Blues Fingerpicking Guitar

Traditional and contemporary blues fingerpicking techniques covered, including left and right hand methods, slide playing, and authentic progressions.

Accurate pitch detection is achieved by using electronic tuners or smartphone apps like Cleartune or PolyTune.

Covers chord diagram symbols and left-hand fingering techniques for playing guitar chords.

Analyzes different types of diagrams and their uses in representing scales for guitar playing.

Guitar tablature is indicated by six lines representing strings, with note positions shown on the fretboard.

Tablature symbols are covered for hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, and reverse bends, as well as vibrato techniques.

Fingerpicking techniques for blues music are introduced, focusing on fundamental skills and strategies for effective performance.

Covers correct guitar positioning, including seating, holding the instrument, and right and left arm placement for proper fingerpicking technique.

Develops skills for efficient and effective hand positioning on the guitar.

Picking techniques and right-hand methods are covered, including string plucking with fingernails.

Covers fundamental structures of blues songs, including common chord progressions and musical logic.

Covers fundamental blues chord progressions, including variations and seventh chords.

The progression covers the eight-bar blues structure and its variations, as well as its use in country-blues songwriting.

Introduces a common fingerpicking pattern with constant bass line, applicable to a 12 Bar Blues progression in the key of A.

Left-hand techniques for blues guitar include hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, and vibratos.

Introduces techniques for playing constant bass lines and turnaround licks in the key of E, incorporating minor pentatonic and blues scales.

Introduces right-hand muting, doubled bass lines, lead-in bass notes, and bass runs in advanced blues fingerpicking.

Introduces various scale patterns, including the A Minor Pentatonic and A Blues scales in higher positions.

Blues playing skills focus on mastering licks and improvisation with common chord shapes.

The alternating thumb style is introduced for playing Blues guitar, with techniques applied to various chords across multiple keys.

Fingerpicking slide guitar techniques and left-hand thumb positioning are covered.

Staff structure, clefs, note positions, and bar lines are introduced to provide a foundation in music notation.

Note values and rests are explored, including considerations of dotted notes and ties.

Time signatures are explored, covering common patterns such as 4/4 and 3/4, including notation of beats per bar and note durations.

Introduces fundamental concepts of musical scales, including tone and semitone patterns, natural notes, steps, and half-steps.

The chromatic scale is a sequence of semitones covering all 12 half-steps within an octave.

Introduces the fundamental sequence of tones and semitones that comprise the major scale, a staple of Western music.

Minor scales are introduced, covering the characteristics of natural, harmonic, and melodic types, including their unique tone and semitone patterns.

The Minor Pentatonic Scale is constructed and its common applications are introduced.

The Blues Scale is a fundamental concept in music theory, characterized by specific intervals and usage.

The structure of music keys and scales is explained, including how key signatures work as a shorthand for major scales.

Relative keys cover major and minor scales, harmonic and melodic variations, and key signature relationships.