Learn to construct major and minor scales on guitar by applying the whole-step and half-step formula, using examples like C major, D major, and E minor.

Learn how to locate and memorize fretboard notes, starting with tuning and easy string properties. Practice identifying notes on fret one and string two to build memory.

Practice warm-up routines that build technical exercises for acoustic and electric guitar, deepening harmony and theory for intermediate players.

Explore how sharps and flats indicate pitch, how whole and half steps build scales, and how enharmonic spellings like B flat and E flat keep notes correctly notated.

Learn to play scales in multiple keys by applying pentatonic and major/minor patterns across the guitar fretboard, using pattern 1–3 and different starting notes for Ionian and Dorian modes.

Explore relative scales by showing how C# minor relates to E major, and examine key changes in Ozzy Osbourne and Californication, including verse and chorus shifts and power chords.

Explore the relative minor of major scales, using C major as an example. Learn how the same notes create different moods by switching between major and relative minor.

Develop your ear training to identify rhythm patterns, count beats, and feel rhythm as the heartbeat of music, helping you play confidently and communicate with other musicians.

Explore how to build major and minor chords from the major scale by using notes 1, 3, and 5, with guided practice across keys.

Explore alternate base chords and slash chords by adding a bass note to triads, with first and second inversions in D slash F#, C slash E, and C slash G.

Explore layering riffs across four guitars with center and stereo panning for a heavy sound. Tune to D, emphasize sharp four or flat five, and bend notes to double D.

examine slash chords using Elton John's song as example, in e major with bass notes b and g sharp, highlighting third inversion and seventh in bass with a descending motion.

Learn to play all seventh chords on string five by moving shapes up and down fretboard. Practice major seventh, dominant seventh, minor seventh, half-diminished, fully diminished chords, and memorize locations.

Learn to play every major seventh chord on string six using movable shapes, then apply the same patterns to dominant, minor seventh, and diminished chords across the fretboard.

Explore music intervals and learn to apply interval formulas from scale degree one to others, including major second and third, minor intervals with flats, and diminished fifth.

Apply major guitar intervals on the fretboard across strings, hear examples like major second and major seventh, and prepare for solos and improvisation by practicing across all strings.

Explore fretboard interval tricks, including the fifth interval and 1-5 shortcuts, to locate notes quickly and boost improvisation with minor second and whole-step differences.

Explore the most common chord progressions, notably the one-four-five, in major and minor keys, and see how they support melody and harmony in folk, classical, jazz standards, country, and pop.

Explore the chord scale system by mapping diatonic chords in major and minor keys, using C major and C minor to show how lowering the third yields minor tones.

Learn to build a dominant chord (major triad with a minor seventh), use it to prepare a target major seven chord, with examples in E and A.

Explore how dominant chords resolve to the tonic, using I–V examples in keys like E major and C major, with guitar-friendly demonstrations from Elton John and Green Day songs.

Learn the difference between diminished and half-diminished chords, including triads, flat five intervals, and how the minor seventh versus diminished seventh creates each chord; then practice guitar shapes.

Master half diminished and fully diminished chords by flattening the third, fifth, and seventh from a major chord, using two common fingered shapes for jazz and bossa nova.

Master major chords and ninth chords by voicing 1-3-5-7-9, and learn how these chords appear in funk, jazz, and blues.

Explore eleven chords and their relation to ninth chords, and build them from the major scale using the 1, 3, and 5 and the 3, 5, 7, and 11 patterns.

Explore 13th chords in harmony and theory for intermediate guitar players, showing that a 13th chord comprises 1-3-5-7-13 and its connection to the 9th and 11th.

Explore the essential 2-5-1 chord progression across keys, practice in C major with Dm7 G7 C, and see how this shortcut supports jazz standards and songwriting.

Analyze how Red Hot Chili Peppers use a minor scale to craft progressions, riffs, and improvisation, and apply scale construction and seventh-chord formulas in a chosen key.

Analyze songs from Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, and Nirvana using the major scale harmony and identify G major chords, building major, minor, and diminished progressions with power chords where applicable.

Analyze Elton John's Your Song by examining scale degrees, target chords like G major 7 and B minor, and dominant chord progressions with inversions.

Learn the walk this way riff with fingerings: string five open 1–2, string four 2; repeat; then play flat notes on six and four, and practice slowly to fast.

Learn the Lucy in the sky with Diamonds guitar riff by placing fingers on frets 9, 10, and 12 across strings 3, 2, and 1 while letting the notes ring.

Master the Blink-182 what's my age again riff via a four-step pattern using pinky and ring fingers on fret 11 of string 3, then fret 9 on string 5.

Learn to play the Shiny Happy People riff on guitar by focusing on string two, frets seven, five, and two, with vibrato and optional slide, plus practice tips.

Learn to write stronger guitar chord progressions in the key of E major by using 1-4-5 basics, then 2-5-1, and adding dominant and suspended chords while avoiding unstable half-diminished endings.

Learn to turn a chord progression into a guitar arrangement by weaving melody and walking bass, using dominant chords, pentatonic blues notes, and creative chord choices.

Learn to craft chord progressions using sus chords by choosing a key, mixing major and minor chords, and building simple progressions like 1-6-4-5 with optional sus4 voicings.

Learn to compose chord progressions with seventh chords by choosing a key, building simple major/minor harmonies, adding dominant, major seventh, and seventh chords, and using I–V progressions.

Compose three chord progressions in a chosen key, noting a scale and the chord types central to harmony, and practice the techniques you learned in this course.

Practice chord progressions that include dominant chords and rate based chords, applying at least one technique per progression, such as alternate bass chords, while reinforcing harmony theory.

Conclude the course with gratitude and invite questions through the portal form while welcoming topic suggestions for future courses to improve the class.