Contents:

Guitar From Scratch:

• Preliminaries
• Choice of guitar
• Picks, capos and the neck
• Fretting and tuning
• Relative tuning
• Chords and chords
• E Minor chord
• Some principles
• E Major chord
• A Minor chord
• Switching from Em to Am
• C Major chord
• Switching from Em to Am to C
• G Major chord
• Switching between G and C
• Teamwork
• Sympathy and more G chords
• Song Examples
• D Major Chord
• The G Chord Family - song examples
• The Rhythm Changes
• F Major chord
• D Minor chord
• The C Chord Family - song examples
• Strumming Away
• Down-Up motion
• Notation
• Rock Strum Pattern
• Folk Strum Pattern
• Country Strum Pattern
• Hip Hop Strum Pattern
• The D Chord Family - song examples
• A Major chord
• B Minor and B Minor-seventh chords
• Seventh chords - D7, G7 and A7
• 1 - 4 - 5 substitutions
• The A Chord Family - song examples
• Switching from A to D to E to E7
• The E Chord Family - song examples
• B7 chord
• The Circle of Fifths
• Progressions in C, G and D
• Strumming, Part Two
• Escape hatch
• Jazz chords
• Major-seventh chords
• Minor-seventh chords
• Suspended chords
• Anchor chords
• Chord Review
• Fingerpicking
• Notation and the Tier System
• Arpeggios and Tablature
• ¾ Time
• Arpeggios in the wild
• Travis-Style fingerpicking
• 5/4 and 6/4 bass patterns
• Inside-Out picking patterns
• Outside-In picking patterns
• Pinch patterns
• Strumming, Part Three (variations)
• Power chords: E-shape and A-shape
• Barre chords: E-shape and A-shape
• 1 - 4 - 5 and Rhythm Changes
• Epilogue
• Appendix A: Bunches of Useful Chords
• Appendix B: Using the capo to make key changes

Guitar From Scratch - The Sequel:

• Stupid Chords Tricks involving:
• The G chord
• The G7 chord
• The D chord
• The A chord
• The C chord
• The Am chord
• The F chord
• The E chord
• The Em chord
• The E7 chord
• Anchor Chords Revisited
• Drone Chord Progressions
• Passing Chords
• G to Em
• C to Am and Beyond
• Various others
• Major-Major 7th-7th
• Shape-Shifting:
• C Shape
• D Shape
• G Shape
• A Shape
• E Shape
• Bass Runs:
• Key of G
• Key of C
• Key of E
• Key of A
• Hammer-ons
• Actual Examples
• Single Note Lines:
• Alternate Picking
• Position Playing
• Actual Examples
• Major Scale Summary
• Fun With Pentatonics
• E Minor
• A Minor Up the Neck
• Any Key
• Twelve-Bar Blues
• G Major
• C Major
• Advanced Strumming
• Damping Pattern
• Three-over-Four Pattern
• Getting to Carnegie Hall
• Note Reading
• Note Values
• Letter Names
• Open Strings
• First String
• Second String
• Chord Tie-in
• Combining the First Two Strings
• Third String
• Fourth String
• Fifth String
• Sixth String
• Rests