• Guitar overview - The physical aspect of guitars
• Tuning - Techniques of tuning
• Basic chords & practice discipline/exercises
• The Internet as a resource for learning i.e. Jamstudio.com
• Full chords & bar chords
• Rhythm patterns and time signatures, tempo
• Suspended and augmented chords (not as hard as they sound)
• Reading Guitar Tab (Tablature)
• Finger Picking
• Chord Progressions, Song structure
• Creativity
• Warm Up Exercises & Basic Scales (Pentatonic)
• Improvised Soloing using basic scales and patterns
• Alternative Tunings
• Multitrack Recording*
• Singing Tips

Throughout all areas of teaching, songs are taught relative to the students' abilities and likes, each song taught will have a different playing style utilising simple chords and advancing to more technical chord progressions and chords variations. This in a short amount of time will prepare a student to be able to research the song they want to learn and notate it for future reference, practice or performance.

Students will also indirectly learn IT skills such as word processing and techniques for discovery of relevant information when using the Internet.

Subjects -
Subject Areas Covered
Transposition & Keys

Tonewoods
13 minute program about tonewoods (13Mb mp3)

Gear -
Morgan Monroe MVS-45
Taylor 514ce
Pedalboard

Links -
Blank Sheet Music
Jam Studio
Registry of Guitar Tutors
Tonewoods - Wikipedia