Week One

• Course overview
• How to read tab
• A minor pentatonic lead scale, first position
• Guitar Pro app explained (play along with tab and backing tracks at any tempo)
• How to tune your guitar without a digital tuner
• How to tune with a digital tuner
• Holding the pick correctly
• Power chords on the fifth and sixth strings
• Your first jam, play along with backing track
• How to create a hard rock sound with your equipment
• Distortion pedal / amp master volume
• Fretting hand technique
• Power chords on fourth and fifth strings
• Parts of the guitar

Week Two

• How to read chord diagrams
• Jam along track
• Chord progressions, octaves explained
• Sharps and flats
• Note names and the 5^th and 6^th strings
• Guitar Licks
• Picking technique
• Legato and staccato
• 2^nd pattern of the Pentatonic Scale
• First two Pentatonic patterns played together
• Suggested songs for this level

Week 3

• Three open chords
• Jam along track
• Chord diagrams
• Chord playing technique
• Complete arrangement of the song “Onward”
• Third pattern of A minor Pentatonic
• First three Pentatonic patterns together
• Your goals and level of commitment

Week 4

• Note name review
• How to memorize note names
• Note values
• Time signature
• Eighth note rest
• Scale sequence explained
• Four lead licks
• How to play licks over progression
• The fourth Pentatonic pattern
• A review of all four patterns

Week 5

• Sounding each string of chords
• Barre chords explained
• The barre chord trick
• Speed and accuracy tips
• Riffs explained
• Guitar setup
• Fifth Pentatonic pattern
• Review of all 5 patterns
• End of Level 1