CLASS PRACTICE AUDIO – ABSOLUTE BEGINNER

Lesson One: To play guitar, you must pick up your guitar and… play!

1.) Introduction

2.) Lead with Plant Finger D-G, One Strum per Measure

3.) Practice Tips

Lesson Two: Lock Your Hand in With the Beat

1.) Lock Your Hand in With the Beat. D to G Quarter Note Strums.

2.) Eighth Notes Up and Down (Batman)

3.) Practice Tips

Lesson Three: Leave Fingers Down.

1) G-Em-C-D7 with Four Strums Per Measure

2.) Practice Tips

Lesson Four: Alternate Strums

1.) D-A7-G-A7 with Eighth Note Strums

2.) Small Barre Sliding Triplet

3.) Practice Tips

Lesson Five: Riffing

1.) Wild Riff

2.) Alt 8s G-D-Am-Am-G-D-C-C

3.) Practice Tips

Lesson Six: Basic Strum – Keep the Hand Moving

1.) Basic Strum G-C-G-C-G-C-D-D

2.) Practice Tips

Lesson Seven: Best Strum

1.) Best Strum G-C-G-D

2.) Practice Tips

Lesson Eight: Mixed Rhythms

1.) Basic Strum in G, Best Strum in Em

2.) Split Measure C-D with Basic Strum

3.) Practice Tips

Lesson Nine: A

1.) Review of the Wild Riff

2.) A-D Best

3.) Practice Tips