Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate

If you're an acoustic guitar player looking for a challenge, then this course is for you. Learn about suspended chords, altered tuning, soloing patterns, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Reading music and tablature (TAB)

1. New Colors and Textures

• Flatpicking arpeggios
• Suspended chords
• Add9 chords
• Movable dominant 7th chords
• Harmonics
• Tuning with harmonics
• Slides
• Bending strings and vibrato

2. New Grooves and Styles

• Acoustic funk strumming
• Acoustic funk split strumming
• Creating a monster funk groove
• A taste of swing
• The grooves of New Orleans
• Modern celtic rhythm guitar
• Old-time guitar: The roots of bluegrass
• Bluegrass part 1: Flatpicking a fiddle tune
• Bluegrass part 2: Backup and lead
• Delta blues

3. Pentatonic Possibilities

• Rule the fretboard in five Notes—the major pentatonic scale sliding fingering
• Blurring the line between rhythm and lead
• The minor pentatonic sliding fingering

4. Mapping the Fretboard in Boxes

• The five positions of the minor pentatonic scale
• The five positions of the major pentatonic scale
• Using the pentatonic scales to play the 8-bar blues

5. Harmony

• Major triads up the neck
• Minor triads up the neck
• Triads in reggae
• The five major triad block forms
• Harmony for writing and arranging
• Double stops

6. Introducing Alternate Tunings

• Getting creative with open strings
• Drop D tuning
• Double drop D tuning
• Open G tuning
• Open D tuning

Conclusion

• Conclusion and credits