LESSON 11/10/22
These Days - Jackson Browne
LESSON 10/24/22
Smooth - Santana
LESSON 10/10/22
Smooth - Santana
LESSON 10/3/22
Smooth - Santana
lesson 9/12/22
Smooth - Santana
LESSON 8/22/22
Johnny Cash - Hurt
David Bowie - Space Oddity
lesson 8/15/22
Johnny Cash - Hurt
LESSON 8/8/22
David Bowie - Space Oddity
lesson 5/30/22
David Bowie - Space Oddity
lesson 4/25/22
Pentatonic Modes 1-5 Review
LESSON 4/4/22
Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
lesson 3/28/22
12 Bar Blues - Pentatonic Improvise
lesson 3/21/22
Dominant 7 Arpeggios A7,D7
Mode 1 Pentatonic
Next Week: 12 Bar Blues
lesson 3/7/22
Dominant 7 Arpeggios A7,D7,E7
lesson 2/28/22
Slow Blues
Losing my religion
lesson 2/7/22
Losing My Religion
lesson 1/31/22
Losing My Religion
lesson 1/27/22
Identify root, 3rd, and 5th in the Am chord. Hitting A,C & E in Mode 1 along with backing track.
lesson 1/6/22
Rainbow - Since you Been Gone
lesson 12/9/21
George Harrison - Beware of Darkness Chords
lesson 11/4/21
Radiohead - Creep
From now until 12/3 we will be perfecting this song for performance.
You must practice this EVERYDAY for an hour along with the song. If you are not driving the people in your house crazy, you’re not playing it enough!!
lesson 10/21/21
Radiohead - Creep
LESSON 9/30/2021
Slow Blues -
lesson 9/30/2021
Slow Blues -
lesson 9/9/2021
Understanding Rhythm and Notes
lesson 9/2/2021
Practice the chorus strumming pattern outlined in todays lesson.
lesson 8/26/2021
Develop Song Structure
Work through writing a chorus for Song in C Major
Try different strumming patterns and chord changes
8/19/2021
Introduced melodies to Song in C
Homework is to come up with a set of chords and rhythm for the hook (Chorus).
LESSON 8/12/2021
Today we began writing a song in C. We started with putting a chord progression for the verse in place. Click on the link for the chords.
lesson 7/29/2021
Refresh on Major/ Minor scales
Speed Test - Minor Pentatonic at 218 Bpm
lesson 7/22/2021
Suspended Chords (Click for Pdf of Lesson)
LESSON 7/15/2021
Major and Minor 7th Chord Pattern
lesson 7/8/2021
Visualizing the Modes of the Major Scale
lesson 7/1/2021
Improvisation in Am
lesson 5/17/2021
5 String Arpeggio Intro
lesson 6/10/2021
5 String Arpeggio Intro
lesson 5/27/2021
Introductory to Sweep Picking
lesson 5/13/2021
Triads 1-3 Using RHCP Zephyr Song
lesson 5/6/2021
Triads strings 1-3
Theory - Building Triads 1
lesson 4/26/2021
Am pentatonic modes 1 and 2 in triplets
lesson 4/22/2021
Playing Am pentatonic in 8th notes
lesson 4/8/2021
Continue honing the D Dorian Chord progression over the rhythm you wrote in class.
Play other alternate 8 beat rhythms of your making to see what sounds good.
lesson 4/1/2021
Memorize all A notes
Cocaine rhythm with Guitar Pro
Learn your octaves - What’s the pattern?
Write your own rhythm using 8 beats.
