. Am B 4. G Em 5. Watch your rhythm carefully! G D Em B 6. SESSION 5 Basic Open hords

7 Basic Open hord Exercises - Learning the D,, A, A & E chords D A 4 string chord 5 string chord. A. 5 string chord 5 string chord Em A Em B. A D E E 6 string chord 4. G Em D 5. Dm Am G 6. hange chords quickly to not break the rhythm. SESSION 5 4 Basic Open hords

8 Session 5 Assignment Memorize the Basic Open hord Forms. (page ) Play through Basic hord Exercises, &. (pages -4) Play Morning Has Broken, both notes and chords. (page 5) Play America the Beautiful. (page 6) Jam Along D # Track - Slow Version Track - Medium Version Track 4 - Fast Version Morning Has Broken SESSION 5 5 Basic Open hords

9 Jam Along D # Track 5 - Slow Version Track 6 - Medium Version Track - Fast Version America The Beautiful Samuel A. Ward Key Signature = F# All F's are sharped throughout the whole song. SESSION 5 6 Basic Open hords

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