A short Beginner’s Guitar Course Mark D McGlynn © Mark McGlynn 2010 Lesson 1 Introduction to the guitar • • • • • neck/body/strings/frets how do you get different notes? notes of the open strings tuning the guitar to a piano tuning a guitar when no piano is available Head Tuning Pegs Frets Strings Neck Body Sound hole Pickups Bridge Notes and chords • C, A, G, E, D • moving between chords © Mark McGlynn 2010 Lesson 2 What is a scale? • C Major scale • Chords based on the major scale - C major, A minor, F major G major • ‘Do Wap’ songs C Am F G • 4/4 basic strumming pattern Em chord Song ‘My Sweet Lord’ George Harrison Lesson 3 More strumming patterns • downstrokes • upstrokes Root notes & how they help movement between chords Picking single strings Getting different tones on the guitar Song ‘Stand By Me’ by Ben E King © Mark McGlynn 2010 Lesson 4 • • • • I-IV-V chord sequence What are 7 chords? E7 A7 D7 What is the blues? Song Basic Blues boogie in A Choose a song to work on next week. Lesson 5, 6, 7 & 8 Work on song we chose last week & choose one for next week. This will lead to the acquisition of; • • • • a small reportoire of simple songs rhythm/melody/accompanyment skills arising from the songs we play the ability to play as a group the ability to read and interpret chord symbols and bars in a 4/4 and (possibly) 3/4 score, repeats, song structures etc. © Mark McGlynn 2010