Hello Fellow Guitarist!

My name is Joshua Henare Rogers and I am the creator of the NBN Guitar Essentials Primer for Beginners.

My goal is to provide you with additional tools that can help you overcome the plateaus, gear limitations, feelings of inadequacy that most of us experience at one time or another.

Let your fingers fly!

This module is all about applying what you have learned so far to real world songs that many people in the western world are familiar with.

I direct you to the NBN Guitar YouTube channel to further your learning. There you will find a selection of songs that have been specifically created for this course.

All of the songs use the G – Em – C – D7 chord progression and the 4/4 time signature. The strumming and finger picking patterns that you have mastered can all be used.

In this module you are going to learn your first scale – G major. You will also learn to relate the terms ascending and descending to scales. We will also develop an understanding of rest strokes and free strokes or apoyando and tirando. We will also use the annular finger for the first time.

Lastly, we will begin using the 4^th finger of the fretting hand.

In this module we will learn alternate picking with the index and middle fingers using the G major scale over two octaves.

In this module you are going to learn your first song – Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven. You will also learn what a key signature is, sharp and natural signs, 1^st and 2^nd time symbols, quavers or eighth notes, and the effect of a dot behind a note.

On top of this you will also learn the A7 chord and how to play along or accompany someone by learning two different guitar parts for Ode to Joy.

In this module will learn how to play a piece of music called Malagueña Facil, two new notes on the 6^th string, the 3/4 time signature, a bit of theory called inverted pedal point, and how to play confidently with other musicians.

This module introduces us to our first riff inside a chord progression knows as 12 Bar Blues. We will also learn a new version of the A7 and D7 chords with new fingerings, and a slight modification of the E major chord to E7 that we learned in module 12 for Malagueña. We will explore playing the riff with two strings at the same time.

Lastly, we’ll take a look at a new beam that joins four quavers together.

In this module we will be learning our first stretching exercises. These exercises act as a precursor to learning the full version of G, Em, and C that we covered in the first few modules. We will revisit pivoting and preparation, ending with a list of additional songs that can be played with the progression.