1. Your Body: Awareness and Feldenkrais for Guitarists

Mini Strumming Session with Margot Schaal: From Grungy & Amateur to Smooth & Pro in Less than 15 minutes

Positions and Options for Sitting and Standing

2. Your Guitar

Parts of a Guitar

Why You Should Tune to 444 instead of 440

Choosing a Guitar

Types of Guitars

Size and Shape Matters

Equiptment

Right Hand Technique

Strumming Techniques for Different Sound Effects

Intro to Fingerpicking

Getting Creative with Strumming Patterns

Left Hand Technique

Position and Strength

Strengthening Your Wrist, Hand, and Fingers

Where the Heck Does My Thumb Go?

Basic Chords

3 Easy Chords You Can Learn in 15 Minutes: A D E

Intro to Harmony and Transposition

Hundreds of Songs You Can Play with 3 Chords

Major Chords Shapes: G C

Minor Chord Shapes: Am Em

Hundreds of Songs You Can Play with 4-5 Chords

Transposing Any Song to Fit Your Voice

A Deeper Look into Harmony

CAGED Moveable Chord Shapes

Using 5 Chord Shapes Up and Down the Fretboard

Using Triads on the First 3 Strings

Scales

12 Bar Blues

How to Jam with the Pros

Riffs

Soloing

Managing a Solo on Stage

Timing of Solos

Communicating Solos

Gigging on Guitar

What to Bring to Every Gig

Communcating with Your Bandmembers on Stage

How to Run a Successful Sound Check

Communicating with the Sound Engineer

Communicating with the Staff

Communicating with the Audience

Singing Backup Vocals

Maintenance and Care

Tuning Your Guitar

Setting Up Your Guitar

Cold and Hot Weather and How to Protect Your Guitar

Humidifiers and Cases

The Do's and Don'ts of Traveling with a Guitar

Size and Shape Matters

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