Extra credit - change chords halfway through the rhythm (Only try this if you are fluent in the rhythm you create!!)
lesson 3/25/2021
Eric Clapton - Cocaine Intro Riff
lesson 3/18/2021
Lydian Mode
Finding the A notes in the modes
lesson 3/11/2021
Review
lesson 3/1/2021
Visualizing the Modes
Songs to Perform:
Down By Th River
Who do You Love
Lawyers Guns and Money
Feelin Alright
Cocaine
lesson 2/25/2021
Review Tom Petty Lick, Major Scale
Next Week Begin Modes in F, start in Phrygian. Song list for performance?
lesson 2/18/2021
Tom Petty - Free Fallin
lesson 1/28/2021 - 2/4/2021
Expanding the major scale in G
Write your own chord strumming pattern
lesson 1/21/2021
Practice changing from open to barre chords in key of G
Ionian Mode in Key of C & G
lesson 1/14/2021
Major and Minor 7th chords root note E String
Pentatonic Mode 1 & 2 - Identifying the A, D, & E notes in Mode 1
lesson 1/7/2021
Pentatonic Mode 1 & 2 - Identifying the A & D notes in the modes
Finger Exercises
lesson 12/3/20
Understanding the modes and relation to pentatonic - Improvising using Ionian, Dorian, and pentatonic.
LESSON 12/3/20
IONIAN AND DORIAN 2 STRING PAIRING
lesson 11/23/20
Dorian Mode Phrasing - D Dorian Backing Track
lesson 11/19/20
Dorian Mode
LESSON 11/12/20
Am Backing Track on Chordify - Memorizing where the notes are “A” and “E”
lesson 11/5/20
Am Backing Track on Chordify - Memorizing where the notes are “A” and “E”
lesson 10/29/20
Focus on Am pentatonic
lesson 10/22/20
Buddy Holly - That’ll Be The Day Intro and verse
lesson 10/8/2020
A string Root Major and minor 7th barre chords
lesson 9/24/20
Minor pentatonic combining first 2 string all modes
lesson 9/17/20
Intro to C major Key, sister Am key, and Major/Minor Chord patterns
Jam in AM - 1,4,5,6
LESSON 9/10/20
Pentatonic Scale Mode 1 - 5
lesson 8/13/20
Bell Bottom Blues Rhythm
lesson 8/6/20
Guns and Roses - Patience
lesson 7/30/20
Bell Bottom Blues Rhythm
lesson 7/23/20
Review Triads - B&E
Lesson 7/16/20
Review Hey Joe
Review Bell Bottom Blues
LESSON 7/9/20
Review from last week
lesson 7/2/2020
Hey Joe for Beginners
LESSON 6/25/20
Triads and Arpeggios B & E on Strings 1-3
lesson 6/18/20
Review Previous Lesson
String Note memorization A,B,C
LESSON 6/11/2020
Triads - Strings 1-3
Island in the sun intro
LESSON 3/12/2020
Bell Bottom Blues Pre Chorus and Chorus Rhythm
lesson 3/5/2020
Bell Bottom Blues Transition Chords and Rhythm
lesson 2/20/20
Goo Goo Dolls Slide continue
Start with Intervals of major scale
lesson 2/13/20
Goo Goo Dolls Slide Rhythm
lesson 2/6/20
Chord Change Training - Goal 86 CPM
Em to G, A, B7, D , Dm
C to A7, B7, D, &Dm
lesson 1/30/20
Chord Change Training - Goal 86 C, G
lesson 1/23/20
lesson 1/16/19
Behind Blue Eyes Barrs 5-8
lesson 1/2/20
Behind Blue Eyes - GP7 Barrs 1-4
lesson 12/5/19 - 12/19/19
Carol of the Bells (Click Here For Guitar Pro File)
lesson 11/14/19
Drummer Boy
lesson 10/29/19
6th Intervals/ Exercise 1 Love Me Tender
lesson 9/12/19
Hey Jude - Barre Chords
lesson 8/29/19
Ionian and Dorian Review
lesson 8/8/19
Wonderwall entire song
Em to B7 chord change
lesson 7/25/19
Wonderwall Pre Chorus
lesson 7/11/19
Wonderwall
Lesson 7/2/19
Bo diddly rhythm with chords in the key of E - 1,5,6,4
lesson 6/29/19
Not Fade Away Rhythm - Playing along with lead
lesson 6/28/19
Not Fade Away Rhythm - solidify muting technique
lesson 6/13/19
Not Fade Away Rhythm - variations and muting
lesson 6/6/19
Not Fade Away Rhythm
lesson 5/30/19
Voodoo Child Intro
lesson 5/23/19
Ionian mode in 3rds review
Major pentatonic at 130 bpm
lesson 4/11/19
Lawyers Guns and Money beginning rhythm
lesson 4/4/19
Man on the Moon - Entire Song
lesson 3/28/19
Man on the Moon through the chorus
lesson 3/21/19
Free Fallin Rhythm
Man on the Moon Rhythm
lesson 3/14/19
Free Fallin Rhythm
LESSON 2/28/19
Intro to writing songs with the pentatonic scale
lesson 2/21/19
Free Fallin - F Chord
lesson 2/14/19
Pentatonic 1 & 2 review.
