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  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Playing by ear
  • 1. Anyone can improvise
  • 2. Play on a single string
  • 3. Play across strings
  • 4. Skate around the fretboard
  • 5. Chord melody
  • Part 2: Chords
  • 6. Introduction to Western harmony
  • 7. Practical CAGED grips
  • 8. Major key harmony
  • 9. Minor key harmony
  • 10. Bass lines
  • 11. Seventh chords and drop voicings
  • 12. Shell voicings
  • 13. Color chords
  • 14. Keys and their notes
  • Part 3: Scales
  • 15. Introduction to scales
  • 16. Major scale
  • 17. Minor scales
  • 18. Diatonic modes
  • 19. Pentatonic and blues scales
  • 20. Specialty scales
  • Appendix A: Notes on the fretboard
  • Appendix B: Reading music for guitar
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PART 2:
Chords

  • Chapter 6. Introduction to Western harmony
    A quick overview of the most practical bits of euroclassical harmony.
  • Chapter 7. Practical CAGED grips
    Chord grips for movable CAGED shapes that are actually useful.
  • Chapter 8. Major key harmony
    The basic template of Western music.
  • Chapter 9. Minor key harmony
    A practical approach to minor keys. Relative major and minor, plus the euroclassical "leading tone".
  • Chapter 10. Bass lines
    Tie chord changes together with a smooth bass line.
  • Chapter 11. Seventh chords and drop voicings
    Add a seventh interval to a triad chord to create a little tension. Introducing drop 2 and drop 3 chord voicings.
  • Chapter 12. Shell voicings
    Lightweight seventh chords with just three notes.
  • Chapter 13. Color chords
    Sixth, sus, add, extended, and altered chords provide color and more tension.
  • Chapter 14. Keys and their notes
    Play in any (not every) key.
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