
Learn all about guitar theory using this easy step by step guide
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Here's The Entire Lesson Plan You'll Be Receiving When You're Inside...
1. Introduction - What the customer is about to learn.
2. Notes - What is a note? How they are organized. How are notes named? This lesson introduces the concepts of representing pitches by notes.
3. The Staff - What is a staff? What is a clef? Introduction to how music theory relates the musical staff.
4. Notes on The Staff - Each note and its respective place on the musical staff. Ledger lines and the direction of the stems. The basics of reading music.
5. Notes On The first String - Goes through the notes located on the first string in detail. Practice material.
6. Notes On The Second String - Goes through the notes located on the second string in detail. Practice material.
7. Notes On The Third String - Goes through the notes located on the third string in detail. Practice material.
8. Notes On The Fourth String - Goes through the notes located on the fourth string in detail. Practice material.
9. Notes On The Fifth String - Goes through the notes located on the fifth string in detail. Practice material.
10. Notes On The Sixth String - Goes through the notes located on the sixth string in detail. Practice material.
11. Notes On The Fretboard - Summary of the previous seven lessons. Gives graphic representation of all the notes on the fretboard with method on how to memorize them.
12. Sharps and Flats - Covers sharps and flats on the fretboard and the idea of accidentals in music. Lists all of the rules associated with accidentals.
13. Note and rest values - Introduces the concept of notes being played for certain lengths of time.
14. Organizing Note Shapes – Lengthening notes shapes, ties, and grouping notes. An introduction to the organization of note lengths.
15. Beats and time signatures - Shows the guitarist how to keep time while reading music. Covers various time signatures and how many beats are assigned to each note shape.
16. Counting - How to count out notes to play the notes properly using the assigned key signatures and beats.
17. Tempo – How fast the music should be played. Covers the symbols and words used to direct guitarist on how fast to play the music.
18. Dynamics – How loud the music should be played. Introduces the idea of dynamics and the various symbols and words used to direct guitarists on volume.
19. The Musical Road Map – How to navigate complex pieces of music. Takes the guitarist through repeat signs and Dal Segno symbols.
20. Symbols For Guitarists – Numbers, techniques, and various effects that show up on sheet music specifically targeted towards guitarists.
21. Tones And Scale Basics - Introduces the guitarist to the concept of scales. Focus is put on the major scale and its tonal pattern..
22. Key signatures and their specific rules - Introduces the concepts of keys.
23. Scale Degrees - Explains the use of roman numerals in scale theory. Review of octaves.
24. Circle of Fifths - Gives alternative methods to learning scales.
25. How Scales Are Named – How scales are named using key signatures
26. Major Scales – Continuation of the previous lessons on major scales and the theory that accompanies them. Mostly consist of practice scales.
27. Minor Scales - Intro to minor scales. Covers natural, harmonic, and melodic minor scales with their respective tonal patterns.
28. Minor Scale Key Signatures – Discusses how minor scales get their key signatures. Goes into detail on the relative minor scale.
29. Adjusting Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales – The accidentals needed to adjust a harmonic or melodic scale when it's assigned a key signature.
30. Playing Minor Scales – Practice material using the information from the previous lessons on minor scales.
31. Pentatonic Scales – Introduction to pentatonic scales and the tonal patterns that accompanies them. How to build a pentatonic scale from scratch and integrate into daily playing routines.
32. Modes – Goes through the series of modes and why they are important to learn. Forms relationships between the scales previously learned.
33. Introduction To Intervals – What an interval is in addition to harmonic and melodic intervals. Naming major and perfect intervals.
34. Intervals Cont' – Investigates the construction of minor, diminished and augmented intervals.
35. Interval Inversions – Introduces the concept and uses of intervals inversions.
36 Compound Intervals – What happens when the interval is larger than an octave. How to name compound intervals.
37. Consonant/Dissonant – What intervals are pleasing to the ear verses which intervals sound displeasing.
38. Using Intervals To Play By Ear – Basic ear training with intervals.
39. Introduction To Chords – Basic triads and construction of simple chords using a major scale. Discusses their inversions.
40. Minor, Diminished and Augmented Triads – How to build minor, diminished, and augmented triads. Goes through their respective inversions.
41. Diatonic Triads – The seven triads of each major or minor scale. Moves into chord scales and the order of major, minor, and diminished chords.
42. Playing Triads – Triads on the fretboard and their uses in music.
43. Larger Chord Extensions – How to build chords larger than a triad.
44. Transposition – The basics of how and why we transpose music.
45. Transposition Cont' – Continuation of the previous lesson.
46. Smooth by Carlos Santana
47. The One I Love by R.E.M
48. Clocks by Coldplay
49. Bless The Broken Road by Rascal Flats
50. Stayin' Alive by Bee Gees
51. Conclusion – Congratulations on finishing the course and the accomplishments of the guitarist.
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Thu, 11/13/2008 - 13:44
Wow, I cant believe I managed to find all this info in one place! Thank you very much!
I have just started to take up the guitar and love it, recently bought myself an Ibanez Iceman!