Guitar Styles
General topics covered for all styles
Picking and strumming techniques.
Reading notation and guitar tablature.
Scale and chord construction.
Specialist styles - Electric Guitar
Blues guitar - blues/pentatonic scales, blues progressions, 7th and 9th chords, bends, vibrato etc.
Rock and Pop Guitar - major/minor chords and scales, fingerboard harmony, arpeggios, popular rhythms, effects useage etc.
Funk Guitar - breakdown of rhythms, specialist chords, focus on significant artists.
Jazz Guitar - advanced chords, fingerboard harmony (CAGED system), relevant scales, common chord progressions, jazz blues, jazz standards taught.
Specialist styles - Acoustic Guitar
Blues and Ragtime Guitar - fingerpicking, open tunings, well known pieces, etc.
Celtic, British Isles Guitar - Irish, Scottish, Welsh tunes, open tunings, specialist time signatures (e.g 12/8, 9/8).
Pop and Folk Guitar - travis picking, music of popular artists, focus on correct strumming techniques..