Beginning Acoustic Guitar Music Lessons

Course details

Learn how to play guitar at your own pace. These easy-to-follow videos features examples in TAB and standard music notation, and hands-on instruction by guitar virtuoso Jared Meeker. You'll learn how to hold the instrument, play with a pick, count time, read music, and play simple chords. After mastering these basics, you'll be introduced to fingerpicking, barre chords, improvisation, music theory, and a variety of styles, including blues, rock, country, and folk. Beginning Acoustic Guitar is a must-have for anyone serious about starting to learn acoustic guitar.

Learning objectives
Styles of acoustic guitar masters
Getting to know your tools
Tuning
Strumming
Reading music
Playing chords
Flatpicking and fingerpicking
Music theory
Switching chords
Understanding musical expression, phrasing, and dynamics

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

1. Getting Started

02 - Getting to know your tools
03 - Tuning
04 - The notes on the fretboard
05 - Reading tablature (TAB)
06 - Your first chords - Easy G, C, and D7
07 - Strumming a song
08 - Awesome tips for learning and switching chords
09 - Full-size chords - D, A, and G
10 - Full-size chords - E and C

2. Reading Music

11 - The notes and the staff
12 - Notes on the 1st string
13 - Notes on the 2nd string
14 - Time
15 - Notes on the 3rd string
16 - Rests
17 - Eighth notes
18 - Notes on the 4th string
19 - Eighth rests and dotted notes
20 - Notes on the 5th and 6th strings
21 - Sight-reading songs
22 - Adding sharps and flats
23 - Reading key signatures
24 - 1st and 2nd endings

3. More New Chords

25 - Minor chords
26 - Bluegrass G chord and a C chord to match
27 - The art of strumming
28 - Country and bluegrass strumming
29 - Country and bluegrass flatpicking
30 - Rocking out with syncopation
31 - Cadd9
32 - Waltz time

4. Basic Fingerpicking

33 - The right-hand position
34 - First fingerpicking patterns
35 - Alternating bass patterns
36 - Travis picking and pinch patterns
37 - Fingerpicking in waltz time

5. Improvisation, Music Theory, and Intervals

38 - Improvisation and music theory
39 - The major scale
40 - The circle of 5ths
41 - Open-position major scales in C, G, and D
42 - Movable major scale fingerings
43 - Intervals are your building blocks
44 - Interval fingerings
45 - Harmony and chords
46 - Getting started with improvisation

6. The Blues

47 - The 12-bar blues
48 - Blues rhythm
49 - The minor pentatonic scale
50 - Beginning blues improvisation
51 - Bending
52 - New chords - The dominant 7th
53 - More 7th chords - Blues in E
54 - Minor blues and minor 7th chords
55 - The major pentatonic scale

7. New Techniques

56 - Switching chords mid-measure
57 - Split strumming
58 - The mute stroke
59 - A new folk country strum and I V vi IV
60 - Transposition
61 - Power chords
62 - Barre chords
63 - Thumb chords
64 - Hammer-ons and pull-offs
65 - Walking the bass

8. Expression, Phrasing, and Dynamics

66 - Musical expression, phrasing, and dynamics

Conclusion

67 - Goodbye