A look at the guitar notes, chords and scales you'll be learning

Introduction

Getting Started: A Couple Of things You Need For A Good Start

Strings And Things: Guitar Construction Basics And Tuning

The Major Scale: The Source, All The Theory You Need For Now

About Practicing And Time Management: Practice Session Plans

Time For A little Bit On Using The Fretboard Diagrams In This Book

The Pentatonic Scale: 1,2,3,5 And 6 Of The Major Scale

Diatonic Triads: Where Do Chords And Chord Progressions Come From?

Movable Major Chord Forms: A Good Start For Your Chord Vocabulary

Open Chords: Treat The Nut Just Like Another Fret

Movable Minor Chords

Key Changes Are Easier On Guitar: Moving Shapes Around

Octaves I: Find The Name Of Any Note On The Guitar From The E Or A String

Relative Minor: Demystified

Minor Scale: Relative Minor, Natural Minor, Aeolian Mode, Same Thing

The Minor Pentatonic Scale: It’s Relative Too

The Blues Scale: Minor Pentatonic With A Flatted 5th

Triad Inversions: The Big Picture A Little At A Time

Seventh Chords: Explained – Just Add Another 3rd

A Couple Of Movable Seventh Chords

Four Blues Progressions: Basic 12 Bar Plus Chord Substitutions

The Diminished Seventh Chord: Motion Potion

Blues Scale Inverted: Major Pentatonic With A Flatted 3rd

Dominant 9th Chords: Substitute for Dominant 7th Chords Anytime

Chord Scales: Chords That Sound Like Scales

Dominant Seventh Chords: Inversions Using 12 fingerings

The Jam Along CD: Time To Apply What You Have Learned!

Appendix A - Additional Session Practice Plans

See a sample of the guitar fretboard theory you will be learning