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Welcome to the web page for young
people learning to play acoustic guitar!
If you have questions or comments,
please feel free to email me at
TUNING
(Please scroll to the bottom to hear tuning notes.)
For all of the “lessons” and charts
below, you may click on the link to view or listen.
(If you view a sheet,
it will open in a PDF window.
Click the ‘Back’ button
to return to this page.)
If you wish to save these documents
to your computer,
just right click on the word ‘HERE’ and then click “save
target as”.
Choose a folder on your desktop and
save it permanently to your folder.
(Save them to your MP3 player too!)
For my students, I would ask that
you print out the pages and put them in a three ring binder.
Please bring your binder to class
with you (and don’t forget a pick).
Lesson Video
Click HERE to watch a lesson video about
how to play “Seminole Wind”
Click HERE to watch a lesson video and
play along with “Seminole Wind”
CHORD FINGERING CHARTS
Click HERE to review the finger numbers
Click HERE for
EZ Strum Chords Page 1
(Open E chords and A chords)
Click HERE for
EZ Strum Chords Page 2
(Open A chords, D, G, C)
Click HERE for more challenging chords Page 3
(C Maj, Fdim, B7, E7, A7)
Click HERE for the basic Barre Chord forms (difficult)
Page 4
(F Maj, G Maj, A Maj, Am7, D2, Dm7)
SCALES
Click HERE to see the scale chart for Major Scale
Click HERE to listen to instructions on how to
play a Major
Scale
Click HERE to listen to the Major Scale
Click HERE to see the scale chart for Rock Scale
(Pentatonic)
Click HERE to listen to instructions on how
to play the Rock
Scale
Click HERE to listen to the Rock Scale at
a slow tempo
Click HERE to listen to the Rock Scale at
a medium tempo
Click HERE to listen to the Rock Scale at
a faster tempo
Click HERE to listen to the Inverted Rock
Scale
Click HERE to listen to a jam that you can play
the Rock
Scale with
Click HERE to see the scale chart for the Natural Minor
Scale
Click HERE to see the scale chart for the Melodic Minor
Scale
PLAYING MELODIC LINES
Click HERE to listen to instructions on how to
play Melodic
Lines on the Acoustic Guitar
Click HERE to listen to instructions on how to
practice Melodic
Lines on the E string
Click HERE to listen to instructions on how to
practice Melodic
Lines on the E and B strings
Click HERE to listen to instructions on how to
practice Melodic
Lines on the E, B and G strings
(Note: add the remaining three strings in the same
manner.)
STRUMMING PATTERNS
Click HERE to listen to a basic strumming pattern
for E to A2
Click HERE to listen to a basic strumming pattern
for G to C2
Click HERE to listen to a shuffle beat pattern
for E to A2
Click HERE to listen to a basic backbeat strumming
pattern for Various
Keys
Click HERE to listen to an accent attack strumming
pattern for C2
to G
Click HERE to listen to an accent attack
strumming pattern for D4 to C2 to G
Click HERE to listen to index shifting with the B7 Chord
Click HERE to listen to an “orchestration”
strumming pattern for G
Click HERE to listen to a “turnaround” strumming
pattern for Various
Chords
Click HERE to listen to a “hammer on” strumming
pattern for A2
Click HERE to listen to an accented bass note jam
strumming pattern for E to G to A2
Click HERE to listen to a palm damping strumming
patter for E
to A2
Click HERE to listen to the “disco clang-a-lang”
riff on the High
E7 Chord
Click HERE to listen to a “falloff” for Various Chords
FLATPICKING PATTERNS
Click HERE to listen to flatpicking on the A2 Chord
Click HERE to listen to flatpicking on the C2 Chord
Click HERE to listen to flatpicking on the Am7 Chord
Click HERE to listen to flatpicking on the E Chord
Click HERE to listen to flatpicking on the Em to Am7 Chords
Click HERE to listen to flatpicking on the Chords for
Unashamed Love
(see whole song below)
BARRE CHORD TECHNIQUE
Click HERE to listen to playing technique for the D2 Barre Chord
Click HERE to listen to strumming technique for
the D2 Barre
Chord
Click HERE to listen to strumming technique
for the D2
Barre Chord
Note: The spoken audio is wrong on
these. The chord is not A2, it’s D2.
So shifting it down a half step makes
it Db2 and up a half makes it Eb2.
PLAY ALONG WITH SONGS
Click HERE to see the chord chart for I Can Only
Imagine
Click HERE to listen to the strumming for I Can Only Imagine
Click HERE to see the chord chart for You Never Let Go
Click HERE to listen to the strumming for You Never Let Go
Click HERE to see the chord chart for Unashamed Love
Click HERE to listen to the strumming for Unashamed Love
Click HERE to see the chord chart for Let Your Mercy Rain
Click HERE to listen to the strumming for Let Your Mercy Rain
Click HERE for
the fingerings to Smiles And Smiles To Go,
by Larry Carlton
Click HERE to listen
to the Smiles And Smiles To Go
THE BLUES
Click HERE to listen to blues riff in the key of A
TUNING
Click HERE to listen to the E String (6) for tuning
Click HERE to listen to the A String (5) for tuning
Click HERE to listen to the D String (4) for tuning
Click HERE to listen to the G String (3) for tuning
Click HERE to listen to the B String (2) for tuning
Click HERE to listen to the E String (1) for tuning