✅ Stop! Read Before You Begin
If you’re learning anything beyond Baa Baa Black Sheep, you’ll need to revisit these videos and PDFs right up to your last practice at 99. Even I forget this stuff and I’ve been in lessons since 1999. Unless you’re better than me and every pro I know, you’ll need to refresh it too. At least every two weeks, go through it again. Daily drills, regular theory checks. Up to Grade 5? Know it all (except modes/harmonics). Grade 6 to 8? Master everything here like a guitar god.
How to read tab for beginners
Tab Symbols explained (not for absolute beginners)
Learn the fretboard
Rhythm and right hand technique 🔥
Strumming Patterns - Play along with it 🎸
How to read music
| rhythm_tree.pdf |
Dotted notes (watch this multiple times)
Tied notes
Rests, palm muting, and dead notes
Triplets
Shuffle Rhythm
Symbols in music notation (watch all 3 parts)
Repeats (this applies to Notation and TAB)
Modes
Modes Advanced
Harmonics
Circle of fifths (not for beginners)
Notes and Keys
| notes_and_keys.pdf |
Common notes and symbols in music
| common-notes-and-symbols-in-music.pdf |
Treble Clef cheat sheet
| treble_clef_cheat_sheet.pdf |