Master The Guitar In 7 Days!

Master the Guitar In 7 Days!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Day 1
Introduction Fundamentals of Your Guitar Tuning Hand & Finger Basics Posture

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Day 2 – Review of Day 1
(Practice “For What it's Worth”)
Open Chords Major open chords Minor open chords Dominant 7th major chords Major 7th open chords Diminished chords Augmented chords Summary

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Day 3 – Review of Day 1 - 2(Practice “Hurt”)
Beginning Theory Major scales Minor scales Harmonic minor scales Melodic minor scales

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Day 4 – Review of Day 1 - 3
Beginning Theory Cont. Key signature glossary Notation & other music symbols

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Day 5 – Review of Day 1 - 4
Tablature

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Day 6 – Review of Day 1 - 5
(Practice “Hey There Delilah”)
CAGED system for barre chords E & AForms Power chords Strumming Patterns

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Day 7 – Review all Days
(Practice “Seven Nation Army”)
Time to Play Conclusion

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DAY 1
INTRODUCTION
It looks like you want to learn the guitar! Congratulations! You will find this endeavor rewarding and at times, very trying. I have been a musician for nearly 30 years and am here to inject my musical wisdom into you.There won't be a magic button you can press that will make you good. Practice will be the only way to get where you want to go and play the way you want to play, a lot of practice. I'm going to walk you through the very basics of your guitar, tuning, posture, how to hold your pick, exercises, notation, tablature, scales, beginning theory, chords, strumming, and some really simple songs you can rockto! Don't limit yourself to one genre (style) of music. You should really diversify. You will learn so much more by listening to rock, jazz, blues, bluegrass, classical, and Spanish styles of guitar. Be sure that as you learn that you spend time with people that are musicians. Learn from their experience and expertise. Everyone possesses a different interpretation of music and songwriting, so takeit as a free lesson. The last thing I want to say before we get started is have fun. Playing the guitar is an enriching experience with many rewards along the way!

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FUNDAMENTALS OF YOUR GUITAR
One of the first things you are going to want to do is get familiar with your guitar, guitar part names, and accessory names. Here is a diagram:

All parts of the guitar are equally important,but some of the areas of particular interest are (from the bottom up) the bridge, strings, neck, fret, and tuning pegs. Let's begin with the bridge. This is where your stings will be changed. There are round pegs at the end of every string. These will need to be pulled out and new stings inserted. You will need to learn the string names. Beginning from
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the top (biggest) string to the bottomstring (smallest): EADGBE. The top and bottom strings are the same note, just different octaves.

On the neck of your guitar you should notice two things. One, there are going to be a series of metal lines that extend from one end of the neck to the other. These are called frets. Two, if you look down the side of the neck of your guitar you will see dots. The dots are located at frets 3, 5, 7, 9,12, 15, and 17. Fret 12 has a double dot for which I will explain further once we get to that portion of these lessons. Let's talk for a minute about the tuning pegs at the top of the guitar on the headstock. This is where the stings end. Before you ever change strings, pay particular attention to which peg each string ends up. Here is a helpful hint for remembering how the strings are placedinto the tuning pegs. If you are holding your guitar in posture (which will be discussed a little later) there will be three pegs pointing toward the ceiling (upright) and three pointing toward the ground (downward). If you are looking at the guitar as the diagram indicates, there will be three pegs on the left and three pegs on the right. Let's work with the latter example. Low E (biggest string)...