Rock Fingerpicking Guitar

Single-note and chord-based fingerpicking techniques for rock guitar are covered.

Electronic tuners indicate sharp or flat notes to precisely tune guitars.

Covers chord diagrams, scale diagrams, and tablature symbols, including left-hand fingering, black dots, white numbers, dotted strings, and more.

Fingerpicking techniques for rock music are developed through the refinement of existing skills and introduction to core principles.

Optimizes fingerpicking technique through proper seating, instrument hold, and arm positioning.

Proper hand technique for guitar playing covers finger positioning, thumb placement, and wrist alignment.

Fingerstyle guitar technique covers free stroke and thumb position methods, including string picking with fingernails.

Covers basic lead guitar licks played with fingers, exploring A Minor Pentatonic and Blues scales.

The course covers A minor pentatonic and A Blues scales, plus techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, and vibratos.

Major Pentatonic scales, staccato picking, right-hand damping, and left-hand damping are covered, along with exercises and examples.

Covers the basics of polyphonic playing, introducing students to simultaneous note-picking techniques used in fingerstyle guitar.

Introduces fundamental rock fingerpicking techniques through chord shapes and right-hand methods.

Basic chord-based fingerpicking licks and techniques for enhanced Rock music playing.

Fingerpicking with Four-String Chords and Muting Techniques combining arpeggio and alternating thumb styles in the final example.

Introduces the Pick and Fingers Technique, combining fingerpicking with picking.

Introduces basic principles of rock guitar soloing by combining fingerpicking and scales.

The musical alphabet, staff notation, and key elements such as treble clef, ledger lines, and bar lines are introduced.

Note values are introduced, covering lengths, equivalent rests, dotting, and tying techniques.

Time signatures are explained, covering the relationship between top and bottom numbers representing beats per bar and note duration.

Tone and semitone relationships, scale definitions, and key types like chromatic, major, minor, and blues are covered.

Introduces the chromatic scale, a series of 12 semitone intervals spanning an octave.

Major scales cover the fundamental structure and characteristics, a cornerstone of Western music theory.

Natural, harmonic, and melodic minor scales are covered, with a focus on their differences and common uses in Western music.

The Minor Pentatonic Scale is introduced as a fundamental musical concept used across various genres.

Introduces the concept of constructing the Major Pentatonic Scale by combining specific notes from a major scale.

Key signatures are shorthand representations of scales, illustrating relationships between keys and melodies.

Relative keys share notes with their corresponding major scales, with the minor scale's tonic matching the major scale's sixth.

Fingerpicking techniques from diverse genres, including blues, folk, and classical music, are covered.