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Getting Started on the Guitar • Tuning Your Guitar • Why I Started to Play Guitar Basic Guitar Chords • 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 Guitar Strumming • Strumming Technique • Adding Hammer-Ons to Your Strumming Basic Guitar Scales • The C Major Scale • The A Minor Scale Basic Guitar Techniques • Hammer-On and Pull-Off Technique • Introduction to Slides Rock Guitar Lessons • Basic Rock Bends • Rock Chordal Ideas • R&B Rhythm Licks • Eric Johnson Style Licks • Jimmy Page Style Licks • Jimi Hendrix Licks Jazz Guitar Lessons • Modes of the Major Scale • All The Things You Should Play • Diminished Licks Over an E7 Groove

Blues Guitar Lessons • 12 Bar Blues: What is it? • Blues Rhythm Guitar I • Blues Rhythm Guitar II • Blues Turnarounds • Blues Soloing and Basic Harmony • Walking Bass Lines with Chords • Eric Clapton Style Acoustic Blues • Stevie Ray Vaughan Licks I • Stevie Ray Vaughan Licks II • Lightnin' Hopkins Style • John Lee Hooker Style Metal Guitar Lessons • Harmonic Minor Scale Basics • Minor Pentatonic Forms • Minor Pentatonic Scale Patterns • Right-Hand Tapping Basics • String-Skipping Pentatonic Patterns • Open-String Legato Arpeggios • Paganini: Caprice #5 Acoustic Guitar Lessons • Basic Fingerpicking • "Blackbird" Fingerpicking • Ragtime Fingerpicking #1 • Ragtime Fingerpicking #2 • "Maple Leaf Rag" by S. Joplin • "The Easy Winners" by S. Joplin • "Scarborough Fair" • "Greensleeves"

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