The Guitar Roadmap: Skill Builders 🛠️
The Builders Roadmap helps you go beyond the basics. You’ll add new chord voicings, explore scales, improve your timing, and learn to combine techniques into full, expressive pieces. It’s the bridge between foundational skills and the advanced techniques found in the Masters Roadmap.
As you progress through this roadmap, you’ll find Milestone Songs at the end of most modules. These are hand-picked to match your current skill level. You don’t need to finish every lesson to start. Pick a song that inspires you and start playing!
Jump to a Module:
- Module 1: Expanding Chord Knowledge
- Module 2: Strumming, Rhythm, Picking
- Module 3: Scale Application and Navigation
- Module 4: Lead Playing & Soloing
- Module 5: Ear Training and Musicianship
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
- How to Play Major Triads on Guitar – 📄 PDF available
- How to Play Minor Triads on Guitar – 📄 PDF available
- Add 2 Chords Vs Sus 2 Chords: What’s the Difference?
7th chords
- How to Play Shell Chords on Guitar (Chord Charts and Application) – 📄 PDF available
- How to Play the Essential 7th Chords on Guitar – 📄 PDF available
- How to Play Minor 7 b5 Chords (Half Diminished) on Guitar
Chord Theory and Usage
- How to Navigate Chords on the Fretboard (and Finally Escape 1st Position) – 📄 PDF available
- How to Read Slash Chords on Guitar
- How to Play Chord Inversions on the Guitar
- How to Play Chord Progressions in Minor Keys
- How to Play a 12 Bar Blues – 3 Levels of Chords
Chord Library
Major 7 Chords (Click to expand)
Module 1: Milestone Repertoire 🎶
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🏁 MODULE CHECKPOINT
Expanding Chord Knowledge
Check your understanding of triads, 7th chords, slash chords, inversions, fretboard navigation, minor-key progressions, and the 12-bar blues.
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You’ve reached the end of the free starting module. The lessons that follow are included with Pro Membership, so you can keep working through the Roadmap in order without having to figure out what comes next.
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