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First Steps - Absolute Beginners with Andrew Cockburn
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58 minutes
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| 1 | The First Day (5:58
minutes) First steps is a series of beginner videos that will take you step by step from the very first day, and launch you on your guitar career! |
| 2 | The Grand Tour (9:18
minutes) We take a look around the guitar and learn what all the bits and pieces are, and what they do. |
| 3 | Let Us Play (10:08 minutes)
Lets see how we fret notes and pick the strings. |
| 4 | Note This Well (10:41
minutes) We'll take a look at what notes are, and where on the guitar to find them. |
| 5 | Reading & Writing (7:44
minutes) We take a look at tabs and how to read them. |
| 6 | The Scales of Justice (14:18
minutes) Scales are the building block of lead and rhythm playing - in this lesson we'll start to understand what a scale is and how to practice them. |
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Basic Chords with David O'Toole
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11 minutes
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| 1 | Guitar Chords Lesson 1 -
key of C (2:30 minutes) This first part covers the basic chord group from the family "C". These are possibly the easiest chord shapes - as well as the most commonly used |
| 2 | Chords - key of G (1:05
minutes) There's only one barre chord to play in this one, the B minor, so it's an easy enough one to pick up for beginners. Most of the time you won't hear the m7b5 chord being used in songs as it isn't a very strong sounding chord. |
| 3 | Chords - key of D (1:45
minutes) D is a very popular guitar key with simple-to-add D embellishments such as and D sus2 (used in the outro) and Sus4 (covered later). Contains two barre chords. |
| 4 | Chords - key of E (1:11
minutes) E is a popular key and it uses the lowest E note available on a standard tuned guitar, and is a powerful Rock and Blues key standard. |
| 5 | Chords - key of F (1:48
minutes) The key of F is not used as often for guitar because it has a lot of barre chords and not a lot of ringing open string ones. It can be a difficult key for beginners uncomfortable with barre chords. |
| 6 | Chords - key of A (1:04
minutes) A is a very popular guitar key with the 3 main chords A D E - which are easy to play, and all feature the open strings. This gives the key a very full sound on the guitar. There's more songs out there in A than you can shake a stick! |
| 7 | Chords - key of B (1:46
minutes) B is a key that is not used too often on the guitar because of the barre chords - and not too many open chords. |
