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Lead Guitar Fundamentals – First Half

Welcome / Course Introduction (Developing Tone, Technique & Vocabulary)

No accompanying PDF material is required for this lesson. Please view the lesson video.

Holding The Pick


Right Hand Angle & Position


Achieving Good Tone & Sound – Right Hand Requirement


Achieving Good Tone & Sound – Left Hand Requirement


Introduction to Gypsy Jazz Guitar Picking Technique


Gypsy Jazz Guitar Picking Technique – Exercises

The exercises given in the lesson video are notated below. Please remember that each

downstroke must be a rest stroke.

These exercises are intended to be simple and involve the picking hand only. This way

you can focus exclusively on getting comfortable with gypsy jazz picking technique.

Applying Gypsy Jazz Guitar Picking To Melodies – 2 Lessons: Avalon & Dark Eyes (Les Yeux Noirs)

On the next page you will find charts for the songs Avalon and Dark Eyes (Les Yeux Noirs).

These charts include the chords and melody for the song. The melody is notated in both

TAB and standard notation. You will also find picking directions written above each note.

Please use these charts in conjunction with the video lessons Applying Gypsy Jazz Guitar

Picking To Melodies – Avalon and Applying Gypsy Jazz Guitar Picking To Melodies – Dark

Eyes (Les Yeux Noirs).

(Melody continues on the next page)

(Avalon melody continued)

Developing A Vocabulary For Improvising – Triad Arpeggios & Other Tools


D Minor Triad Arpeggio - 6th & 5th String Roots

F Major Triad Arpeggio - 6th & 5th String Roots

Moving Arpeggios Around - Using Triad Arpeggios To Map Out The Guitar Neck


Lead Guitar Fundamentals – Second Half

Learning To Improvise - Improvising Around The Melody

(Introduction To The Second Half Of The Course)

The following charts are transcriptions of the improvised melodies demonstrated in the

lesson video.

(Avalon melody continued)

Learning To Improvise - Improvising With Held Chord Shapes

Chord shapes used for Avalon in the lesson video:

Chord shapes used for Dark Eyes in the lesson video:

Ear Training Session #1


'Making The Changes' - Arpeggio Etude - Dark Eyes (Les Yeux Noirs)

On the following page you will find a full transcription of the etude found in the lesson

video.



'Making The Changes' - Arpeggio Etude - Avalon

On the following pages you will find a full transcription of the etude found in the lesson

video.



Turning Arpeggios Into Phrases - Using Space & Adding Rhythmic Interest


Turning Arpeggios Into Phrases - Articulation (Using Vibrato & Bends)

Turning Arpeggios Into Phrases - Embellishing Chord Tones (Chromatic Approach & Enclosures)

Turning Arpeggios Into Phrases - Phrase Continuity (Connecting Your Musical Phrases)

Diminished Arpeggio - 6th & 5th String Roots

Multi Purpose Arpeggio (Mi6/Mi7b5/Dom9th)- 6th & 5th String Roots

Turning Arps Into Phrases - 2 New Etudes - Avalon & Dark Eyes (Les Yeux Noirs) On the following pages you will find a full transcription of the etude found in the lesson video.

Some Quick Hints To Begin Creating Your Own Phrases


Well Done On Finishing The Course - Concluding Points & Where To From Here / Transcribing


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