Begin Mode 3 during this weeks practice.
Lesson 2/7/19
lesson 1/31/19
Pentatonic Modes 3,4,&5
lesson 1/24/19
Pentatonic Major
lesson 1/17/19
Pentatonic minor 1st position
Straight Pick@ 200 Bpm
Hammer on Pull Off @ 80 Bpm
lesson 1/12/19
Pentatonic Minor Scale
lesson 1/10/19
Joan Jet - I Love Rock n’ Roll
lesson 1/3/19
Dorian Mode
lesson 12/20/18
Carol of the Bells Part 2
lesson 12/14/18
Barre chord movement A & E string
A string root barre chord practice
lesson 12/8/18
Review of the Major Scale and the corresponding major and minor chords
lesson 11/15/18
D major 5 string arpeggio - starting with pinky
lesson 11/8/18
Runnin’ with the Devil Rhythm
lesson 11/1/18
Dom 7th Barre Chords. Practice changing between barre chords
lesson 10/4/18
Barre Chord Workout - E & A String Combined
lesson 9/27/18
Sublime - Santeria
lesson 9/22/18
Lesson 5 - Sunrise
lesson 9/13/18
Lesson 4 Starry Night
lesson 9/6/18
Intro to 3 string arpeggios
lesson 9/1/18
Comfortably Numb strumming in 16th.
lesson 8/30/18
Practice Comfortably Numb - Entire Song
lesson 8/23/18
lesson 8/16/18
Comfortably Numb Chord Progression. Practice with the song.
lesson 8/9/18
Lesson 2 Irish Spring Time
lesson 7/26/18
Lesson 1 Intro to Power Chords
Play everything w/ metronome
lesson 7/19/18
Major Scale - Practice proper picking pattern
Lesson 22 Green Valley
lesson 7/5/18
"Wish You Were Here" Chord Progression
lesson 6/28/18
David,
Below is the lesson for the week. Listen to the MP3 below to hear how to play correctly. Try to play along once you are comfortable with the material.
lesson 6/21/18
Continue Lesson 11 with a metronome. Play SLOWLY at first!
Practice Comfortably Numb chord progression....
SLOWLY AT FIRST!!
Keep Your right hand moving, even when you're not engaging the strings.
Nice clean chord changes
lesson 6/14/18
Lesson 11 - Hammer On's and Pull Offs
lesson 5/31/17
Chord Strumming Lessons and the attached picture is the strumming pattern for "Knockin' on Heavens Door"
lesson 5/15/18
David
Thanks again for choosing to learn to play the guitar with Happy Fingers Guitar Lessons! Try to practice at least 60 minutes per day.
Lesson - Major Scale (Ionian Mode) in the key of "C"
REMEMBER:
Try to make the notes have a clear sound when you play them.
Remember to keep your thumb positioned where it is comfortable and perpendicular to the neck of the guitar.