The Absolute Beginning

• Stringing Your Guitar • Tuning Your Guitar • Memorizing the Fretboard

• Tips on Buying a Guitar • Why I Started to Play Guitar • Cleaning Your Guitar

Chords & Strumming

• Basic Major Chords (C,A,G,E,D) • Other Major Chords in Barre Form • Basic Minor Chords (Am,Em,Dm) • Other Minor Chords in Barre Form • Moving Open Chords to Barre Form • Dissecting an E Minor Chord

• Strumming Technique • Hammer-Ons and Strumming • Suspensions and Strumming • How Chords are Constructed • How Chords Move Vertically

Tunes for Strumming Practice

• "Here Comes Santa Claus" • "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"

• "Sleighride" • "We Wish You A Merry Christmas"

Scales & Picking

• The C Major Scale • The A Minor Scale • The Chromatic Scale

• Mastering the Fingerboard • Alternate Picking I • Alternate Picking II

Genre-Specific Basics

• 12-Bar Blues: What is it? • Basic Blues Shuffle

• Smoke on the Water Riff • Basic Fingerpicking

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