🎸 Module 1: Guitar Foundations

Start with the essential skills every guitarist needs: how to read tabs, play basic chords, and build finger independence. This module prepares you for smoother transitions and more confident rhythm playing in the next module.

1. How to learn guitar with tabs
2. Master the basic chords on guitar: A beginners guide
3. How to improve switching between chords on guitar (6 tips)
4. 7 Easy Guitar Chord Progressions
5. How to play power chords on guitar

🎸 Module 2: Strumming and Rhythm

Learn how to bring your chords to life with strumming patterns and fingerpicking techniques. This module gives you the rhythmic foundation needed to play full songs and eventually tackle more complex finger-style pieces later on.

1. 7 ways to get better at strumming on guitar
2. 12 Easy strumming patterns for guitar
3. How to finger pick on guitar
4. Master Guitar Fingerpicking Patterns: A comprehensive guide
5. 7 ways to get better at finger picking on guitar
   
   

🎸 Module 3: Notation Essentials

Understand the symbols behind the music. You’ll learn how to read key signatures, time signatures, and common music notation so you can follow arrangements more easily and build stronger musical awareness.

1. Understanding music symbols
2. What are key signatures?
3. How time signatures work
   
   

Other Resources:

• Fingerstyle vs pick – which method is better?

🎸 Module 4: Fretboard and Chord Clarity

Develop fretboard fluency and chord control. These lessons help you recognize notes, master more advanced Major and minor chord shapes across the fretboard, setting you up for scale work and improvisation.

1. 7 Tips to Learn Every Note on the Guitar Fretboard
2. 6 ways to play a Major chord on guitar
3. How to play barre chords on guitar and 5 tips to get better at playing them!
4. How to effectively memorize guitar chords
   
   

Chord Library

Use these individual lessons to build fluency in all common major and minor chord shapes across the fretboard.

🎸 Module 5: Scale Builder

Build a solid scale foundation with Major and minor shapes across the fretboard. You’ll be ready to use these in soloing, improvising, and applying them in songs or more advanced techniques down the road.

1. 5 Essential Major Scale Shapes to Unlock Your Guitar Fretboard
   

Scale Library

Use these Major and minor scale lessons to master shapes and apply them in exercises, songs, or improvisation (more on this in the Builder’s Roadmap).

Other Resources:

• 7 minute guitar practice routine to effectively build your skills!
• 6 tips to improve your guitar playing!

🎸 Module 1: Expanding Chord Knowledge

Build your foundation in triads, 7ths, and sus chords. You’ll learn how to use these shapes to navigate the fretboard and apply them in real musical contexts.

Triads

1. How to play Major Triads on Guitar
2. How to play minor triads on guitar
   

7th chords

4. How to play Shell Chords on guitar (chord charts and application)
5. How to play the essential 7th chords on guitar
6. Add 2 chords vs Sus 2 chords: What’s the difference?
7. How to play minor 7 b5 chords (half diminished) on guitar
   
   

Chord Theory and Usage

8. How to read slash chords on guitar
9. How to play chord progressions in minor keys
10. How to play a 12 bar blues – 3 levels of chords
    
    

Chord Library

🎸 Module 2: Strumming, Rhythm, Picking

Add depth and variety to your playing with advanced picking patterns and rhythm styles. This module helps you bring out more expression and groove in your chord work, preparing you for finger-style arrangements and more complex styles.

1. How to play Travis picking patterns on guitar (with audio and tabs)
2. How to play Bossa Nova rhythms on guitar
   
   

🎸 Module 3: Scale Application and Navigation

Learn how to confidently use pentatonic, blues, and modal scales across the fretboard. You’ll explore melodic movement, develop your improvisation skills, and see how scales connect to the chord structures from earlier modules.

1. A beginners guide to essential guitar scales
2. How to play Pentatonic Scales on Guitar
3. How to play minor pentatonic scales on guitar
4. How to play the Blues Scale on Guitar
5. How to play a minor blues progression on guitar (3 levels)
6. How to practice scales on guitar (8 tips)
   

Scales Library

🎸 Module 1: Advanced Chord Voicings & Harmony

Push your chord vocabulary further with rich voicings, colorful harmonies, and jazz-inspired shapes. You’ll start by expanding your harmonic options, then learn creative voicing techniques, and finally apply them in real songs.

Section 1: Functional & Secondary Chords

1. Understanding secondary chords and how to apply them on guitar
2. Diminished chords
3. How to play augmented chords on guitar

Section 2: Chord Extensions & Jazz Harmony

1. Major 6 chords
2. Minor 6 chords
3. How to build extended chords on guitar
4. How to play jazz guitar chords

Section 3 : Arpeggio Mastery

1. How to play Dominant 7 arpeggios on guitar
2. How to play minor 7 arpeggios on guitar
3. How to play half diminished arpeggios on guitar

Section 4 : Voicing Variations

1. How to play chord inversions on the guitar
2. How to play spread triad chords on guitar
3. How to play drop 2 chords on guitar

Chord Library

🎸 Module 2: Improvisation

Develop expressive soloing techniques using chord tones, modes, and melodic phrasing. This module focuses on improvisation over progressions and unlocks new sounds through scale application and interval training.

Section 1: Improvisation Foundations

1. How to improvise on guitar (6 key concepts)
2. 9 tips to get better at improvising on guitar
3. How to Confidently Solo Over Chord Progressions with Chord Tones On Guitar
4. How to play intervals on guitar

2. Specialty Scales

1. Melodic minor scale
2. Harmonic minor scale
3. How to play diminished scales on guitar
4. Explore the Barry Harris’ Major 6th diminished scale on guitar (with application examples)

Section 3: Exploring Modes

1. Understand the Modes in Music: From Theory to Emotions
2. How to play the Dorian scale on guitar
3. How to play the Phrygian scale on guitar
4. How to play the Lydian scale on guitar
5. How to play the Mixolydian scale on guitar
6. How to play the Altered scale on guitar

Section 4: Phrasing & Licks

1. 9 ways to make your melody lines sound jazzy
2. 7 Jazz and Blues Licks over a Dominant 7 chord

🎸 Module 3: Composition and Arrangement

Learn how to connect melodies to chords, harmonize lines, and structure your own arrangements. Whether you’re creating original pieces or arranging covers, this module gives you tools to write with clarity and emotion.

1. How to harmonize a melody on guitar using 3rds and 6ths
2. How to connect a melody and chords on guitar
3. 7 steps to start composing your own music
4. 3 simple steps to write your ideas on sheet music