Song List:
Preliminaries
Choice of guitar
Picks, capos and the neck
Fretting and tuning
Relative Tuning
Chords and chords
E Minor Chord
Some principles
E Major chord
A Minor Chord
Switching from Em to Am
C Major chord
Switching from Em to Am to C
G Major chord
Switching between G and C
Teamwork
Sympathy and more G chords
Song Examples
D Major Chord
The G Chord Family - song examples
The Rhythm Changes
F Major chord
D Minor Chord
The C Chord Family - song examples
Strumming Away
Down-Up motion
Notation
Rock Strum Pattern
Folk Strum Pattern
Country Strum Pattern
Hip Hop Strum Pattern
The D Chord Family - song examples
A Major chord
B Minor and B Minor-seventh chords
Seventh chords - D7, G7 and A7
The A Chord Family - song examples
Switching from A to D to E to E7
The E Chord Family - song examples
B7 Chord
The Circle of Fifths
Progressions in C, G and D
Strumming, Part Two
Escape hatch
Jazz chords
Major-seventh chords
Minor-seventh chords
Suspended Chords
Anchor chords
Chord Review
Fingerpicking
Notation and the Tier System
Arpeggios and Tablature
3/4 Time
Arpeggios in the wild
Travis-Style fingerpicking
5/4 and 6/4 bass patterns
Inside-Out picking patterns
Outside-In picking patterns
Pinch patterns
Strumming, Part Three (variations)
Power chords: E-shape and A-shape
Barre chords: E-shape and A-shape
1 - 4 - 5 and Rhythm Changes
Epilogue
Appendix A: Bunches of Useful Chords
Appendix B: Using the capo to make key changes
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