Demonstrates all essential techniques and scales. Students will also learn all the important rhythms, along with note bending, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs and right hand tapping

LESSON 1

• 12 bar blues
• Quarter note riffs
• The eighth note, Eighth note riffs

LESSON 2

• Alternate picking
• 12 bar blues in A minor
• Chord progressions
• Additional riffs

LESSON 3

• The tie
• Rests and syncopation
• Eighth note triplets
• Shuffle rhythm

LESSON 4

• Improvising pattern 1
• Position
• Keynote
• Pattern 1 licks
• Using Pattern 1

LESSON 5

• The hammer-on
• The pull-off
• The sixteenth note
• The quarter note triplet
• Slurring

LESSON 6

• The slide
• Pattern 1 extension
• Licks using the slide
• Lead guitar solo 1

LESSON 7

• The bend
• Licks with bends
• The release bend
• Licks with release bend
• Lead solo 2 – Bending The Blues

LESSON 8

• Vibrato
• Pick tremolo
• Double notes
• Technique combinations
• Lead solo 3 – Rockin’ Out

LESSON 9

• Open string slurs
• Right hand fretting
• Two-handed tapping
• Three finger slurring

LESSON 10

• The blues scale
• The major scale
• The natural minor scale
• Lead solo 4 – Watching the Rising Sun
• Other improvising patterns
• Jamming progressions
• 12 bar blues progressions
• Minor key progressions
• Major key progressions (type 1)
• Major key progressions (type 2)