Lessons

I’m overwhelmed by the number of emails I’ve received since taking down my lesson resources back in 2002. I’ve literally gotten hundreds of requests for the files, and to be honest, I wasn’t even sure where I put them. But after digging around some popular Internet archiving spiders, I was able to find most of the lessons I used in the past, and am now putting them back online. I NO LONGER offer private lessons, as I am kept pretty busy with web design, my career, my family, and my bands.

After a number of years teaching private lessons for guitar, I developed many of my own teaching packets. I wanted to prepare the student to perform and be familiar and comfortable with the fretboard, while being able to retain his or her musical freedom. Here are some of my standard lesson plans for free download. While none of these works is a lesson in its own, each outlines a section of scalular and chordal theory for a potentially infinite practice regimen and hours of discussion. They were built open-ended so they could be used with a variety of students under most situations. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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LESSON RESOURCES:

	Reference Chord Groupings Min7 Arpeggios Maj7 Arpeggios Major Arpeggios Minor Arpeggios Dom7 Arpeggios Quasi-Chromatic Exercises Using Odd Tuplets	Modal Theory Modes of the Major Scale The Locrian Mode The Lydian Mode The Mixolydian Mode The Phrygian Mode The Dorian Mode The Aeolian Mode Modal Formulation
	Scales / Transcriptions Major Scales Melodic Minor Scales Harmonic Minor Scales Blues Scales Major Pentatonic Scales Diminished Scales The Entertainer Hall Of the Mountain King	Authored Lessons Exotic Scales, Part I Tuplets! Get Out Of That Box! Rand McNally And You The Modes All of my Guitar9 Lessons »

 

Please note: I offer guitar lesson resources, music, and other media (owned by me) on my site due to multiple requests. I have developed, written, or compiled these over the course of many years. You may take lesson resources for your own use, but please do not redistribute them or remove my name from them. The music available for download is freely available, however. You may reproduce it in any way that does not earn you money. If you wish to use my music for any activity or item that will earn a profit, you must request a written consent from me in order to use any as such. The work has been copyrighted, so copyright law is in effect.

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