Guitar Foundations

Lesson Plan Collection

  • Tuning Your Guitar
    Concept: Technique
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Hands on demo of using a tuner to tune your guitar.

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  • Good Posture
    Concept: Technique
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Learn how to hold and sit with a guitar correctly.

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  • 4-Finger Dexterity
    Concept: Technique
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Get familiar with best practices in your fretting hand.

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  • The Major Scale
    Concept: Scales
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Start mastering the most crucial scale for any musician to learn.

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  • Metronome Introduction
    Concept: Metronome
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Discover what a metronome is and how it works and helps us learn guitar.

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  • First Chords
    Concept: Harmony
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Start building your chord vocabulary with these beginner ‘Cowboy’ chords.

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  • Transitioning Chords
    Concept: Strumming
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Develop your fretting hand’s proficiency with switching (a.k.a. transitioning) chords.

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  • 2 Octave Major Scale
    Concept: Scales
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Learn to play the major scale across all 6 strings.

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  • Practicing & Playing
    Concept: Jamming
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    You know enough now to play real music, so let’s give it a try!

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  • Strumming Strokes
    Concept: Strumming
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Understand strumming and down/up strokes to improve your strumming today!

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  • Reading Chord Diagrams
    Concept: Chord Diagrams
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Gain a clear understanding of how to read guitar chord diagrams, so you can learn any chord you want!

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  • Following the Beat
    Concept: Rhythm
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Here, we’ll focus on strumming – specifically identifying pulse-related beats.

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  • Playing Along with Music
    Concept: Jamming
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Review transition tips, learn a chord structure and improve your timing.

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  • Jam Track Intro
    Concept: Jamming
    Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)

    Every guitarist uses jam tracks.  Now, its time for you to get started, too.

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Where a complete beginner should start learning guitar. This skill contains lesson plans about essentials like tuning, using a metronome, basic chords and counting time.
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Level: Level 1 (Complete Beginners)
Concepts: Chord Diagrams, Harmony, Jamming, Metronome, Rhythm, Scales, Strumming, Technique,

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Referenced Courses

Start-Up Basic Guitar for Beginners
GT-CB-101
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Strumming for Beginners
GT-CB-102
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