Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to The Guitar
Chapter 2 Notes on your guitar neck
Chapter 3 Tuning the guitar
Chapter 4 Notes on the entire neck - the 5 boxes
Chapter 5 Matching Fingers and the 5 Boxes
Chapter 6 Minimum Motion
Chapter 7 Picking with your Thumb
Chapter 8 The 5 chord - Rock Power Chord
Chapter 9 Major and Minor Steps
Chapter 10 Picking with thumb and first finger
Chapter 11 Playing with “5 chords” and Muting
Chapter 12 Pentatonic Rock Scale
Chapter 13 Mixing 5 chords and Rock Scale
Chapter 14 Picking - Thumb, pointer and middle finger
Chapter 15 Triad Chords
Chapter 16 Major and Minor Chords
Chapter 17 Suspended 2 and 4 Chords
Chapter 18 Augmented and Diminished Chords
Chapter 19 Mixing Chords and Melody notes
Chapter 20 7th and Major 7th Chords
Chapter 21 9th, Major 9th, Add 9 and 6 Chords
Chapter 22 4/4 Music
Chapter 23 3/4 and 5/4 Music
Chapter 24 Picking Thumb, first, middle and third finger
Chapter 25 Reading Music - Whole and Half Notes
Chapter 26 Reading Music - Quarter and Eighth notes
Chapter 27 Reading Music - Sixteenth and Thirty Second notes
Chapter 28 Triplets, Dotted Notes, and 3/4 counting
Chapter 29 Flamenco Picking
Chapter 30 Review notes on the neck
Chapter 31 Reading music - notes on the neck
Chapter 32 The Major Scale
Chapter 33 I IV V - VI II V I - and other chord progressions.
Chapter 34 The Minor Scale
Chapter 35 Relative Major and Minor Scale and combining them
Chapter 36 Passing Notes, Suspended Chords and Key Changes
Chapter 37 Barre Chords
Chapter 38 Mode Scales
Chapter 39 Harmonic Minor Scale
Chapter 40 Melodic Minor Scale
Chapter 41 Jazz Minor Scale
Chapter 42 Byzantine, Arabic, Middle East, Double Harmonic Scale
Chapter 43 Spanish Gypsy/Flamenco Scale
Chapter 44 Spanish 8 Tone Scale
Chapter 45 Indian and Middle East Music.
Chapter 46 Dominant 5 Chords Chains
Chapter 47 Composing - Blues, Rock and Pop Modes
Chapter 48 Mixing it all together.
Chapter 49 Basic Chords Recognition
Chapter 50 Introduction to Baroque Composition
Doug McCarron’s Music Compositions
Fifty Steps to Guitar Greatness by Douglas Scott McCarron. Copyright at the Library of Congress.